I don't understand stand why people are shocked that there's so much hatred and disgust for Ruveliss like we as an audience didn't have a front row seat to his cruelty towards Aristia
That prologue was like 6 whole chapters.
Usually prologues in OI are like 1 to half a chapter at best. And then to see Aristia fucking traumatized, having panic attacks and nightmares about this man.
And you want others to be excited that a victim went back to her abuser because he apologized.
It's not enough.
It'll never been enough.
Also who the fuck cares about her other love interest? I would have rathered her ended alone and happy then be with that Jackass
Summary: The genius of the sword, Carsein De Rass comes across the one and only Aristia La Monique. After hearing the rumors about her he couldn't help but be curious, now he attempts to learn more about the mysterious woman, trying to gift her the glow her eyes are missing.
Aristia strolled through the emperor’s garden. She had missed the times her and Ruve, her ex fiancé, would stroll with each other up the path, she missed the times when the back of his hand would accidently stroke hers, the warmth that she could never get enough of. The one thing she had ever wanted in life was him. Except her feelings were never mutual.
But that didn’t matter now.
It had already been a week after her father had been executed. The moment she learned about his trial she immediately rushed to see the emperor, but it had already been too late.
It felt embarrassing to imagine her face. Her eyes twitching with her mouth agape. She wanted to die just thinking about it. After all that she went through only for him. For her other half, yet he could never return that desiring affection.
She still remembered Ruve’s sharp words “Your father has already been executed.” the way he spoke so coldly to her shattered her heart. All that she had ever wanted was to be loved by him, yet here he was, staring at her as if it would be her death next.
She couldn’t move at all. The last few moments of her consciousness went through in the loudest silence. She felt a sharp pain sting her abdomen before she suddenly fell. The last thing her mind could recall is very quiet, echoing laughter reflecting around the room. Feeling tears streaming down her eyes, she looked at Ruve, who was staring down at her with a psychotic look in his eyes. She knew now that there would be no way that she’d ever forgive him. Her father was her supporter this whole time, ‘till the last moment. If only she’d noticed that love and support earlier. Now, her only wish was to turn back time and change her fate. But would that day ever come?
The worst part of the experience was the pain that she had withheld in herself just couldn’t be contained any longer. From being thrown from the empress’ position, to being humiliated by all of high society, to even having her only root of heart’s warmth carry on without her. The worst part was her late realization of her real trauma. For the last few seconds of her consciousness, she had just realized how badly she was ruined. How could she ever regain her happiness when the only source of it that she had ever had was the man standing above her? The one who hurt her the most by twisting, and pulling her love’s strings until they broke.
She knew. She knew that she would never, in her life, forgive this man.
The only action that happened after was absolute darkness.
A few moments later, she awoke with nothing but a depressing pity for herself. She had rested for the next few days until the Foundation Day celebrations were rolling around the corner. Although she wanted to avoid it, she knew she had to face both Jieun and Ruve.
As soon as she arrived there, the tension in the room was different than the past. She still remembered the look the both of them gave her. Ruve stared at her with cold eyes. The cold eyes that she wanted to stop from looking at her. While Jieun stared at her with both resentment and pity.
But she didn’t care. She couldn’t bring herself to care. No matter how many times they would try to humiliate her she wouldn’t care. She still recalled Ruve’s touch, holding her down with his cold hands. Just thinking of it made her shiver.
But now, after bearing the trauma through her mind, she had to return to the imperial palace to complete her work.
As she turned around and began to walk away, she started rethinking her father’s last words towards her. It felt like the acknowledgement that she never was given from anyone. All she wanted was to ask him what those words meant, but it seems like she’d never find out.
Before she could regain her composure a sudden bang struck both her mind and body.
She fell on the floor, absolutely dumbfounded to what just happened, until she heard a sudden voice of a man call out to her.
“Hey! Are you alright?! Damn, look I’m really sorry I’ll call the palace doctor right away!!”
As she looked up to discover the unfamiliar figure she had to take time to adjust to the blinding light shining down on them. As soon as she could finally see she quickly noticed the man’s visible features. He had spiky crimson hair, with sky blue eyes beaming down on her.
She suddenly spotted his thick clothing which appeared to be a knights uniform judging by the sword and fabric choice in the clothing.
It took her a second to register who this familiar looking man was.
Carsein De Rass, the genius of the sword, the top swordsman in the country who won many prizes due to his amazing accomplishments in wielding the sword in this country. Except, why was he heading to the imperial palace?
Knights usually stayed outside of the palace grounds unless an emergency happened which required them to see the emperor.
He quickly offered her his hand but she shook her head, not wanting to disarrange his plans. He looked at her with a confused look, he seemed to expect her to take his hand but didn’t say anything about it.
“Hey, if you want of course, I can walk you to your destination. It’s the least I could do.” he said while scratching his neck, visibly flustered.
Aristia shook her head, “It’s alright, I can walk myself. You should hurry if you’re here to see his majesty.”
He took another look at her, noticing her eyes which showed him something unusual. Slightly furrowing his eyebrows he stared at them again, trying to confirm what he was seeing. 'Those beautiful eyes, why do they have such a depressing shadow?’ he thought to himself.
He felt a painful aura coming from her, as if she was holding in something big. The way her eyes would lazily stare at him in a tired manner, it looked like she would pass out any minute.
“Look, you really don’t look good. I’ll take you back, trust me I’m not in a rush at all.” but as soon as he reached out to grab her hand she suddenly flinched, falling to the ground, and staring at him with mortified eyes.
He was shocked by this action, but he knew something must’ve happened to cause her to act like this towards him.
“Hey, it’s alright. I promise I won’t hurt you, please just come with me. You really don’t look well, please?” He reassured her, and it did seem to work.
As they walked together the tension between them finally settled down causing Tia to become more comfortable with him.
-time skip-
After he dropped her off he decided to stop by to ask to discuss with the emperor about her.
As he was about to knock on the large door he suddenly heard something.
“How do you know if that cold woman will stay in her place? You killed her father for god’s sake! We should get rid of her soon, or else who knows what she’ll do?!” a man’s loud voice rang all the way behind the door.
Suddenly, another man’s voice answered in a calm but mocking voice, “It’s alright. She knows her place, ha. She actually thought the spot of empress was hers to begin with? Would you like me to inform you how she acts when she’s forced in bed? Haha, a complete whore. Not caring that I have a wife, she actually thought I loved her. In fact, have you seen her? Those 'golden eyes that shine pure gold’ and her 'shining white hair that looks as if made from silk?’ please. I don’t know what all these men see in her.”
Carsein’s eyes widened at his words, all those traits compared to those of that woman. He had thought he heard of her, but now he was certain. This was Aristia La Monique.
He leaned back from the door then left, so many questions that were waiting for answers, yet would he ever get those answers?
He had already decided he would save her. He would save Aristia La Monique
I hate whenever someone hates on Abandoned Empress, that’s because it’s always the same excuse “how dare the author disregard Tia’s trauma and still make her end up with Ruve” which is the dumbest argument ever since that’s not even what happened.
*spoilers ahead*
We gotta understand Tia was worried about the past would repeat itself, except that second timeline Ruve actually looked out for her and her wellbeing. He wanted her to feel comfortable with him. In one of the early half of the chapters shows that he left Tia alone just so that she could rest after going into psychological shock.
After Tia came back to her 10 year old body her trauma was portrayed in almost all of season 1. Her motive is to change her fate and to not have to suffer ever again and having 0 worry about death. Let me remind you that being strong also applies to the mind. Ruve and Tia interact more in this timeline due to their marriage which helps Tia learn more about this Ruve. Mind you, Tia taking revenge on anyone for doing something to her that happened later on wouldn’t be justified, since, as she even said, she had already changed her fate.
After reading the letter Ruve didn’t even want to disturb Tia because he cared about her, and he knew that if she saw him she’d fall into distress and possibly have a panic attack from all the trauma. He deeply respected Tia and her boundaries even at one point deciding that if his feelings towards her aren’t mutual that he’d move on and leave her alone.
Her trauma wasn’t dismissed from the story, but we also have to understand that her trauma was caused by a different person. Tia saw how this Ruve dealt differently with different situations, and how he had a whole different personality/character from the other Ruve, and so she eventually warmed up to him and felt safe around him.
He gave her the love and happiness that she had always desired because he was a different person. 99.9 percent of the fandom had either dropped the story because of a spoiler, even though there were SO many interesting and fun events in the story. And other people who don’t understand the meaning of timelines spoiled it while putting a bad review on it because they disliked the ending.
Poor author-chan got death threats because of the ending (ง'̀-'́)ง
*My* Ranking of Male Love Interests In Manwha (Part 1)
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Marry Me Tier: Erden Halstead (My Secretly Hot Husband), Hades Louvremont (I Became the Male Lead’s Step Mother), Lucas (Who Made Me A Princess)
Boyfriend by Big Time Rush Tier: Carsein de Rass (Abandoned Empress)
Meh Tier: Derrick Eckhart (Death is the Only Ending for the Villainess), Izana (Virtues of a Villainess), Vinter Bernandi (Death is the Only Ending for the Villainess)
Absolutely Not Tier: Jake Podebrat (Beware of the Villainess), Peacock Melody (Beware of the Villainess), Reynold Eckhart (Death is the Only Ending for the Villainess), Ruvellis (Abandoned Empress)
Guilty Pleasures Tier: Allendis de Verita (Abandoned Empress), Ian Basilios (Beware of the Villainess), Kallisto Regulus (Death is the Only Ending for the Villainess)
*This are all just my opinions and you are free to disagree with me!!*
It’s been a while since I have update my last post and it’s this piece of a beautiful artwork of a webtoon’s fault 😂💕💕 For some reason, I was hooked on manhwas these past months and I would like to share this with you:
The Abandoned Empress got me jelly because of the unique plot aside from the backlash on this ending. (Sorry, I won’t spoil you)^^ it’s about A beautiful and a genius intellect noble young girl named Aristia La Monique who hails from a noble House of Monique and her Dad was an influential Marquess in the Castina Empire (The Setting of the Story) and was been destined to become the future empress and one day, A girl from another world named Jieun stole her place at the prince’s side named Ruveliss (the crown prince) and everything went messed because of a misunderstanding and she was executed (sadly) but god Vita pity her and she went back in time to fixed everything and even try to avoid the guy to marry who will kill her soon?
Overall, the entire plot was great and the characters are great as well. It’s currently in Season 3 of the manhwa so pls check this one out! If you asked who is my shipped? Obviously, the two pics above: Ruveliss x Aristia. At first, I shipped her with Allendis but he’s a psycho and obsessed with Tia unhealthily and Carsein? I find them a good match but its my least fave pairing.
Asked why this shipped above? It’s because these two are the main focus of the series. It’s started out with a betrayal and misunderstandings in the past timeline and when she got back in time, their relationship slowly started to get blossom but there are many ups and downs and they kept on holding on to their feelings for one another.
It’s so cute to see that Jeremia and Tia were the only ones in Ruve’s life who had ever acknowledged him for his personality and actually cared about him. They were like his first friends
*sighs* *wipes tears* *tries to come up with a side story of them all* *dies*
