Tiger-Crane Kung Fu by by Miss Roy 😍 🔥🔥🔥🥰
#this is actually what happens🤡
Me: *tells someone that I have just read a new book*
Someone: wow, and what is it about?
Me:
tbh like….i ain’t mad at either soo or so
they were always destined to fall apart in this era
soo tried so so hard to make sure that she would help him, so that no one would have to suffer, so that he wouldn’t have the legacy she heard of as a bloody monarch. she wanted him to be remembered as she saw him: a great king, and a good person. but once he became king and she became his “mistress,” as won puts it, she was inadvertently stripped of all the power she had in the palace as a court lady, and she was reduced to “sitting in her room, waiting for him to come home.” the intention was for her to become queen, but without the backing of a powerful family to support her, it became impossible. by the time so told her he would make her the second queen after she had a child, she was already broken. her best friend was killed because she was a traitor, spying on her and lying to her for years. not only that, but the one who ordered her death was the man she loved, and despite the fact that chae ryung was working against her the entire time she was in the palace and helped kill people she loved, soo is incredibly torn because she can still see in her a girl who was trying to help her family. then another friend of hers commits suicide. and then she is told that the reason the man she used to love became such a slimy, homicidal jackass was because of a warning she gave him, reminiscent of the previous king telling her he killed people in order to get the throne because she covered so’s scar.
at this point, hae soo feels not only like she doesn’t have the power to save anyone, but like her influence on politics has had an active role in killing all the people she’s worked so hard to save, people she loved deeply. no wonder she wants to leave - it’s not that she thinks so is a monster and wants to escape him, but rather she’s gotten to the point where she hinders more than she helps, and her staying is fatal. and she can’t take people she cares about dropping like flies anymore.
meanwhile so. so. so has his hands tied everywhere he turns. someone made this great post about how people have been abandoning him since the start of his reign. the military general. his mother. baek ah. now hae soo wants to leave too, the only person he has left. and to be honest, it would be better for his reign if he let her leave, because every move he makes he thinks of her, and, as we saw with his marriage situation, he would doom himself if it meant staying by her side. but he loves her far too much to ever let her go. the only thing that finally gets him, that really makes him let her leave, is finding out about wook. and i don’t think it’s a jealousy thing - he knew years ago she had loved one of his brothers, and there’s only so many to choose from. but the fact that it’s wook, “of all people why does it have to be him” wook, breaks him. not because it’s his brother. because he’s the man who plotted the death of his oldest brother, who used chae ryung as a spy and made her a traitor (with the assistance of won), who was ready to shoot yo with an arrow like he was hunting something, who threatened him using hae soo and collaborated with his family to make his sister take soo’s place at so’s side, who used his smart brain to rally the noble families, who looked so in the eye and said “nothing is yours, it’s all mine.” it’s not that hae soo loved someone besides him ever in her life, it’s that she was ready to marry someone who at every turn tried to tear him down and their family down, a manipulative murderous snake, and despite that part of her still cared for him enough to beg for his life.
he feels like she never loved him, “wook was always in your heart,” like it was all just some scheme wook was planning or a way to hurt him using what he cared about most. so he lets her go, because he feels like she’s “throwing him away,” or, even worse, that she never cared about him to begin with. at least not as much as the guy who killed his family and hers.
and it’s tragic. and heartbreaking. and i really can’t blame either one of them.
bilf (book i'd like to finish)
💀💀😭
Woah never thought of it this way🤡
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mmmmm i've been stalking to your blog and I'm confused why WS deserved better lol just asking, I just want an answer no hard feelings 😀
Heya~
Lets see, 4th Prince Wang So deserved better because:
His mother completely destroyed his face and as a result he lived his life being treated like a monster.
He was abused his whole life
He was caged up and starved on a regular basis
He was left to die on a mountain full of wolves
He was isolated by his family no matter how much he tried to make amends
He was shunned by his brothers and treated like an outsider
As soon as he had a shot at happiness he was turned into the King’s dog
He was forced to kill his own brother
He was forced to marry Yeon Hwa
His surrogate father, advisor, best friend and his lover all left him for things that were not his fault.
He was seen as a villain for having traitors punished whilst the actual masterminds behind the treason were seen as heroes.
He lost the love of his life without ever really getting a chance at being with her
He suffered over and over having to protect those who were on the throne - and almost lost his life on numerous ocassions.
He didn’t get to meet his own daughter until a good couple of years into her life and then couldn’t be with her
Essentially, Wang So deserved better because at the of the day every single crime that was committed on the show was either thrown onto him or completely absolved with them having a tragic hero’s ending.
Wang So deserved better because people like Wook were painted as fallen heroes who redeemed themselves without actually doing anything and their victims (Baek Ah and Hae Soo) thinking highly of them. Whereas he ended up being blamed for all their crimes.
Wang So suffered time after time since episode 1 and yet till the very end, no one could fully recognise it and he was left alone. Whilst people like Wook died with people at their side.
The power this house commands🔥
slytherin.
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this house and this aesthetic.. I mean - my heart doesn't hold.
Lmao the tags are sending me💀
kathony + tags part 2
Anyone else haunted by the conflict that comes from living a life?
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen) / Keaton Henson / Oscar Wilde (?) / Sweet and bitter magic (Tooley) / Albert Camus / Dead poets society ( Peter Weir) / Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola) / The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) / Bukowski / Mahmoud Darwish / Maggie Stiefvater / The Secret History (Tartt) / Sylvia Plath/ Inside (Bo Burnham) / Midnight in Paris / Doc Luben / V.E. Schwab / 500 days of Summer (Marc Webb) / Nora Sakavic / Nora Sakavic / V.E. Schwab / Holly Black / Nora Sakavic / Maggie Stiefvater / Kafka / I was born for this (Alice Oseman) / V.E. Schwab / The starless sea (Erin Morgenstern ) / The starless sea / The starless sea / Dead poets society / Steve McCurry
(thanks to everyone who edited everything, I'm sorry I can't find you and credit your work to you)