# WebtoonLib — The Tainted Half #23

## Series
- title: The Tainted Half
- slug: the-tainted-half-27db1f

## Chapter
- number: 23
- release_date: 2025-05-13

### Summary
The flashback to the heavenly maiden and her two suitors has thrown the audience into a heated debate. While the past emperor's desire to steal another man's wife is condemned, readers are fiercely divided over the husband. Some sympathize with his possessive and hostile behavior, seeing it as a desperate, albeit flawed, attempt to protect his wife from a powerful monarch. Others, however, label him a hypocrite for faking his own illness to monopolize her healing powers. Many have concluded that all three are to blame for the unfolding tragedy, which they now believe is the origin of the imperial curse and explains the current brothers' fraught relationship through a shocking past-life role-reversal.
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### Safe teaser
The flashback to the heavenly maiden and her two suitors has thrown the audience into a heated debate.

### Spoiler summary
The flashback to the heavenly maiden and her two suitors has thrown the audience into a heated debate. While the past emperor's desire to steal another man's wife is condemned, readers are fiercely divided over the husband. Some sympathize with his possessive and hostile behavior, seeing it as a desperate, albeit flawed, attempt to protect his wife from a powerful monarch. Others, however, label him a hypocrite for faking his own illness to monopolize her healing powers. Many have concluded that all three are to blame for the unfolding tragedy, which they now believe is the origin of the imperial curse and explains the current brothers' fraught relationship through a shocking past-life role-reversal.

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

## See also
- [WebtoonLib — The Tainted Half #23](/series/the-tainted-half-27db1f/chapter-23)
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