
It's a nice read if you have nothing to read about anymore, it's not annoying, it's not that boring either, there are some questioning parts but it's all right. Yes, i think there's romance, but it's not as annoying as you would think it is.
anyways, if you haven't read a lot of murim manhwa yet, i think you won't like this.

there definitely WILL be some "romance" because it IS relevant to the plot; mc regretted never experiencing a loving marriage after reincarnating. but it's also probably going to be very light. this feels like the type where it will just show how they develop feelings and get to the point of marrying but won't be drowning us in their love scenes. if anything; it will probably have more scenes of them bonding during training or fighting and then later when married being a power couple and fighting against some opposing force.
but I'm still hoping he chooses to not pick his ex-fiance. nothing on her; she's actually very well written and likable. the whole relationship between them is written in a reasonable and well done manner. nothing feels forced or out of the blue. i just can't get over him being like 80....

While I understand your dislike of having a much older man together with a young girl, I don’t think there’s a middle ground here. Even if he were to date someone in their 30s, assuming he died in his 80s, that would make him 50 years older than that person. Not to mention how unreasonable it would be to ask someone to live out the last several decades of their life alone, as their physically older partner would have died before them, all because of memories they retain from a past life.
Prejudice is often unintentional. Being “not okay” with what makes us uncomfortable isn’t necessarily being reasonable. Consider this, if I could implant memories of your past life into you, upon receiving those memories should you only date people who share the same mental age as you would be? If you refused to do that, would that make you a pedophile? Mental age and physical age are not the same. The mc is a YOUNG man NOW. That’s what’s most important.

to say it's prejudice and then say it was said with only good intent... when i said anything above teen would be more ok. his young man body is in it's 20s. can we at least keep this shit reasonable to the tiniest of extents. and i didn't say he should live out his life alone; i said there's going to be romance but I'd prefer to not see it with a teen partner. you may have tried to say this in good intent but as this entire thread was based off of there being romance or not and me simply saying there will be and i'm chill with romance but the age gap is iffy as hell as a heads up to OP; it didn't succeed to come across to me in that manner. but you do you. i'm ending my side here.

It’s clear that you took my reply offensively. I wish to point out to you that “ semantic redefinition” exists. I honestly was meaning what I said with positive intentions. My goal was to point out an error in your logic in hopes that by recognizing that error, you could easily correct it. I clearly stated that I thought your inaccurate use of logic was unintentional. And that I was not attempting to criticize you.
I was truly acting in Goodwill. It’s like, if you have someone who believes that 5+4 = 8 and you try to explain to them that it’s just not so. It doesn’t mean that you’re placing judgment upon them. It doesn’t mean that you’re looking down on them. And it doesn’t mean you think negatively about them or their beliefs. You just think their belief is incorrect. A belief being incorrect, doesn’t necessarily mean the belief is morally wrong. It just means that the belief is based on something untrue.
I feel that you have applied additional “value” to the term “prejudice” that I never intended. It’s like the word “weird”. Weird means that something is strange, or abnormal. Strange and abnormal only mean that something isn’t normal. Meanwhile, normal means that something is standard, average, or the majority. By that logic, the Statue of Liberty is weird. But because of semantic redefinition people would take offense to me saying that, even though by all technicality, the Statue of Liberty, being one of a kind,… is weird. Because it’s not standard, average, or the majority.
Prejudice can be as simple as having an opinion based on logic that stems from having not taken the time to consider if “what is normally true” is still true outside of normal circumstances. You gave an opinion, but you stated that your opinion was based on a certain logic. But the logic you presented contradicting itself.
You stated that you were uncomfortable with him being with someone the age of his granddaughter. Given that he was very elderly before dying, we can assume around 80 or older (possibly over 100 given his status as a martial artist), his granddaughter would logically be born when he was in his 60s or 70s. Meaning that his granddaughter could in fact be in her mid-20s. This would mean that your logic went against itself.
You claim that any number that doesn’t have one at the beginning was fine because he shouldn’t date someone the age of his granddaughter. However, if he were to date someone in their 20s, that does not stop that person from potentially being the age of his granddaughter. So if you’re not OK with him being with a teenager specially because she is the age of his granddaughter, why would you be OK with them dating a woman in his 20s who could also be the age of his granddaughter?
It’s especially ironic to me that you’re said you felt uncomfortable because of a situation that “can be perceived as an immoral age difference”, and therefore your solution is to unintentionally create a situation that “can be perceived as an immoral age difference”.
That world is based on a different time period than ours today. In that setting a woman should not be older than her husband. It’s just not proper. This means the woman will be subject to scrutiny, and so would he.
Unless your logic is based off of 2025, but the story is not based off today’s time period. In that case, it would be like someone feeling uncomfortable reading a story about Native Americans, before Columbus discovered America, having pregnancy as teenagers. There was nothing morally wrong with that (It was appropriate for the time). If you read a novel based on that time and circumstance, and then had criticism about the morality of it. That would be prejudice. Hence why I chose that word.

Most importantly the main character right now is a teenager. He is not an old man. He is a young man.
If we’re going to adjust his age based on his memories (instead of basing his age of his physical body) then it can only be seen as morally appropriate for him to have romantic relationships with another teenager who possesses memories of their past life where they died as an elderly.
So basically, he should just be alone and die alone. Even if you say that any age that isn’t a teenager is fine it actually isn’t. Because old man being with a young woman is either right or it’s wrong. It’s not going to become right for an elder to take a woman in her 20s just because the young woman is a few years older then a teenager.
So there just isn’t a way that you can include his memories and come up with a situation where he could morally be with anyone in a romantic relationship during his current lifetime. Thus, I do not believe his past memories should be calculated into his age at all.
I you were to insist that we must calculate his age based on memories then anyone who’s ever been in a coma for long periods of time needs to get a divorce or just not be in relationships. Because memories determine your age, not your body. So by looking at the situation from various perspectives you see the many errors in your logic.
I only read until chapter 2 and i already scared to read the rest. Pls tell me there is no romance please! Who is his fiance tho? They better not be in a relationship. Im too scared