Under the Oak Tree
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.The daughter of a duke, the stuttering Maximilian, married a knight of lowly status at her father’s coercion.
After their first night, her husband departed for an expedition without another word.
He comes back three years later, this time as a famous knight in the whole continent.
How would Maximilian face him on his return?
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상수리나무 아래
상수리나무 아래
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Sooo... the translations have been removed because the books have been officially translated and are available on Amazon (at least I think that's where you get them). I'm here because I just want to put in my final two cents after finishing everything.
These books are tr*sh and are overrated. There is no true *romance* here, only smut. The justification for Riftan acting badly? Magical brain-damage. I'm not even putting a spoiler warning for this because it's just ridiculous and anyone going in should know about it. I cannot understand why so many people defend these novels. The only thing I can come up with is that they've read so many tr*shy harlequin romance novels that they have Stockholm syndrome from it. If you like brain-dead smut that has no resolution to frustratingly bad relationships and no justice for a female lead constantly abused, go ahead. Be my guest. If you prefer ACTUAL character development and story with a bit of smut, don't read this. *Edit* I'm seeing a lot of people saying you can't criticize the story unless you've read to at least chapter 50, or 100, or even further. If you have to read that far in a story for it to be good or for a character to start developing, then it's poorly written. And I've read a lot further. It does get better, but not by much. And Riftan doesn't really become a likeable person either. */End edit* I'm giving this two stars because, at the very least, the story the author chose to write fits the setting. But there's a lot to hate here. First, there's no warning, so I'll put that here. Maxi is r@p3d and s3xu@lly assaulted in chapter 2 & 3. It's not ambiguous. It's very clearly r@p3. Lines that struck me were: "As his wife, she was his possession and at his mercy."
Riftan: "I won't stop once we begin"
"She could not believe that something so grotesque was happening"
"She Felt a strange sense of emptiness. Eyelids aflutter, she stared blankly at the ceiling. What had just happened to her?"
Riftan immediately following it all: "Why are you crying?" These two chapters set the tone for the rest of the story. It's sm*t, but it's the kind of sm*t that goes back to the days your Grandma purchased romance novels from the book rack in the back of a department store. The ML is forceful; shoving, grabbing, pulling, pushing, twisting and glaring at the FL. The FL is abused by her father and sold off as a bride, losing her v**ginity on her wedding night, and not understanding why or what happened. For the setting, this is something to be expected, however the readers are meant to be enjoying this part. The sm*t is done in detail, and care went in to wording it so that Maxi doesn't seem too resistant. The author very clearly wants o set the ML up as a Knight in Shining Armor, but the first three chapters make it clear that this "romance" will be entirely one sided. Riftan never stops being aggressive and possessive. While Maxi should be a character the readers sympathize with, and hope to see her come out of her shell, the author pushes that off as long as possible to make sure everyone understands how Strong and Assertive™Riftan is. There's moments where you expect understanding and kindness, or at least sympathy out of the ML, but what you're often going to see is yelling, aggression, and glaring. While these traits might work well with the setting, as a romance it falls completely flat. It's hard to get behind and sympathize with a character who starts out r@p1ng the FL. It's even harder when they never show any remorse or attempt to change their behaviors. As for the people that would argue that I don't understand the setting, I clearly already said I do. It just doesn't work well as a romance, and especially not as sm*t. It's fiction, there's even magic, the author could choose to handle this romance any way they want, and they chose r@p3, imprisonment, humiliation, and abuse as the core themes of their "romance"and "smut". Be warned going in reader, the first few chapters aren't for the faint of heart.