#reinhardt lincke

[only-ever-yours]

TW: BLOOD, VIOLENCE, FLASHES, SPOILERS (ch. 55, 56)

“ I, DULCINEA CANARIA, WAS YOUR DESTINY! ”

i've been obsessed with this manhwa recently, I Tamed My Ex-Husband's Mad Dog, and will talk about it to anyone who'll listen but i'll just ramble a little on Dulcinea here.

i love her character. i love characters who are seemingly meek, quiet and starts off as someone who doesn't seem like she'd play too big a role. i didn't expect who she was in her past life and i kind of did wish she was genuinely nicer to Rein, but at the same time, i loved seeing her cruel, and knowing that she was being played with by Wilhelm felt satisfying. her sense of superiority over Rein was teeth grindingly annoying, and i loved it.

i don't wish that her arc ended in any other way, i don't think it ending any other way would have been as justified and interesting. i like that we see the cogs turn in her head when she realises just what she needs to do to make Will fully hers.

and it doesn't happen because he never was, and never planned to be.

i do wish we had seen more of her life in the castle, and maybe any interactions with Rein when she was crown princess. i do wish we saw more of Dulcinea and Will interact / flirt more in the presence of Rein, and how Rein would react knowing Dulcinea was harbouring such intense feelings for her knight. i do wish we had seen more interact to show more contrast between the two women when Rein was crown princess vs now, when Dulcinea is crown princess.

but i do still love Dulcinea as a character. i'm happy she died, but i did love her role in the story.

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[mizuki-nikki]

i tamed my ex husband's mad dog (honest review & major spoilers!) 👑✨

summary from tropedia:

"As soon as Reinhardt Lincke wakes up 15 years in the past at her father’s funeral, she stabs her husband, the crown prince, in the leg.

Even though he is the one at fault, Reinhardt is the one who is punished. But fate seems to smile upon her when, during the rocky journey to her place of exile, she encounters Will Cohlonna, her husband’s “mad dog” and war hero from her previous life.

Thirsty for revenge, Reinhardt decides to give Will a new name and use him for her revenge. This time, Reinhardt has the joker, and she’s playing to win."

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recently just found a post worthy manhwa that i would like to share! indeed this one surpassed my expectation (we all know how many historical manhwa that we have in the comic industry at the moment), but this one surely did not dissapoint

this manhwa comes across a crazy male lead, with a cold female lead. i can't explain all the stories, but i will just tell u some plot twists that made me just.. so mesmerized and shocked at the same time ✨

1. wilhelm colonna's possesive love and behavior towards reinhardt, our female lead

i am gonna be completely honest but i dont like our main male lead.. at least not the way he's being shown since the beginning of the story. at first, wilhelm is being raised by reinhardt and i feel like the idea of him falling in love with reinhardt is a bit.. gross (my bad) since i thought of him as her son and not as lover. but it is what it is.

wilhelm is a walking red flag.. not gonna lie about it. he's possesive and secretive, he's definitely not as innocent as reinhardt saw her. and when i notice that he actually has ulterior motive by also approaching dulcinea, i knew he is definitely something else.. (although all of that is for rein. yep i know. he did it bcs of his love but still..)

2. how come dietricht is not the main male lead?

this!!! this is the ultimate agony that i have over and over when i binge read all the stories. dietricht is a green flag and he's definitely the perfect match for rein! i was so sad when he died in the battlefield and i feel like rein actually only love dietricht since the beginning. dietricht is just.. sooo nice. he's the most likeable guy in the comic and wilhelm is just so jealous of this guy (gosh, so childish, i cant)

3. wilhelm has also lived life once and can time travel

this is one of the most shocking plot twist for me. knowing that wilhelm remember his past, and how he was tortured by dulcinea (that woman is the worst.. i feel bad for her at the beginning for getting involved in all of these but.. ugh she totally deserves it). this explains why he's dang good in swordmanship.

4. dietricht's comeback (he's not dead oh god 😭)

THE ULTIMATE STORY LINE THAT WE NEED UGHH. this guy is just my favorite character in this manhwa. when i read that dietricht was not dead and just losing his memories, i was so happy. his personality changed a bit as he becomes more caring. he's not as cheeky as he used to be and i feel like he should end up with our main female lead instead.

5. how wilhelm also secretly wishes dietricht to die..

this is also one of the biggest plot twist in the manhwa for me. wilhelm actually knew that there will be an ambush from his old memory and he did nothing to save dietricht. he secretly have inferiority complex over him and how rein likes dietricht more than him (honestly i think it is also necessary to the plot as rein would definitely reject wilhelm if dietricht is not dead).

6. wilhelm's new characteristics as the new emperor

i havent been a big fan of wilhelm's personality but he becomes more attractive after he become an emperor (still unlikable, but oh well) but i can understand his pain for being rejected by rein (i mean he lied a lot to her. if i were rein i would've done the same)

7. rein & wilhelm's child!! 😭

GOSHHHH he's so cuteeeee i love his interaction with dietricht. dietricht will make a good father and husband for sure. the greenest green flag man 😚

overall this is a satisfying manhwa to read. i am still waiting for other chapters so i am looking forward to read more 😆

[moltensmusings]

About to ramble for a bit about a different series I read a bit, fell off of, and recently fell back into:

Now from the title I know people are going to be giving it a sideways glance, far. I will warn that in the second chapter someone attempts to sa the female lead, nothing happens, and nothing like it happens again. But I do want the warning there in case someone is surprised by it.

But also it's so insanely good I need to talk about it. Long ramble under the cut:

So the story follows Reinhardt Lincke only child of a Marquess who loved her unconditionally. She's in a marriage of convince to her loathsome husband, the crown prince, who she'd been engaged to since they were kids.

However following him making decisions to please his mistress that cause a rebellion, he disobeys the order from his father the king to go and quell the people. Instead commanding Reinhardt's father in his place, her father going with the agreement that once things finish, the prince will ask for a divorce. Her father dies in the war and while sobbing over her fathera casket the prince asks for the divorce he promised.

For 15 years the female lead agonizes over the loss of her father and her anger at her ex-husband, vowing that if time were to rewind she would get revenge. So when time resets to the moment she heard the request for the divorce, while the prince tries to negotiate what she'll get, she simply does what anyone would do:

When asking for that doesn't work she takes the next best course of action:

Obviously she gets imprisoned and eventually banished to her mother's old territories after having her father's stripped from her. Something done with orders from the king because he's aware of what mess his son has brought.

To the north she goes where she meets with a much younger, much more unintimidating, future knight of her husband who was known as a mad dog. Limited on staff she decides to help him shape up into a more useful tool for her and her revenge. She's not a warrior herself, but she'll use every other warrior she can.

Now to note: the male lead is 16 when they meet, the female lead is 24. There's a lot of mugginess when it comes to romance. It's messy, questionable. And I'm about to get into spoilers but if you go into this, know no one in this comic is a good person. I do beg you to read it though because it's so very very good. You can read it officially on tappytoon.

More art:

So first, the female lead actively avoids a romantic relationship with him, most of their time is spent apart when he gets separated and sent to war for 3 years after a handful of months knowing her. But the male lead has an obsession with earning her love. He'll do anything for her and she needs that type of person following the death of one of the only people she had left.

The manga is dark. The romance isn't sweet or cute, the female lead only agrees to a romance because she feels like she messed up the male lead so badly that she owes it to him to give him love at first so that someone could love him. He doesn't tell her that, in fact he's fine how he is and simply is happy to exist the way he does, but she believes she's the reason he ended up how he did. The male lead views her like his goddess and he's willing to dive into the pits of hell and be utterly depraved, hurting himself if it means she would even deign to think of loving him.

She wants the head of her enemy, and he is willing to bring it to her.

And never once are we given a moment to want her to have mercy on the prince, but it also doesn't feel like it's forced. We feel sympathy for the Mistress, even if she's a terrible person we understand she's a victim who hurts others.

Now for current spoilers:

It's also revealed the male lead has gone back in time, he has memories of being used and abused by the Mistress of the prince who becomes his second wife. He loathes her and wants her dead so his interests align with the female lead. He even still manipulates her and pledges his loyalty to the royal family just to win back the body of fl's father.

He brings her the body of her ex-husband after he dies and goads her into mutilating the body because he came to love her after finding out how much brutality she could have in her.

And then immediately following this she sleeps with him for the first time while still covered in the blood of her ex-husband.

This series is dark, twisted. Everyone in it is some brand of horrible and we know that. But it never pretends it's anything different. From chapter 1, you are aware the female lead is willing to destroy.

[only-ever-yours]

“ distance: inches in between us. i want you to give in ”

this is SO Will-coded. i will not hear any arguments.

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