So I see some people sad about Callian having feelings for Ophelia so I wanted to alleviate people's worries (novel spoilers)
Callian's arc is about self-realization, not romance. Callian's issue (directly stated in the novel) is that his mother (who everyone loved, including OG Ophelia) died giving birth to him. He feels that she should have saved herself rather than him, however she wanted him to live to become a better person than her.
Because of these mommy issues, he seeks love from women to essentially fill his mother's spot in his life. It's why he liked Fleur (nice, soft-hearted) and why he grows to like Ophelia (reliable and cares about him).
However, both of these women have to play roles for him and he doesn't (and won't) like the honest versions of themselves. Our current Ophelia is not some perfect girl: she's manipulative and will give back what she gets (she beats up Fleur in the novel so bad that her nose bleeds).
What the story is leading to is Callian realizing that he is prioritizing what he feels is love (which is actually his mommy issues) rather than actual wanting to become a better emperor than his father.
does he become an emperor in the novel?
Yup!
so i read the novel and beware that there is piss stuff (more details in the next para) during their post-confinement sex scene so if you get squeamish (like me) maybe look out for it
if you're wondering what the piss stuff is, ml pees inside of mc.
Eww....H3ll Naw. What a great way to get infection.
Wadahel men piss are the most disgusting though
i need a million more chapters of them like they're literally so cute that i got heart palpitations
i feel like the writer taking this route for their story has essentially doomed the story because if Ian becomes Brian then it ruins Ian's internal conflict in season one and shows that Ian does not matter.
however, if they don't do that then that means they wasted everyone's time with a whole season of about 50 chapters on the flashback when they could have only done flashbacks when the information is necessary for the audience.
Not only that but this flashback has essentially ruined the pacing as actual plot came to a complete stop meaning that there has been NO STORY PROGRESS FOR A YEAR. i'm not complaining because i hate the flashback because i think as its own story its interesting but in the actual context of season one and the actual plot occurring present-day, this actively hurts the story
I totally understand wanting to defend the story but the pacing is like objectively fucked right now and it makes sense that a lot of season one readers are mad at waiting more than a year to get back to the plot.
Preach it sis
I agree completely. I also want to add that it means we'll always be looking at Sol as if he's seeing Brian, not Ian so in essence it'll never feel like a romance bewteen two people just one person in love with his (for lack of better terms) dead lover. This past (and pacing) really did hurt the story in multiple ways.
good news guys, the story has been licensed so there will most likely be consistent and properly translated updates soon
Yeah, 26 chapters as of currently.. That's a long wait. (￣∇￣")
Trueeee
im so mad that they literally said nothing after 8 years and then just cancelled it especially since it was pretty obvious there was minimal work done on it in those 8 years with everything mappa was doing
he sees the tape and asks if he's turning on music despite saying that he can only see the shapes of things so the fact that he immediately knew what the items were is suspicious and implies that he is lying about his eyesight. especially when you consider doha only took out the tape once he was at the cassette so he would have never had the chance to see it beforehand
if his eyesight is actually not bad, then that implies that he was at some point in the room before and knew that there was a cassette where doha which would mean he has memories of a past game. so either he is lying about his eyesight or he has minor memories of the games (maybe not about the murderer since he was going to be killed but parts of the past games like him being in the house)
loving reading this theory shit
Exactly plus it's hella dark and the lights are off so even if his eyes adjusted to the lighting if his eyesight was really bad his first question would "hey what are you doing over there?" Not what he previusly said.
If he also has no memories of the previous games but his personality is the disposition of liar it means that Doha will likely lure him into situation where he will be forced into using cassette tape and then manipulated into turning against the one guy who's always at Bada's throat with accusations. The guy who is constantly calling him weird and suspecting him of doing crazy shit despite not knowing him that well.
i honestly love how the series' handles her relationship with the emperor as she decides to go back to her birth family and live with them as she is unable to truly figure the emperor for everything he put her through so she only keeps in contact with him through letters and makes it obvious that her relationship with him could end if he makes any wrong moves.
Any spoiler for the real princess.. is she any good or she's the problem (villain) in this story?
spoilers ////
the princess who is here now isn't the real princess so philomel stays and tries to expose this fake one and bring the real one back again. the real princess is not a problem at all and is actually nice but the one we see now is the villain.
THATS MIND BLOWING. Thank you for the spoiler! I'll read it again.. I want to drop it coz of slow update but I'll wait and read it again. ✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧
Wow, thanks! What will happen to the villain? How the hell is she there? Is she the author? Or maybe a reader too?
uh how did fl bring the real princess? did the fake switch soul with the princess or the fake just change her looks.?
sorry for the late reply but from what I remember the author of the original story transmigrates into the ogfl's body which is why she's acting strange. she's here to bring the story back on track by bringing back the original status quo of everyone hating our fl and loving the ogfl.
sorry for the late reply T-T but the fake transmigrated into the ogfl's body,,, i can't remember where the real ogfl is but they do get her back in her body at the end
the novel version is amazing so i totally recommend reading it while waiting for the updates for this!
it isssss; ahhhh they're so so cuteeeeee, extremely adorableeeee (≧∀≦)/
agreed!! the novel is sosososo good ^-^
I can't take this story or people complaining about it seriously because this is so obviously masturbation material. like this is just the manga version of like a gay cheating pornhub video. like this is made for mrm or a hentai site and you guys are trying to find logic in it.
and honestly i'm more upset with people who keep uploading stuff (specifically porn without plot works) from mrm here because everyone keeps making think pieces about 5 chapter manga where there is no plot except them having sex every chapter or 2 chapter short stories where its so obviously a kink porn story.
also i'm writing a lot but it reminds me of when echo jiro's works were uploaded here and people were talking about how it was hot but the plot was bad...like yea because it's gay porn. its one chapter long and the whole thing is sex because its porn.
And people are still allowed to criticize it, if you can't take it seriously then good for you, just move on with your day
I 1000% agree with you, most readers wouldn’t survive in the early BL years where stuff like that was kinda normal haha also echojiro mentioned, I found my people <3
Like this is just porn and it’s GOOD porn. Newgens would hate me for saying this but this is 10/10 hahaha
for someone who stopped reading, you sure like hanging around the comment section of this story lol.
anyways i think its fine if you wanna criticize media including porn. nothing should be exempt from criticism imo but you're complaining about the mc cheating but its in the story description. for someone so keen on criticism, you'd think you would be able to do basic comprehensive skills such as reading.