so true 😔😔😔 there were so many ways to make the story more interesting but it’s always the shitty crown prince 😔 also if they rlly needed a romance the knight was good hell even raphael!!! he was so cool!!! but i wanted the people who traumatized her to suffer :/
They think girls only want angsty rich guys with power, thus the endgame is almost always gonna be the crown prince or a duke with mommy-daddy-issues (or dead ex issues in the case of Shadow Queen I guess). Unfortunately no money in the world can fix the trauma caused by their abusive husbands. I just wish it wouldn't get brushed away so easily. I understand that people go all the time back to their toxic exes and I think it could have been interesting from a psychological standpoint, but if they really wanted to go this route they should have despicted it as trauma bonding.
I don't like how common this trope in isekais is where the love interest or the family of the heroine only abused her because they were poisoned or under the magic spell of a demon, because to me it suggests that it's never their fault, it suggests that abusers always have a good reason why they abuse u and if you are forgiving and kind-hearted and just try hard enough you can find the reason and heal them, which is total nonsense btw. Sometimes awful people are just awful people.
The Abandoned Empress could have been so good if it was a story about a survivor letting go of her toxic ex and pursuing her own happiness. Or getting her revenge. I have never seen an Isekai were the heroine overthrows the crown prince and makes him suffer in return. The author really missed the chance to create a groundbreaking manhwa.
The perfect revenge would be Ruvelis watching how he slowly loses everything to Carsein, not because Carsein takes it from him but because Tia chooses to give it to him: the throne, the support of house Monique, her trust and her love. Cause he's the better man. And everything Ruve could have had plays out in front of him.
Another scenario I would like to see in fanfics is where Aristia does a coup. Imagine Ruve laying on the ground dying and calling her name, but Tia doesn't even bother to turn around and just walks away from him. That's how much he'd be worth to her. Not even a single glance.
Or he confesses his love to her and for a moment she's silent and then stares at him and says something along the lines of "I loved you once but not anymore". Basically she's rubbing it in his face that he was the one who destroyed their future together.
