The Palace of Bardo - Reviews

I'm going to transmigrate into this manhwa to kill everyone except Gwang-in and buy him an island where he can enjoy the rest of his life in peace

I didn't expect it to be like that, but I really enjoyed it. This ia an underrated manhwa with a complex and deep story combines with dark back stories but at the same time you can feel the pain and love throughout to the end. Basically, the story is about a person who reincarnated after 100 years with all his sad memoriesfrom the past and he will face again with the person who hated more in his past life, and he wants to get rid of his painful karma in this life. The development of the characters are touchable and as it goes to the end, you can see the bright side of each of them more and more. Don't get distracted by the harsh beginning of the story casue none of the main characters will make excuses for their wrong behaviors and they mean to reflect on them. If you like lovely-dovy stories, this is not for you but if u like deep and dark storie, you'll truly love it. 

(P.s: the only problem I had to the end was the bad father-son relationship of the emperor there).

DON'T READ THIS, this is just a BIG TRIGGER warning story.

The following trigger warnings : Incest, rap3, physical abuse, mental abuse, kidnapping, being held hostage, torture, killing, suic!de, emotional abuse, attempted murd3r, making someone dissabled, ch!!ld abuse, ch!ld neglect, literally EVERY TRIGGER you can think of. Spare yourself the pain, & waste of time and DON'T read this. Ignore those absurd higher ratings. This is only a story that certain type of people who need therapy can enjoy. 

The art is nice but the story itself is horrible. The MC has been abused in both lives, everything you can think of has happened to him. I dropped it in chapter 36 after he gets rap3d by his half brother AGAIN in this new life (after being reincarnated) LITERALLY AGAIN all while he was chained up and not able to do anything and the worst part is that a man stood outside (who looked like their father) and didn't do ANYTHING, he didn't help the MC or anything he just hid and listened. This has literally all the trigger warnings you can think of.

The ML is also no better in his past life, in his current life he changed a bit which is why I kept reading along with the art, but then ends up making a few of the same mistakes he did in his first life. I was hoping he would make up for the horrible things he did but man the author decided to make this whole story a mess from the start and carry that on.

A fascinating roller coaster of emotional damage and torment. The author tortured us through complete 49 chapters, out of 51. The story is a road of thorns, mainly for the MC, and the ML is just a majesty with nonsense in his brain; like, he knows exactly NOTHING. Very little to unseen amount of fluff that even you ruffle your brain, you can't remember if you saw any. In short, less sweetness, more and just increasing pain until Ch. 50.

The MC and ML are surely cute together; a perfect match. However, the way they used to protect themselves and cherish each other, was uh, unexplainably weird sometimes. Often scenes in the Manhwa depicted irritating behaviour of especially the ML. The MC is really cute; honestly, spare justice for him. But I'm glad the two found their happiness even if at the end. Poor crown prince 😩 poor baby, I know we all love him so much, that little royal football~~ I wished the story could advance to a point where MC and ML raise CP together ;_;

Can't find more to write, just that this manhwa is a road of torment and bittersweet sacrifices made by the MC and ML for each other. If your heart can take such a plot, go ahead read. Won't say it's unworthy of your time; the story's really interesting, addictive. The art well.... 😂 Allow me to keep my opinions to myself, though I'll at least say, the art got WAY BETTER in side stories.

Best recommdation for tragedy BL fans. 

Apparently if you're an uke with Ganymede appeal you boast the power to drive your sibling to commit incest, and make the seme carry out the usual "being possessive by tearing off lover's limbs" trope to the extremes, that and also hit his own son coz the kid touched his uke's hair which he deemed as possession. 

Plot is predictable, I'm at chap 37 & I can see what's coming next. Characters have no interesting traits thus far, just that typical possessive (extremely) seme who redeemed himself after miraculously realising his fucked up behaviours (through memory flashes in this case) & the uke gaining the courage to clap👏 back 👏at his fuckery. The idea is decent tho, reincarnation? Yeah no biggie you see a load of these stories everywhere, but imagine this version of reincarnation as being karma-fueled, with hate against someone as the tip of the iceberg.