# WebtoonLib — Side Characters Deserve Love Too #143

## Series
- title: Side Characters Deserve Love Too
- slug: side-characters-deserve-love-too-d020da

## Chapter
- number: 143
- release_date: 2025-03-13

### Summary
Following the coup, the chapter centers on a tense confrontation over the fate of the antagonist, Deloah, who has survived her suicide attempt. The newly crowned Emperor Kyle, driven by emotional fury over Deloah's past crimes against Geumja, is determined to have her executed. However, Geumja (as "Joe") intervenes, motivated primarily by a desire to prevent pain for the deeply devoted Isak. Initially, she attempts a logical and formal appeal, addressing Kyle as "your majesty" to underscore his new responsibilities, but his personal feelings for her make him immune to reason. Realizing words are failing, Geumja takes the drastic measure of injuring herself, correctly predicting that Kyle's overriding concern for her safety would force him to relent and spare Deloah's life. This resolution has polarized the readership; while many are relieved for the sake of the sympathetic Isak, a significant portion of fans feel Deloah is undeserving of redemption and that her survival is a contrived plot device solely to facilitate a happy ending for a secondary male lead. The debate highlights Deloah's complex role as an antagonist, with some readers comparing her to a "villainess protagonist" whose actions would be celebrated in a different narrative context.
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### Key events
- Geumja intentionally injures herself to force Kyle to stop his pursuit of Deloah's execution.

## Spoiler
- level: auto

### Safe teaser
Following the coup, the chapter centers on a tense confrontation over the fate of the antagonist, Deloah, who has survived her suicide attempt.

### Spoiler summary
Following the coup, the chapter centers on a tense confrontation over the fate of the antagonist, Deloah, who has survived her suicide attempt. The newly crowned Emperor Kyle, driven by emotional fury over Deloah's past crimes against Geumja, is determined to have her executed. However, Geumja (as "Joe") intervenes, motivated primarily by a desire to prevent pain for the deeply devoted Isak. Initially, she attempts a logical and formal appeal, addressing Kyle as "your majesty" to underscore his new responsibilities, but his personal feelings for her make him immune to reason. Realizing words are failing, Geumja takes the drastic measure of injuring herself, correctly predicting that Kyle's overriding concern for her safety would force him to relent and spare Deloah's life. This resolution has polarized the readership; while many are relieved for the sake of the sympathetic Isak, a significant portion of fans feel Deloah is undeserving of redemption and that her survival is a contrived plot device solely to facilitate a happy ending for a secondary male lead. The debate highlights Deloah's complex role as an antagonist, with some readers comparing her to a "villainess protagonist" whose actions would be celebrated in a different narrative context.

## Status
- data_status: complete
- summary_status: generated
- transcript: Hardsub chapter — image-only

## See also
- [WebtoonLib — Side Characters Deserve Love Too #143](/series/side-characters-deserve-love-too-d020da/chapter-143)
- for_series_detail: /llms-series/side-characters-deserve-love-too-d020da

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