Depths of Malice - By Paldu (9/10)
The protagonist is the mastermind in this one, so the reader gets to see every detail of what goes on in her sick mind. She is not a good person. She's tough, smart, and independent. Those are bad traits for a noble woman who is supposed to quietly marry. How can such a woman survive without kissing a** forever? She's willing to shed blood to find a way to inherit her house and become great. Decide for yourself if you like her or not.
Verta Alberhart is the main character. Make no mistake. Don't expect her to be outshone or outfoxed. Her losses are minor, and she always gains power in the end. She stole the body she inhabits, out of spite. She wants beauty, and power, and men. In any other story she would be the villain, but the men she defeats are far worse than her.
Verta Alberhart WAS a depressed, suicidal girl with an abusive fiance. Her beauty means nothing to him. He likes having multiple women at his beck and call, and he finds her innocence annoying. He has bothersome fetishes as well. Verta is gorgeous, so her fiance wants to watch his right hand man kiss and fondle her. She's not into it, but he doesn’t want a boring wife.
Her life has been hell for years.
Jean Lawrence is a pig who sees women has objects to be used. Verta's father doesn't care about her pain. He just wants to ally with the Lawrence family...to do illegal trade. It's a messy situation, but Verta is too spineless. There's always a way out. Verta chose self harm because she could not see her own power.
Rita wants that power. Rita WAS the daughter of a Baron, but her mother was weak. She was seduced by a powerful Marquis named Proud Carter. Carter used their short affair to discredit her...and her daughter. Rita's legitimacy was questioned. She and her young mother were cast out by the Baron. Her mother chose death. Rita worked as a waitress, but her body grew weak. Her lungs collapsed and she is cursed to die young of natural causes.
Verta. Stupid, depressed Verta...visits Rita in the hospital out of pity. She complains about how she wants to die, even though she is the gorgeous daughter of a Count.
Rita steals the body and life Verta hates so much. Verta quickly dies of lung disease. The wizard that did the deed helps our Verta from behind. His face changes multiple times throughout the story, because he is a criminal who wants to return to his beloved homeland.
Ian, Verta's butler, is a rat under Jean. He "teaches" Verta how to be a good and coquettish wife for Jean. He has no feelings for her. He just wants to keep his position and money as a noble butler.
He dies.
This is the man Jean uses on Verta like a sex toy. He has an unrequited love for the pathetic lady, and yet he assaults her on command. Verta drugs him, which causes him to fly into a rage and kill Jean. Which frees her and punishes him for the wrongdoings he had endless excuses for. Verta begged for suicide, and yet this man just kept letting Jean treat her like trash. While glancing at her wistfully.
Sick.
Bye 👋
Won't miss you...
With Jean gone she starts to make allies. This is the prince, Brandt. He's an innocent man who is a little obsessed with defeating Proud Carter. The man who poisoned the beloved previous king. Brandt is weak to beauty, and Verta's sweet lies. He is hopefully not the final love interest. Verta is actually honest and not fake cute with her favorite man.
This is Blaine, Verta's highly devoted and dirty partner in crime. He is under her thumb and he loves it. He wants to marry her, but he's ok with being used. He slaughters her kidnappers. He becomes her lover, and he says he wants her to be his. He was jaded about women before, but he's pretty chivalrous. He just wanted a smart woman to romance, not a uneducated frilly burden. Verta's gorgeous face sweetens the deal. I think he qualifies as a very high quality yandere. Verta raises him into a loyal dog, and he's a talented manipulator...who uses his skills and his sword for her benefit.
Then we meet Rosalie Amber. In any other story she would be the protagonist. She's a caring and gentle beauty, with a cold face. Under that she's soft and pure. She works tirelessly at a women's shelter, and she thinks in black and white. Rosalie is what an ideal protagonist would be...so everybody makes fun of her. She is widely known as a naive fool.
She has a fiance who is well under her station, and he's clearly Carter's man. He barely shows interest in her, and he talks down to her in public. Rosalie's lonely charity case personality has made her bad at socializing and romance.
Verta kind of uses her, and she drastically improves her life. Verta seduces Nathan, her insecure but handsome fiance, on her stepmother's orders. Rosalie's stepmother believes she deserves better, so Verta offers to ruin him.
She does.
Yersha, the wizard, takes Nathan's body as payment for all of the favors Verta has received. They both leave their identities as Yersha and Rita behind. Yersha plans to leave the country in Nathan's body, and he plans to change his identity again. Body switching magic is rare, but not some kind of godly power. There's a ton of crime and intriguing stuff here. No sparkles.
Then Rosalie is free of her rat fiance. Verta gets a truly loyal friend, and an alliance with the stepmother (who is more useful than Rosalie)
Blaine is by far the best candidate for love interest, but Brandt is becoming more possessive too. The men Verta chooses to keep around also respect her strategic decisions. This is a very good story, but the evil does get hammy sometimes.
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Appreciation Post
Tags: Smut, NSFW
Manhwa: Depths of Malice
This is just me ranting about a favourite chatacter of mine; Prince Van Brandt! (Blond)
One word: SIMP!
He's such a simp for our FL, even though he's not the ML, the authour was kind enough to give him a side story where he ends up with the FL. So sweet! I love him.
Turns to mush in our FL's hands. Makes me jealous. Like bro, is sweating. Is canonically a virgin.
But that doesn't stop him. According to our dear FL, he's #too big! Verta, Im utterly jealous.
Does this not wanna make you do things?
I'm swooning right now.
This manhwa is eye candy. Everybody's so hot. Even the no-so-significant villains.
That's it. Thats the post
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So do any of these determined but deranged women you post about see any action in their respective comics, or is the focus squarely on jockeying for social status and emotional abuse?
(I'm assuming this is about this post) Are you asking if they have sex? It depends but usually no. This genre's aimed at teenagers so you're not gonna see much of anything.
But if you're asking about the deranged women in that post specifically then actually yes! At least 2/4!
The crux of Resetting Lady is that she's relived the same year 100 times with no signs of the loop ending any time soon. She's done a lot of things to mix things up, including her acquaintances
⬆️This was a great show of how detached she is from whatever cultural norms are. Hey. Tell me how to die. You can fuck me. You're not allowed to say no.
Depths of Malice is actual porn. Honestly kind of funny how op rec'd it so casually amongst the others. Her first major arc is murdering her fiance to escape his forced cuckold fantasies.
I mean that literally. a comic where you can feel the comment section rioting.
It's fine though, once she's free she goes back to her true loves, scheming and playing around with men. She's a good girl. The best, really.
Outside of these, I Fell into a Reverse Harem Game! Has sex and I think the plot was at least somewhat pushing towards a "drop the mono-mindset and fuck your harem if you want to keep breathing" thing. This is also a good one in general, if unfocused.
There's probably more but I'm blanking. Don't expect much from this niche.
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Guys omg. So I have been reading and rereading Depths of Malice for about two years now, I recently just saw that it was completed. I love this manhwa so much oh my god. Verta is that bitch. She is an actual villain, petty, and the biggest schemer I’ve ever seen and we love her for it. I am obsessed with her. The spicy scenes were pretty good, but there weren’t many. The real star of the show is Verta. One of my all time fav FLs, she’s up there with Roxana. READ THIS
♡Depths of Malice ♡
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Medea and Rita would get along well if they met
Rita: So you swapped bodies with the one you hated too
Medea: Yes… It was necessary for my plans. At the time, I thought she stole my fiancé and caused other things. You?
Rita: She was saying how lucky I was to be dying and how she wished she was like me so I gave her what she wanted
Medea: What happened to Verta?
Rita: She died when I swapped bodies with her and I’ve been living as her ever since while giving hell to everyone who messed with me. What happened to your swapped person?
Medea: We’re getting married
Rita: …
Medea: …
Rita: So… What will you do with the person who fucked with your life?
Medea: My wife and I will kill him
Rita:
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