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ystrike1 · 1 year
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Divorcing My Tyrant Husband - By Josara (8/10)
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I'm aware that this webtoon has a bad reputation, but I'm giving it a high rating anyway. I love the slow burn. The creeping horror of being trapped. The struggle and the hate too, even if all of those things have a comedic tone. This story does get pretty dark, and then the author throws in a yandere. Then, they make the guy you hate obsessive too. Darn. Guess I have to see what happens next.
Sadly, we all hate the love interest. He sucks super hard in the beginning, and it takes FOREVER for him to get...ok. don't crucify me. The guy is not a nice guy, but he's not boring. The worst thing a romance novel protagonist can be is boring.
He's not. Alexandros Castilla is NOT a boring sexy Emperor character. He is a ruler who only cares about keeping his nation prosperous. His wife, Robellia, loves him but he only married her to ally with her father. He takes in a concubine, who is the legendary holy White Lotus. He eventually replaces Robellia with that concubine. Even though Aisha is lazy compared to Robellia her image is better so he chooses her.
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Wait. Sorry I forgot some stuff. Aisha is lying about being the White Lotus. Alexandros is aware of this. HE is the White Lotus. He lets Aisha lie and pretend to be that holy figure, because her bullshit makes politics easier for him. Being the White Lotus involves alot of pomp and circumstance. If he's the White Lotus he has to deal with constant bargaining. If his WIFE is the White Lotus he can just say he's possessive and hide her, and avoid the annoying church in the process.
Are you starting to understand what kind of guy this is?
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Don't start thinking he's cool. He kills Robellia to do this. He locks her in a room. She doesn't receive any care and she basically dies of depression after being abandoned. This is after taking on alot of duties and bringing glory to the Imperial House, by the way. She wasn't a bad wife. She just wasn't the most convenient choice.
Brutal.
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We're in a romance novel by the way. One of the really toxic ones where cheating on your wife is always a good thing. New Robellia knows she will be killed, so she says fuck it. She demands a divorce day one, and she starts causing havoc. She bullies Aisha, and fuck it she enjoys it. Aisha is a bitch who does no work, and her whole cute persona is a lie. Robellia treats her like mud to force the Emperor to divorce her. Like...he didn't have to kill her off. He could have just accepted the mild inconvenience that is divorcing her. Robellia refuses to stand down. She even calls the Emperor out for his fake flirting. She says everything he says is fake, and she also slaps him.
It's very silly but fun at first.
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Aisha is a problem for many, many reasons. She's annoying and good at manipulating people. She also seems to think she's the main character. She is also a reincarnated Korean woman. She doesn't understand why the Emperor doesn't love her yet. She can also see that his sweet words are entirely fake.
Here's...the twist.
The romance novel was never romantic. Sure, it was sold as a romance but in the actual story is just a lie. Lies on lies. Aisha thinks she will be loved above all else, but the Emperor is just using her, the same way he used Robellia. She goes completely crazy because she can't accept that but yeah...nice plot twist. Too bad the lead of your romance novel was only "performing romance" this whole time.
Nobody actually acts like that lol and obviously a cheater can never be a romantic.
It's kinda sorta a good lesson.
Anyway.
Robellia thinks he's shit and she wants out.
Aisha will never give up, because she wants her ideal romance and unlimited power at the same time.
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Alexandros starts to observe Robellia, and it becomes stalking. I didn't notice for a couple chapters, because in the beginning it's just spying. Soon he realizes that a competent Empress is better than a puppet. Robellia also has a secret sweet side, that she never shows him. It makes him want to earn her trust back...but he is not good at romance. His super fake stuff is hollow as wood, and apparently the way he shows affection is stalking...and expensive gifts. Robellia throws away his gifts, and eventually they duke it out politically. Which just...makes him acknowledge her skill even more...uh oh...
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This is the yandere. His name is Caleb and he's a young slave. He has a lame leg. Robellia buys him with a bunch of other slaves. She is desperately trying to look bad. That's the whole reason why she buys the slaves, but then she gives them jobs in the castle. Which gives her more power, and also Caleb has magic.
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Caleb was supposed to have a crush on Aisha, but Robellia finds him when he's a kid. That completely ruins Aisha's chances of winning. Robellia is happy about that, and she decides to make Caleb her knight. He honestly tells her about his magic, and she does need his support.
Alexandros is actually powerful. Robellia is trapped in the castle unless he lets her go.
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Caleb swears to be her slave forever. He kisses her foot. Robellia knows he was a dark character in the books, but she thinks that future will change. She intends to give him a better life. She tells him to stop the foot kissing and make some friends. Caleb immediately lies and says he doesn't want to go to magic school. He says he's been bullied too much, and he's scared of kids his age.
A total lie.
He just wants to be with Robellia all the time.
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Fortunately for Robellia Caleb is already a killing machine, who was using his weak-disabled-slave boy act to stay unnoticed. He's very useful, but he hides that from her to get closer to her.
Alexandros immediately becomes jealous of Caleb, even though he's a literal child. He wants to be with Robellia all the time, like a Knight. He sends even more spies and from that point on Robellia is wrapped in obsession. Her every move is watched. Caleb is a classic yandere, but I think Alexandros has appeal...for some people. Alexandros isn't an emotionally repressed sad boy. He's a smart and ruthless person who doesn't compromise. His obsession with Robellia disturbs even him, and he has already admitted that he will drag her back if she leaves.
Is he charming?
No, but the layers of lies are great.
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vanisagi27 · 6 months
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Redrawing in my style of this Lobellia panel from episode 1 of Divorcing My Tyrant Husband
I love coloring red hair 💖
I tried to use the novel art as a reference for her hair
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is it just me or there's a huge number of fantasy webcomics where the church/temple/holy land/clergy are a twist villain? like it's not even a twist anymore. Anytime you hear there's a Saintess or a Pope or anyone with a big angel/priest imagery you know the heroes better watch their backs around them or around their underlings.
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incorrect-web-novels · 9 months
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Robellia: Stop forgiving my crimes. I worked so hard on those.
Alexandros: You're being pardoned.
Robellia: No, no, no, no, no, no, you can’t do that. It’ll nullify my speedrun
(Source)
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choujinx · 5 months
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POKGUN NAMPYEONGWA IHONHAGETSEUMNIDA (2022-?) by josala
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nassaugirlie · 4 months
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I have more opinions about webtoons ☝️🤓
Today I want to talk about Divorcing My Tyrant Husband. I just read chapter 62 but I thought about it last week too: the priest should have been introduced earlier in the story.
We thought for 61 episodes that Aisha was the main antagonist, that she has been working alone this entire time. There wasn't any hint that let us suspect someone else was pulling her strings.
And now a new character has appeared and in just two chapters we discover that she is a victim of him? After 61 episodes of her being terrible? It's much more difficult to feel sorry for her after all this time, that's why I think we should have at least suspected about the existence of the priest earlier in the story.
I don't know, it made me think about Rashta in The Remarried Empress and how I do feel sorry for her (to a certain extent because that woman is awful enough on her own) because she has never known peace and love and she is being manipulated. But we have always known that.
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About Alexandros:
He is simping hard for a girl he's already married to but who wants to divorce him.
About Amon:
He's a panther
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profilepicparadise · 1 year
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This reaction is so adorable.
source: Divorcing My Tyrant Husband - Oh Youn Ha/Josara
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waaanderingluna · 1 year
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🥀 𝕯𝖎𝖛𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕸𝖞 𝕿𝖞𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖙 𝕳𝖚𝖘𝖇𝖆𝖓𝖉
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zaritarazi · 1 year
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Listen if you're like me where you love kind of trashy soapy webtoons and you need to fill the void left by the remarried empress (though it's on hiatus for very understandable reasons) i am having a blast with divorcing my tyrant husband. I don't want to enjoy it this much but it's honestly so fun okay?? I just need people to console me bc i don't want to like the male love interest but he's really getting to me send help
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dianalillian · 4 months
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What’s so great about him anyway? Just dump him and live a happy solo life!!
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Divorcing My Tyrant Husband
This one of those series I followed religiously weekly this year!
It has similar plotline as Abandoned Empress except the main character Robellia is a transmigrator instead of a regressor.
Not too keen on the emperor as the endgame, but everything else about the story has me on chokehold. The art, the main character. The second male lead is super interesting too!
The daily pass though.
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ani-bara · 6 months
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Hello! I love the art style of this webtoon but I can't find any account or anything about the illustrator, I'd love to see more of their art, please tell me if you know something.
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vanisagi27 · 6 months
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Redrawing in my style or Lobellia/Robellia's dress from episode 7 of Divorcing My Tyrant Husband
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uchihaculture · 1 year
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— manhwa couples I’m ✨proudly✨ obsessed
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choujinx · 7 months
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POKGUN NAMPYEONGWA IHONHAGETSEUMNIDA (2022-?) by josala
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weebsinstash · 1 year
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I mean at least when I publish my works it's always at least inherently implied that I am writing fetish/kink material and that whatever abusive dynamics are for entertainment only, not to be condoned, but then some of these light novel writers who explicitly label their stories as ROMANCE say with their whole chest "ok so the male lead, after already breaking her heart, tells the female lead to prove she loves him by having sex, which she does because she loves him immensely, and after she's already had sex with him, he tells her he never loved her not even once, but it's ok because later on he apologizes and he helps raise the kid she gave birth to after he abandoned her for another woman" like are you for real right now, I would tear out his throat with my fucking teeth, are you actually fucking kidding--
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