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I swear to God, no matter how many times I read this, I always get attacked by Yeni's cuteness and beauty!

Like she's soooo sweet!!! Like cotton candy!!!

So basically the Emperor has always loved the Empress and only her but as usual, the two have a miscommunication issue.

The Emperor initially took in a concubine because he was taught when he young by his father (I say brainwashed in a way) to have a concubine to keep the power in check.

Then the concubine used sort of a love potion on the Emperor so the Emperor becomes horny+obsessed with the concubine. This, along with the miscommunication between the Emperor and Empress, as well as the concubine utilizing the miscommunication to drive a wedge between the two, led to the current situation.

In the original plot line, because FL wasn't there, the Emperor and the Empress kept misunderstanding each other till the end. This combined with the love potion, led to the ML's situation.

In the current timeline, the effects of the love potion eventually fades and yes the Emperor and Empress will end up together. At the ending, the Emperor realizes his stupidness and gives the throne to ML and goes to live with Empress at the Empress's house. Oh and idk if the Empress directly forgives him. I think the Emperor goes to live with the Empress asking for her forgiveness while the Empress say no in a tsundere manner.

This is an assumption only, but I think the effect of the love potion fades because of FL interfering and making the Emperor realize his misunderstandings. Which deepens his love towards the Empress and overcomes the love potion.




Ps. At the end, the Concubine kills her father and brother and then takes poison to kill herself because she didn't admit her sins (of killing father, brother and kidnapping FL)

I would first like to say- I am okay with Kousei ending up with anyone other than Tsubaki after Kaori died. Why? I'll explain later.

Let's start with talking about Kousei and Kaori's relationship.

After his mother died, Kousei's world became monochrome. He was depressed and had PTSD. He was living a life as if he was half dead. Despite knowing him since childhood, neither Tsubaki nor Watari were able to help him.

The first time he saw Kaori, he already found her sparkling as she played whatever that instrument is called. It could be seen that despite Kaori's forceful nature, it was eventually helpful for Kousei.

Moreover, Kaori had a way with her words sometimes as Kousei mentioned. Kaori's free spirited violin performance enchanted him. Then at the 2nd round where she stopped playing because he stopped and then she started again, full of confidence and charm, mesmerized him. Especially the moment when the two were able to play in sync.
Later, Kaori kinda forced him to join a piano competition. It may look forced, but we can see how obsessed Kousei becomes with the piano. And kinda depressed too when he wasn't improving. Kaori was there for him and always motivated him in different ways whether it be in a criticising tone or "saying that she believed him" kind of tone. While he still failed at the beginning, he was eventually able to continue to play thinking that he's playing only for Kaori.

To Kousei, Kaori is his first love, his soul mate, his other half, the person who helped him out of depression and PTSD and also the person he's playing the piano for.

Similarly, to Kaori, Kousei was also her first love, her motivation, her idol and the person who made her fall in love with classical music. Partly due to her limited time and partly due to Kousei, Kaori was able to become the charismatic violinist she is by letting go off her worries.


Now going to Tsubaki.

1. Tsubaki and Kousei have known each other for years. And while Tsubaki probably wanted to help Kousei to get out of his depression, in the end she didn't do anything to help him play the piano. Well, it couldn't be helped since she's not a musician.

2. Kousei himself said he thought of Tsubaki as an older sister to look after at the beginning. He only saw her as family and a close friend.

3. Despite knowing Kousei for so long, Tsubaki was never able to make his world sparkle.

4. Tsubaki started to help Kaori when she wanted Kousei to be her accompanist. However, when Kousei started to love piano again and starting to be healed from his trauma, Tsubaki didn't like it because he was going to another world than her. And that he and Kaori were in another world, talking about things she didn't understand. At such a time, she should have been happy for him instead. And support him like Kaori did.

5. When Tsubaki heard Kousei was going to a musician high school for his dreams, she became upset, cried and said I hate you to him and ran away just because he was going to a different school. This made Kousei rethink his decisions, literally manipulating him in a way with her tears, words and actions, and I still don't know if Kousei went to the music school or not. If he doesn't, then Tsubaki is literally going to be so toxic.

6. Tsubaki kept belittling him and making him lose his confidence by calling him Friend A and then saying that he's never gonna end up with Kaori and that he's not worth it.

7. This is my personal opinion now but at the end when she says she's always going to be with him as a guardian angel and he can't get rid of her (she said it in the anime iirc), I kinda found her obsessive. Like being there for him to support him as a friend is okay but the way she says it in the anime is like she's pushing her feelings onto him even though he doesn't like her. Also when she says that Kaori loves Watari while he has no choice but love her. That was disgusting. Like what? Whether of not Kaori loves Kousei aside, the way she says he has no choice but to love her is toxic as hell.

8. Also the fact she gets hella jealous whenever she sees Kaori and Kousei together, even if they are just normally talking and smiling at each other, is really toxic. The fact that she got jealous to the point she lost herself at the game and caused her team to lose. I felt bad for the teammates as they could've won if Tsubaki was able to keep her cool and not be jealous over a freaking conversation. If she kept up this mentality while dating Kousei (IF she dated Kousei) then won't she be jealous everytime Kousei interacts with a female pianist or musician or such. If that isn't toxic then what it is. Like she even became jealous over Nagi, a middle schooler.

Tsubaki found it better that Kousei stayed the depressed self he was and that he stayed beside her always than play the piano and be with Kaori.
Kaori wanted Kousei to play the piano again, and be happy again, even if it meant Kousei ended up with Tsubaki.

Tsubaki is too obsessive. It might be that she loves Kousei too much but since it's impossible for Kousei to love her as intensely as she loves him or even as intensely as he loves Kaori, Tsubaki's obsession will not end up well. Especially since, Kousei promised to never forget Kaori. As time passes, Kaori will be romantised in his memories and it would be near impossible to surpass her in Kousei's heart.
It will either end up with Tsubaki hurt or Tsubaki becoming overly controlling. It would just ruin the relationship between the two.
Hence, I think Tsubaki is the last person Kousei should end up with.

Recommend me some similar manhwa, manhua or mangas with ML's pov pls ~

My fav part of the chapter is literally hug between Yan and Tilly! I love their reunion! Oh and the shocked faces of the servants and Yan's lil bro.

Goddamn I'm literally swooning over the FL (and the other male charas including the villain's) every frocking chapter! The art is fantastic! And so is the FL's dressing style! It's marvelous!

I want to beat the Duke on the head like how a drummer beats his drums.... He's so stupid my god.

This couple is a complete green flag

Ok but THE CHIBIS AT CH 5.5 ARE SOOO CUTEEE AHHHH

Ngl, but while rereading it I kinda hate how the father ended up with Jisoo.

Like it's not that I hate Jisoo but I hate the way he choose her and all. Dr. Shin and everything seemed to portray Jisoo as a pitiful girl who is in love with Sangbum for decades. She saved Sangbum but nobody realised it (except Dr. Shin and that woman) and it got credited to Heegyung.

Honestly all this drama could have been avoided if she just said that she's Sangbum's childhood friend and that she was the one who saved her.

Jisoo said she didn't want to say it cuz Heegyung also liked Sangbum and all. But was this really good for Heegyung? This made Heegyung be deceived into thinking she saved Sangbum for years! Also, just as Heegyung was going to get her happily ever after, Dr. Shin had to ruin it.

I realised Jisoo will be the endgame with Sangbum before but the way the author gave Heegyung hope then destroyed it is really nasty. I would rather Sangbum married Heegyung and then Heegyung died young of illness then after a few years he settled with Jisoo. Either this or just made him pick Jisoo from the beginning before telling Heegyung about his plans to marry her.