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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The MC won't be a stuttering mess forever. She will become a great mage who can stand and fight alongside the ML. She becomes a great fit for her husband who loves her to death.
I absolutely hate the ML. He is inexcusably abusive. Okay, he is protective which is the reason why most of us are here however, he expresses his concern, love and care with anger. He uses FL for s*x and fcks off out of the room, cornering her into a life of confinement. Is this really love Riftan? Are you sure you are making her comfortable? What is she, your pet? I understand that FL is... "damaged" with overused reasons but I wish at least she could be more open to new things. She's very prejudiced about how the knights live their lives, etc. She's a coward, a pushover, and so pitiful that the plot is slow and boring. ML and FL's communication skills with each other are unsatisfactory. s*x doesn't count as expressing what's inside their head. Since he has the emotional development of a preteen, most conversations outside of the bedroom involve him becoming furious at her, obsessing over her, or giving her the cold shoulder. He's so delusional about the idea of "highborn bride" he doesn't notice her reactions or actual needs. It's almost comedic. I can say both of their character development is near to non. Waited for it but it doesn't happen. Look at the chapter count for goodness sake... 3 things I liked:
Ruth: Common sense of this book. ML is so rude to him, I don't like it.
Hebaron: I wish he was the actual ML.
The knowledge given about the world and the amount of its usage. I'm surprised that people are LOVING this book and their relationship...
That's it. Rant over.
Maxi starts off as meek, socially-challenged, and a general ball of anxiety. She's been conditioned to be weak and fearful of male authority due to an abusive father.
Riftan starts off as the epitome of toxic masculinity, craving affection without communication and a wife who magically understands him.
Their relationship isn't equal; Riftan is controlling while Maxi, subject to a life time of abuse from her father, knows no better than to wordlessly accept it. But it doesn't stay this way. Maxi wants to change, and she continuously pushes herself to be stronger. Riftan, on the other hand, must come to terms with his past trauma, insecurities, and severe abandonment complex. Both their perspectives are nuanced and complicated by their past. The novel shares our awareness of the deep flaws of its characters, and slowly explores how they grow beyond that. Without spoiling anything, I can still safely say the novel main focus of the novel is on how the two constantly re-define their relationship through difficult trials given by both their circumstances and each other.
What's interesting is that the novel doesn't just roll with Riftan's possessiveness as a symptom of its genre. Rather, the novel criticizes it through Maxi's perspective and explores his behavior through a few dozen side chapters in his perspective. In time, we'll see Maxi's journey of rising above their original relationship and desiring to be treated as an equal.
by that I mean when Riftan doesnt realize how f*cked up she is and instead direct dives in to s*x. ugh, I nearly dropped this. I mean the girl is shuttering for God's sake. But he's all like; 'oh you must be disgusted with me because I used to be a knight of lowly status and you're a Duke's daughter, never mind, let's have sex''. WHAT. THE. f*ck. Come on, how thick can his skull be to not see that she's scared? Is he dumb or what? I understand that he doesn't know Max has been abused her entire life, but you have to be BLIND to confuse fear with haughtiness. The poor girl didn't understand anything that was happening when they started to have s*x but he kept f*cking misunderstanding everything. I was pulling my hair reading it. But it really all boils down to cultural differences, with Korea being more conservative on the subject of s*x. At least he was sorta trying to not make it painful for her and was really patient in guiding Max to get her to prepare herself during s*x so I hung in there and I'M GLAD