Before You Discard Me, I Shall Have My Way With You Vol 1-4



Agnès is engaged to the crown prince, but much to her dismay, he declares that their engagement is off. Since the prince will not return her love, Agnès decides that she must do what is necessary to protect her family and herself. She commits an unfathomable act, but surprisingly, the prince becomes fixated on her! Will this couple get another chance at love? Or will their stubbornness get in the way?

Smutty Stuff:

Aphrodisiac, Biting, Creampie, Doggy, Dubcon, Enthusiastic Consent, Forced Creampie, Gentle, Knife Play, Noncon, Oral, and Restraints

I do not recommend this to people who aren’t already into the dark romance genre. It literally begins with the engineered rape of the male lead.

Still with me?

It’s actually one of my favorite high drama series. Lots of fuckin back and forth, lots of what the fucks, and it’s all stuffed into four volumes. This couple has to learn to trust one another and they really fucking don’t because of all the past mistakes and truly fucked up things they’ve done to one another. It’s not on the level of fucked up as, say, Lady Devil, but it’s like dark romance lite for anyone that enjoys getting a little dark.

I like how they hurt each other and constantly have to comfort each other once again. I like the revenge they take on one another. I like that even once they’re together, they still struggle, but they learn to open up and find solace and care and comfort that they could have had if it weren’t for the misunderstandings that happened when they were kids. It’s not a pure love story, but it is a love story.

Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 32/50
64%
Comics Read in 2026: 158/200
79%
Physical Owned Books Read: 460/823
56%


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