Rue gave her a love unlike any I've seen before; one that didn't require anything in return. I've never seen someone be so whipped for and in love with someone. His love for her and her love for him is so genuine and real that you can feel it through the screen. He also watched over her for 14 years after their first meeting to keep their promise, and never intervened or pushed himself into her life and goal, and only ever became a part of it after the war ended and he found her as he first did. I can't even imagine what Rue must've felt after Daisy's death with Mephisto the first time; the author spared us his pov in that timeline and honestly it might've been for the best because I know I wouldn't have been able to handle it. How do I even describe it? This man loves her. He's madly in love with her. This is the first story that has made me think 'will I ever get to experience a love like that?' and I've read a bazillion romance stories. And there are so many small things he's done throughout the story that just make you melt. He learned cooking for her, she sucks at it. He told her not to fall in love with him bc she'll regret it, but he was actually just repeating what she said to him during their time on Queen Island. Daisy feels so comfortable around Rue. Even before remembering her memories, this man made her comfortable around him - her, a war hero who had problems sleeping because she was used to keeping up for ambushes. There's tension, fluff, and adorable, adorable romance. Rue slanderers did not read the story. I can confidently say he did nothing that would ever need someone to defend him.

One of my favorite lines of Rue's when he was asked about Daisy as Andert is: I'm a pretty die-hard fan myself.

and Daisy. My favorite, most lovable female lead. She deserved the love Rue gave her, and I love a male lead that is whipped for the female lead, but I also love love love a woman who's whipped for her man. Daisy fell SO HARD. And it was so natural and so adorable and so lovely assdfsdfk.

If you want a realistic portrayal for how siblings are in a novel, this is the right place. Personally I expected Andert to be the sweet younger brother you often see in k-novels, so when we found out he was the typical annoying younger sibling, it made his relationship with Daisy feel that much more real. And Daisy proves to be a true older sister - her way of showing her sisterly love is bullying.

the quirky, tongue-in-cheek dynamic she has with her brother when they get reunited,

I don't know why the hell people are giving 1 star to a novel that (so far) only has 12 chapters, but is already so promising. There's suspense and mystery, which has me looking forward to the chapters to come, and there's a pretty, overpowered FL who not only has the smarts, but also the strength. Side characters and ML also seems to have some depth and lore to them instead of existing for the sole purpose of making FL shine.

If you like Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji's unordinary servants and story line, I bet you will like this one. It has OP guardians, assassins, survivors, unconditional love, unexpected friendships, etc. The difference is the MC is the mixed of Elizabeth and Ciel Phantomhive, or I thought so hehe. The ML is just like Sebastian, he will always be the MC side and love her unconditionally, you will love him despite his rude (?) mouth and indifferent attitude haha. I find him as the most adorable and admirable person in this novel.

the Sword master turned out to be just an oddball old man with psychotic tendencies but actually a good guy? Mephisto is just some random crazy disciple of Dian? Natasha's corruption is healed out of screen and I guess she's a doll now?? The king is just "Oh and then Rue came and kicked his ass because of jealousy"-ed away and he actually never really wanted power? It annoyed me that the intervention everyone had with Daisy, which to me seemed extremely s*upid and dangerous, turned out to be completely correct in the story universe and for almost no other reason than pure luck.

Rue was so OP in comparison. Like it's good that he didn't take too much of an active role in the plot, but he would show up coincidentally as a white knight to save our MC a little too often.

poor Raphael. To be honest, it was super frustrating that MC didn't want to reunite with her old friends because she didn't want them to mourn her a second time. That would've made more sense if her friends hadn't been like the MOST POWERUL PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY. Her friends clearly had access to all the research and precious artifacts necessary to help her live longer.... but she ran away instead.

Also I know that the author set up Rue as like, the one who was there the whole time, unfortunately, all the PTSD flashbacks that Daisy went through only had Raphael in them. So it was pretty disappointing to see the sparseness of their interaction in the story. It really didn't feel very resolved to me.

while this isn't as bad as some of them, I was still heavily disappointed that the author chose to create a whole new character (Rue) out of nowhere as the super OP ML instead of having Daisy reunite with Raphael.

Rue. At first, I thought Raphael was the ML because that's how it usually goes. And I'm team Rue all the way, no second male lead syndrom from me. After all, despite the other LIs clear interest/obsession with Daisy, I couldnt confirm if they really 'like' her as a romantic partner... except princess Natasha. She's down bad for Daisy and that is completely valid.