i cant wait for the next season… can anyone pls lmk where to read the novel and from when?
https://novellunar.com/novel/under-the-oak-tree_69b950544ec7f2955d60b18c
259 is the start of book 2
okay so im genuinely curious abt this mess… ive been reading yaoi bl and wtv for like a decade now… since 2015? and i came across a lot of messy ones but like this one is gen so interesting to me this was a peak wholesome w a bit of here and there mess but overall it was such a great story.
i tried understanding the point of this season and i did argue with some ppl abt this but here i am again… i thought ok the most popular yaois are gen the worst moral ones. full w rape, sa, toxic and countless otger messed up shi. so ofc if u wanna be on tge money making, popular side duh u gonna write that too.
i also read that the author was interested in angst story but liek someone told them not to so they didn’t but now they decided to do so? like gang make a new story pls instead
BUT why unend a wholesome story just to mess up shi and end it again… i cant come up w a good reasoning. like yes u got the story resurfacing but with gen shit storm… whats the point
i reread this soooo many times and was there during chapter drops like the very first chapter etc and i can assure the author everytime i reread this imma stop before season 5 cus ong that was the most time wasting season loll
also additional… this could be such a great new story with new characters because this plot w the current cast was sooo unfitting. they kawaii… the story needed badasses and shi yk??
also im curious what other ppl think?
nah fully onboard. like. literally nothing happened. we went right back to the start of the season, minus grandpa in jail? then ml just shows up at the end with no sort of explanation on why he went tf away. legit brainless. I guess the author was about to lose their mortgage, the interest rates are through the roof lately ig
imo he didn’t try to manipulate her but js told her the truth. cus i read some comments abt him being bad, manipulative and wtv… i mean he got the trauma and the situation is looking similar to his trauma. he alr suffered a lot wanting her, leaving her, longing for her while she didn’t even “know” him. so wtv he is feeling its valid.
I know. I mean, I don't think "valid" is even a fair way to judge anyone's feelings, but it is "true" at least. We've seen him absolutely lose it when he fears Maxi is in danger, both from physical and even verbal threats, even when she is literally next to him. He saw her almost die for him in battle, which made her lose their child, and then discovered she had been abused by her father for years. He was about to lose all he owned and had accomplished just so she wouldn't suffer.
He is absolutely certain the world and life itself WILL destroy her, both because he has seen her multiple times in her most vulnerable and frail even when being under his care, his preconcieved notions on women and noble ladies (the princess being the only exception to his rule, easier to break because she literally has an army protecting her at all times anyway), and his overall mindset as a man that is sent to war over and over again and have seen death happen as easily as breathing.
On top of that he knows his family has a background with absolute obsession and suicide? He's completely fucked, tortured by his anxiety and pesimism.
As Maxi said, their love as it is at the moment is currently killing them. He is not lying when he says he believes he would not have the mental strenght to survive the separation, no matter her reasurance. The only way to not impose his needs would be to erase her from his mind completely. He genuinely believes that.
i get that his words could influence maxi’s decision, but i don’t really see him as intentionally manipulating her. he was finally opening up about something deeply traumatic that he’d never really talked about and explaining why the situation scared him so much because it reminded him of what happened with his mother. he wasn’t making up or using his trauma on purpose to make her stay. he was genuinely telling her how he felt and what he was afraid of. his feelings being valid doesn’t mean the way he expressed them was completely healthy, but i think there’s a difference between emotional pressure happening during a vulnerable conversation and deliberately manipulating someone.
yeah exactly, this is how i see it too. his fear wasn’t just an excuse to stop maxi from leaving. he genuinely believed losing her would destroy him because of everything he had already been through, especially her almost dying, losing their child, finding out about her abuse, and everything connected to his mother.
that’s why i have a hard time calling that conversation manipulation. he was finally opening up and telling her what was actually going on in his head. obviously, that doesn’t mean his fear should decide what maxi does or that his behavior was automatically healthy, but i don’t think being honest about how terrified he is means he was intentionally manipulating her.







ngl atp js skip season 5 and go straight w the AU it’s so peak