Spoiler The Devil Who Breaks My Neck

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  1. meyuh

    meyuh Well-Known Member

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    So I have mtled some of the Naver comments and most of them have little to no spoilers. Most of them expressed that the existence of the devil is real, some also commented that ml or fml's family might be cursed because an ancestor (?) produced a devil. It's really confusing because a commenter said that it's been 40 chs and yet there's no backstory, so it's constant abuse and violence of ml to fml. I also read a comment that she thinks it's not about the devil manipulating ml's memories, but because of his little faith in his wife. Fml hugged a man (she did not specify who) but then ml jump to his own conclusions and was convinced that it was infidelity. It was just a hug, no kissing, no amorous physical touch, but the devil's whispers made him unable to think and judged it in his own way. The commenter also added that the devil barely whispers direct implications of fml's actions, it's clearly noticeable that the devil is tricking ml to think that way but he chose to misunderstand rather than understanding the situation. Fml was said to try in clearing up the misunderstanding, saying she loves him and all, but he still chooses to treat her like a thing. So, we can conclude that he was driven off with jealousy and madness by his own devil.

    Honestly, I think I can agree with other comments in Naver that this novel is dog shit. It kind of reminds me of The Devil, since there is a devil involved and he actually succeeded in making the ml torture his wife over and over again until his downfall at the end of the story. It's messed up in every possible way and I won't read it. So I'm gonna camp here for more spoilers :blob_plusone:
     
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  2. november27

    november27 Happy, free, confuse and lonely in the best way

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    Why does authors write this kind of novels?:blobexpressionless::blobexpressionless::blobexpressionless:
     
  3. Bunbun235

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    Ehh, naver reviews literally said sooo much;
    the fl gets amnesia, she moves away with her baby... The ml lives his life in regret supposedly? His mistress wasn't pregnant with his kid, and the kid that was born from her was called as the devil's spawn by the devil himself LOL.
    Ah, the fl does get mistreated a lot... Abused, locked up... Her only friend is killed afaik, or tortured?..... It's a really, really toxic novel but I'm a sucker for angst..... So I'm looking forward to reading xD

    Plus I'm curious what exactly happened today the male lead for him to turn out like this. And how the devil's spawn came into existence.
     
  4. meyuh

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    What I meant to "no little spoiler" are the details. There was no detailed explanation why this and that happened, moreover, most of them are confusing and I also do not trust mtl unless you can read Korean and tells us in detail who is this devil that is messing up ml's judgment and how did the devil's existence come up, did he really form a contract to the devil after the war began so that he can torture fml? Is the contract the price for losing his beloved? Who are those other characters mentioned that are probably responsible for this devil's existence? If you have more info of these please do tell us, I'm so effin curious :blobpeek:
     
  5. Bunbun235

    Bunbun235 Well-Known Member

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    Hoho, details can only be found in the novel itself and unfortunately, I don't have raws :v If I do get any other spoiler, I'll update here
     
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  6. jujubaba82

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    this is the worst ML I've ever seen, in the last chapter I read he slapped her face in front of everyone, it looks like she'll run off soon with the maid and her son
     
  7. beazacha

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    Ty for the spoilers, the cover looked intriguing like some supernatural stuff but is just the good ol misogynistic mess and torture porn.... seriously some authors need to drop the pen and just get therapy.
     
  8. tabularasa7

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    So my morbid curiosity compelled me to read some later chapters and see wtf happens in this story, so here's some spoilers (this novel sucks and there are some really terrible parts, SO BE WARNED):

    So, this story literally has demons/devils in it. Basically, Ezekiel make a deal with a demon to keep from dying while at war, and the price was that he will help the demon gain a body, sort of a Faustian bargain, if you will. The demon originally wanted to take a memory, but Ezekiel said it couldn't take any memories of Horace (this is his mistake). So they pick a random woman and she gets "pregnant" with the demon as "Ezekiel's" child (they don't actually sleep together at this point - I've skipped so much of this story that I don't know if they ever do?) The demon is kind of like that evil voice whispering in Ezekiel's ear that reminds him of that time he saw Horace and his half brother hugging at some point (it might have been a memory of his brother confessing to Horace that he loved her?), and he gets super jealous remembering this and thinks Horace and his brother had an affair and that the baby she had wasn't his. Instead of, oh I don't know, trusting his wife and having a calm discussion about it, he goes off the deep end and we've seen in all of the chapters already published what she's gone through.

    Time skip, but eventually, she escapes with her maid and I think she's gone for at least a couple of years, but he's so obsessed that he spends all that time looking for her and manages to track her down. He takes her son hostage, separating them, and basically uses the child to threaten Horace into compliance saying she won't get to see him unless she pleases him as his mistress, because she's not the Duchess anymore. Horace tells him he should just slap her like he did before and be done with it, because she'd prefer that and she doesn't get why he spent so much time looking for her when he obviously hates her and wants nothing to do with her, and he's like "why do you think I want nothing to do with you?" (For real? You're ACTUALLY asking that?)

    Another skip at they're back at the castle and he's got her in this nice room (maybe her old rooms, not sure, but I know at one point the mistress tried to claim the Duchess' rooms for herself while Horace was gone and the servants kicked her out), and she's asking to see her child, and Ezekiel, thinking he's come up with this clever scheme, gives her an ultimatum. See, he doesn't want to "break her fragile mind" (good luck, idiot) so he tells her either she stays in this room for three years, without contact with her son, OR she can agree to give him a "real" child of his blood and she can get out sooner and she can become Duchess again and they can go back to the past like none of this ever happened (Achilleon, are you related?). Horace, without hesitation, tells him, "Fine I'll wait 3 years." (LMAO) And he's completely flabbergasted that she doesn't want to go back to how things used to be. And Horace is like, "I won't do that with you or to my son, and I know you won't believe me but Ergen IS your son."

    Meanwhile, demon child is running around being creepy and plotting things.

    The next spoiler is pretty gut wrenching, so get the tissues ready (I wouldn't recommend reading the next part unless you can stomach some disturbing stuff, but it is also where the ML gets served a heaping dose of KARMA):

    The mistress, jealous that she won't get the position of Duchess even though she gave birth to the "real" son (she blocked the memory of getting pregnant without actual conception, but the demon reminds her and she goes a little crazy) tries to harm Horace's son at some point. (I didn't actually read this part, but I read the "consequences"). This should have been a executable offence, but Ezekiel doesn't kill her for some reason and instead exiles her with a bunch of money and knight escorts. The knights abandon her in a barren wasteland and she gets robbed and almost kidnapped by bandits, but escapes and is dying in the desert when I think the demon picks her up.

    Next thing I read was demon child show's up in Ergen's bedroom, looking like a monster, and scares Ergen so bad that he goes running through the castle (where tf was his nanny?). He goes running around the castle, and winds up on a balcony or at the top of some stairs or something.

    Right where the mistress was suddenly waiting.

    She pushes him off the stairs and he dies. As adults suddenly come running in right after this happens, the mistress suddenly coughs up some black blood and collapses, dead.

    Next scene I read was Horace, who has his body and is hysterical with grief, telling him to ask for a kiss when he wakes up.

    This is around chapter 70 something, I think (yeah, it takes THAT LONG to get to this point).
    Ezekiel and some of the staff burst into the room and have to take the body from her (while she yells at them) and they lay the body in the morgue. As Ezekiel looks down at the child laying there, the demon child comes in and they have a discussion about everything that Ezekiel has been doing, and suddenly the demon child goes, "How sad that you did this to your own child." And Ezekiel feels his stomach fall because what? And he's like, "what do you mean, you TOLD ME he wasn't mine!" and the demon replies, "I never actually said he wasn't yours. Everything you did, killing your brother, abusing and cheating on your wife, the death of your child, ruining your happy family, you caused all of that yourself because of your own insecurities." And then the demon tells him that if he hadn't let his insecurities get the better of him, he would have had a happy family of three, with Ergen calling him daddy and growing old together with Horace. And one day, when they grew old together, she would have told him something like, "I love you. I was really blessed to meet you."

    And Ezekiel knows he's f***** because he'll never hear Ergen call him that or probably hear Horace tell him she loves him again.

    And it. was. all. his. fault.

    Horace is delusional for a while and she thinks she hears Ergen calling for her. She finds herself at the place he fell, and in her current mental state, she eventually takes a header off of the same ledge he fell from. But as she lays dying on the floor, the demon comes and does something to her to keep her from dying. The staff find her and take her back to her room and the fall seems to have helped her mentality a little because later Ezekiel comes to see her, and the first thing she asks is what he did with the mistress' body. He says he had it sunk into some cesspool that's for the bodies of major criminals and pariahs and she tells him he should be thrown in there too. She also reveals how she feels like she should be thrown in to the pit too for not protecting him better. She accuses him of being responsible for her child's death because he let the mistress go when she tried to harm Ergen before when she should have been executed. And Ezekiel is like, "yes, I'm sorry our son died." and Horace tells him, "No, he's MY son. You don't get to call him your son."

    And then she tells him she wants to find his brother, that she SHOULD have had an affair with him, and it makes Ezekiel feel really terrible (GOOD). She eventually brushes him off and Ezekiel worries because Horace has this ability to, like, mentally erase the people she doesn't like from her mind. She did it to her father, and now he worries that she'll do it to him as well, and he just can't stand that.

    I haven't read much past this aside from more demon child mind-f**kery and Ezekiel trying to backpedal on all of the dumb sh*t he did before.
     
  9. Rin.rinaaa

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    Damn, this story despite the fact that it's terrible became so DARK real quick :blobscream: Thank you for the spoilers although I have to commend you for pushing yourself to read this novel because of your curiosity.
     
  10. tabularasa7

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    Yeah, I wasn't going to read any of it, but then I saw someone here say something about demons, and my brain was like, "wait, what? how does that work?"

    This tale reminds me of a couple classic tales I've read before, one most definitely Goethe's Faust (with the demon dealing) but also with how Horace reminds me a lot of Margarete. Falling in love with Ezekiel is just as much Horace's downfall as falling in love with Faust was Margarete's.

    The second story was the 10th story of the 10th day of Boccacio's Decameron. Basically, in the Decameron, which is set during the Black Plague, 10 people come together to tell each other stories (while they wait for the world to fall apart). Every day, for 10 days, they each tell a story. Some are comical (like a man who pretends to be mute so that he can work in a nunnery, where he proceeds to have affairs with all the nuns, much to everyone's enjoyment), while others are tragic. But what was interesting about the last story was that the "listeners" to the story (that is, the 9 other participants) all hate this last story when it's told. This is a summary of the story:

    It's like the author took these two stories and mixed them together.
     
  11. Chizuru

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    Thank you for sharing. And literally oh my god. Ezekiel is literally Horace's worst thing that happened to her life. I agree with the demon, it was there but it never outwardly did anything, it was all the decisions fucking Ezekiel did.

    He doesn't deserve her and I hope that in the end he lives a miserable life. He let his pathetic insecurities get to him and destroyed the lives of innocent people (Horace and her son). I need retribution! The only way for me to even read this is if it ends with him dying and for Horace to find some sort of happiness, she needs it and deserves it.
     
  12. KindapitiedMielle

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    I think previous commenters already mentioned that he ended up ending in severe pain because of the deal he made from the devil and ends up dying while trying to touch herace.

    Good. Poor Erzen didn't deserve that, the translator recently dropped this novel and I'm glad she did, I wouldn't want to read all this in detail anyway.
     
  13. jujubaba82

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    what she abandoned the translation?
     
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    So does this mean the FL and ML don’t end up together??? Then I think that’s the only good thing about this story and the author still retained some of their sanity to not make them endgame unlike some other authors. It would be so crazy and f*ked up if they get back together:blob_coughblood::notlikeblob:
     
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    She did. She couldnt handle this she says
     
  16. Toasty_Minzy

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    Exactly. There is nothing anyone could say that could convince me that some of these authors, writing literal incel fantasy novels, do not despise women and have a torture porn addiction. Because thats exactly what this and a slew of other novels with "misunderstandings/misunderstood mls" are all about. These authors need therapy, jesus, or an exorcism. Idk which but writing novels is not it.
     
  17. tabularasa7

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    Someone previously mentioned something about Herace losing her memory or something, so I'm not sure when that happens but I hope that the ending DOES have him dying, because he deserves zero redemption. Like, it's not that hard to wait a few months to talk to your wife about your relationship, if you have concerns about it. Immediately going, "Oh she's guilty! Get me a mistress to bring home to torture her with!" Is like, whole levels of f-ed up, and then he directly tortures her himself, man just needs die from the dishonor.

    On the flip side, I've been reading https://series.naver.com/novel/detail.series?productNo=6072781 and have been enjoying it - it's a much different and simpler novel from most with a returner and definitely been good brain bleach after reading the nonsense that is The Devil Who Breaks My Neck. I'm at chapter 130-140 something at this point.
     
  18. MightyDragoon453

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    I think this story was kind of designed from the outset to be a tragedy and man does it DELIVER on that sweet, sweet angst. We often get tragic starts and misunderstandings in fantasy usually in rebirth tales, or runaways. But here....Ohhhhhh

    There doesn't seem to be any happy endings here. I think this is a true Tragedy. Even the ending with the Herace losing her memories is bittersweet at best.

    This story and Faust does have a lot in common. In particular with the ML and Faust, who own actions led to their own demise and tragedies to themselves and others around them. Hell the demons themselves in those only play a role in nudging Faust and Ezekial down the wrong path.

    Herace and Ergan deserved fucking better and he should've well left them alone but no, he had to be obsessive and chase after them. They would've been safer too, and they had their own lives going on. FL was right to call him out on his bullshit.

    But you know what Ezekial's reaction reminds me of when Ergen dies.

    Jason and Medea. another tragedy. Cause I see a TON of parallels there.

    Jason doesn't acknowledge his sons as his, only Medea's initially. He's too blinded by ambitions, wanting to marry a Princess to secure his crown. Medea is inconsolable with grief and due to her track record with murder is sentenced to be exiled with her kids. We know how it ends with Medea killing the Princess and King (by proxy) with poisoned golden robes that set whoever touches them on fire and then her own kids. Before escaping on the chariot leaving Jason alone with the guilt of his adulterous actions and the death of his children. Only at the end does he acknowledge the sons as his.

    In this case, you can argue the start of Ezekial and Herace relationship back before the demons and bad judgment was similar to Medea and Jason's, where they were happy with each other at first. But Ezekial's jealousy and need for vengeance blinded his love for Herace into making her suffer, taking another woman and treated Herace so badly her best chance was to run away (exile) but a part of him still refuses to let her go. Not as a Duchess this time but as a Mistress (hey another parallel in Jason's plan to marry the Princess and have Medea as a Mistress).
    FL rightfully calls out his shit (As does Medea when she is calling out Jason for breaking his oaths) That plays with his ambitions, but he can't have his cake and eat it too. So when the Mistress kills the kid, the Demon Kid comes out like a Greek choir of sorts, and Medea (in that he taunts ML), telling Ezekial how much he goofed. Ezekial who refused his son only accepts him when it way too late and feels really bad about it.
    And while Herace did try and kill herself, but was resurected, she does not leave him blame free and honestly her getting a clean slate was best for her. And Ezekial who caused so much harm on her can no longer touch (or maybe it was look) her without feeling immense pain, honestly pretty karmic.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7WH30_8vos&t=732s&ab_channel=OverlySarcasticProductions

    There is no going back for Ezekial after what he done. And he will die alone and unhappy just like Jason with that knowledge.
     
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  19. lembayung

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    Ikr, there is a saying 'Sometimes human can be more evil than the devil itself', the devil literally just whispered into his ear, he didn't even lied or anything, it was the ML who jumped into his own conclusion just because of his insecurities and inferiority, even if there is no Devil at play here, imagine if there is someone who spread a rumor about FL 'this and that', he would commit the same mistake all over again, pretty much like Ruve from 'Abandoned Empress, at least he has the excuse of being drugged and brainwashed. Suddenly Soviet 'Remarried Empress;, Lucio 'Lady to Queen' and Igor 'I Don't Want to Be Loved' look like an angel compared to this POS.
     
  20. Reinblick123

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    any detailed spoilers for the ending?