It’s nice to have a story where the characters actually identify as gay, because they get to interact with other openly gay people and talk about social situations that arise from being closeted. And like, I get why the average yaoi isn’t interested or ready to write those topics, but it’s also kind of weird to always read about gay people in Japan as some one off exception, usually a “I’m only gay for one person” sorta thing.
Imagine finding out that your spouse has been secretly manipulating your kids to lie to you all their lives. That your kids were so afraid you’d find out the secret that they didnt want to be around you.
I’m not going to judge the queen for this weird single-identity plan (yet) but at the very least she could have told the father of her children, as he’d be the one most interested in interacting with them anyways.
The blonde princess was nice and all, but Seiden is truly the best friend Diarmuid and Bezriche could have had because LOOK AT HIM. He’s actually DOING something about this family’s messed up relationships - especially by telling Jaina that he would take her away if she wanted that, but also that her father is more than just the person she’s seen so far.
I’ve had the personal experience of someone telling me things about my parent that I cannot imagine them doing, because all my life they’ve been depressed. It didn’t make me forgive them for what they’ve done to me, but I was at least more informed in how I treated them.
Jaina doesn’t have to forgive Diarmuid, but Seiden is right to tell her about the kind of person Diarmuid used to be before his world was turned upside down. She deserves to know, and to make choices based on the fuller picture, and that’s what Seiden is acknowledging and trusting she will do.
A MC who is the hidden illegitimate child of royalty is not particularly new, but most of them are men. Having an illegitimate princess being taken seriously is new for me!
And the clear emotional turmoil the emperor has makes me curious. I want to know more about how the MC’s life came to this, how the emperor messed up, and what he’s going to do about it now that he knows.
Lmao not Arsian getting bullied by his dad and his lil bro. Man gets no peace.
(And he shouldn’t, because his dad is right: for Camilla to marry him, Arsian’s gotta put in a lot of work!!!)
I swear I wanted to like it, but I still like the original art more. I also don’t get why they have to start from the very very beginning? Can’t they do a quick recap and catch up to the climax we were all waiting for? Doing it like this makes it even more clear that this version is still using the storyboard of the original, but with less care in the details.
The mother excusing her daughter’s torment as “childish quarrels” is really disgusting. Ma’am, out of everyone here YOU should know best what it’s like to be discriminated against for your appearance. If your lady friend is really that great of a person, talking to her son about why he’s a violent racist shouldn’t be a problem.
I’m not going to sub to this story, but if ANY character tries to excuse the bullying as “oh he just likes you”, I am mentally trying to explode them, okay.
Definitely the worst one from this author I’ve read yet. Soooo many plot contrivances added late in order to justify the ending.
It takes 80 chapters for them to get married, and then 1 chapter to deliver the baby. I seriously didn’t expect they’d kick him out of the womb so early RIP kid, your father doesn’t favor you and neither does the author.