praying sobbing wishing that next chapter is tentative adorable courtship and him showing garam how proud he is to like & go out with him ya boi has had enough heartbreaking homophobia, pls!
why yes, yes i would like some incredibly codependent and fucked up dynamics in my fiction. give us tragic backstories and means not justifying the ends, give us groveling at her feet, give us two tortured souls trying and failing to reconcile the past.
and dear god no, no i do not want the capitalist driven virtue signaling caveat of 'oooh but then she finds someone else like Mr McHealthy Relationships and Forgor Everything and Is Now Girlbossing right???'
Huh
The grovel at the feet! YES PLS!
oof i bet the tragically insane and handsome morally ambiguous archetype who comes to be co-dependent on their concubine while casting the nation in ruins is gonna be such a hit. i know I WOULD. i'd simp for that poor little war crime meow meow in a heartbeat holy shit
if it didn't have eggroll and rice cake boy as the main characters like literally the plot is so captivatingly melancholic because everyone around them is morally ambiguous with their own grievances and dreams. so much potential for tragedy to happen
but hilarious af how she literally just grabs the plot by the neck and says, 'nah this is an action romcom bitch ain't no one making me the victim'
ALSO can i just say i'm so frickin relieved rice cake boy catches on quick? one of my main worries is that we will go down the path of, "i suddenly discovered you were part of the group I didn't like! you must have done this intentionally to trick me and i won't let you explain nor investigate, bc i hate you now"
i'm glad he caught onto the body switching clues with the implication that this wasn't something eggroll specifically planned for and went about investigating who she had been first to tie up the clues. GO EMPEROR! DON'T DISAPPOINT US AND HURT HER WITH ASSUMPTIONS!!!!
just their own private joke. i friggin love how seyoung barely bats an eye to his teasing and it's basically just a term of endearment now i'm willing to bet $$$ heejae would play SHINee's Replay in the car just to mess with him
can't wait for openly devoted husband arc & kids arc. it's also infinitely rewarding re-reading this and seeing the art style blossom and find it's footing
popular guy who is struck down for their wild ass assumptions X unbothered chill guy is such a hilarious dynamic
there's gotta be novel spoilers somewhere but i like speculating. is it just MCs sheer will of controlling the gates catastrophe that the main game scenario of the players encountering a ravaged kingdom couldn't be realized? what's happening in 5 days, is it the main event? i thought he had a different deadline for that ages ago?
anw it's just super interesting to think what the irl players will think once they encounter this absolutely OP NPC that seems intertwined with so much of the game's lore, and on the flip side how will MC handle encountering what he was once part of? and how will he handle the aholes who killed him because of the game lol