hello I've let this marinate for too long that i forgot who nunu and mimi are can you elaborate?
Wow that makes sense
Wait i frgt who nunu was... I took a break to let the chapters pile up.. Can't wait to binghed read them
Piggybacking off this, Mimi may choose to be entombed there if the soul flower is activated and returns time/course corrects and sends Ah Li back where he belongs since at this point he wouldn’t wish to be without him. Knowing that his death/entombment would bring them to each other in a different point in time (even if no long HIS point as hed be Stone) may bring him a sense of comfort after experiencing Nunus timeline.
Because it wouldn’t make sense for only Mimi to be sacrificed since Ah Li doesn’t belong in this timeline.
Mimi is our handsome/pretty (in his case both) king... and Nunu.... you have to read the chapter... you will get emotional... I dont want to spoiler this particular info.
Spoiler.....(probably)
Good guess... if we think about it...Ah Lis' blood brought Stone to life...as if already prepared beforehand. It's probably quite a realistic possibility that he chose this place as his tomb because he knows that's where he is going to meet Ah Li. I read another theory from someone else that maybe they both died of old age, and Ah Li was also in the tomb. I was quite happy with this theory. However, there are no bones, and Mimi is still a stone statue... so I do not think that is possible. Also, another problem is that from Nunu's perspective, we see in one chapter that he was forced to become a stone statue...
Still, I know it's fate. Them being happy that they survived the day Mimi died in the first timeline makes me kinda sad. It's still going to happen...why? Without this...Nunus timeline is going to repeat itself again.
I think deep down Ah Li is already aware of this. That's why he is going crazy in the current chapters.
Literally nothing worse than a self fulfilling prophecy and having a set up for a happy ending you know will never come/can’t be allowed to exist
Oh my...I completely overlooked an important detail in Chapter 4. When the Heartstone begins to shine and time reverses, we see the flower. That moment feels crucial. The Heartstone, literally Stone’s heart, appears to be the flower itself. Mimi is Stone.
Mimi creates the flower in the future. In the past, Nunu places his soul into that same flower. This creates a closed time loop. The flower becomes the Heartstone. The Heartstone becomes Stone. And Stone is ultimately Mimi. It was never about someone inheriting power. It was always Mimi becoming it.
Ah Li’s soul, however, seems to have shattered, and his memories were lost. That detail feels intentional. In time loop stories, memory loss often represents imbalance or sacrifice. If Nunu preserves part of himself in the flower and Mimi becomes the vessel that carries it, then Ah Li losing his memories may be the emotional cost of stabilizing everything. One soul endures. One soul merges. One soul forgets.
I also believe Mimi is still going to die in the past, even in the current timeline. The loop likely depends on it. His death might not be something that can be avoided because without it, Stone cannot exist. The real question is how he dies. Is he killed, does he die of old age, or does he choose to let go? Each possibility carries a different emotional meaning, but all of them could still lead to the same outcome.
What makes this even more powerful is that Mimi has already tried to merge with Nunu when Nunu died. That suggests the merge was always meant to happen, but was incomplete before. If Mimi is seriously injured or near death, or if he simply longs to meet Ah Li again, then Nunu’s final fragment of soul could help him complete the transformation into Stone. The merge would not just be about power. It would be about reunion.
In that sense, Stone is not just an object. It is Mimi and the last remaining part of Nunu combined. It was never someone else. It was always Mimi.