I was intrigued in the beginning, but maybe it’s not the right kind of story for me because it was torture for me to get through. The characters, the pacing, the villain’s motive. I didn’t vibe with it.
I think I only liked the side stories of the kids and wanted more side stories with them - clearly they’re the kids of main characters after all lol
But I still don’t get the OG Märchen lashing out and refusing to get along with Sirena’s kids. Her backstory showed that she has no hate towards her - in fact she admired her and wanted her to be happy. She did end up dying, which is unfortunate, but why not try to find happiness with the ones she left behind? Share the sorrow of losing FL and stories about her achievements?
I understand that she was hoping to find happiness with her own child, but they are her friend’s kids! (If not friends, then at the very least someone she admired) Maybe it was the effect of the way she was educated and it was the norm to be weird about raising someone else’s kids, but she was just starting to go against the society’s expectations. She fought back against creeps. She ran away from another kingdom. And the line she decided to draw was against raising kids that are not hers… sigh…
To be fair, mourning is different for everyone (and you can dislike anyone for any reason), but some mourning mothers can be willing to take in kids that aren’t theirs (or at least be willing to have them for a while considering their situation - it’s not like they CAN’T have guests) but this is just me thinking like Eins who doesn’t know what she’s going through ;;
But then again, she needed a reason to leave, the kids needed to be loved and taken care of, and MC needed a purpose to be transmigrated. And Eins needed someone supportive by his side too ig haha
Call me callous or crazy, but I don't think she wanted to be a mother. At least, not in the traditional sense. Let me explain:
Unlike other mothers in these kinds of stories, she's never met her child. Her child represented hope for a new beginning, so when she lost her baby, that was the straw that broke the camel's back -
After she was given a chance to start a new life, she doesn't have anyone. She's all alone. She didn't try and find a lover to start a family, nor did she adopt a child or even a pet. Instead, she turned to writing. Her stories are her babies. And stories are eternal. They're low maintenance and don't cry, eat, poop or pee lol. Still need protection from external forces, but my point still stands
In the end, she stayed true to herself and never raised a child from someone else, or have anyone's contribution to create a child with her. Her stories are from her alone, born from her brain. I mean, until she has them published and printed one day, unless they're only and exclusively webnovels.
I would’ve liked to see two broken people learning to love while raising two kids together, but I understand that OG Märchen was beyond saving after everything she went through, and Eins was not socially capable enough to overcome her barriers.
Kinda surprised that she looked like her original self instead of MC's original body. You would think that she would have some repulsion towards her original appearance because of people comparing her to the previous queen, but maybe people in the modern world don't care or maybe it's to make her integration more comfortable so she doesn't have to take over MC’s life or dragon loved her so much that he couldn't bear to change her appearance or so the readers don't get confused when seeing her show up.
Also, are purple-eyed, silver-haired ladies cursed to have low birth rates? Is it just a coincidence or an actual genetic trait...?
The backstory plot kinda reminded me of MC from “The Villainess Flips the Script”, which I definitely prefer over this, but again maybe it just wasn’t the story for me.
I was intrigued in the beginning, but maybe it’s not the right kind of story for me because it was torture for me to get through. The characters, the pacing, the villain’s motive. I didn’t vibe with it.
I think I only liked the side stories of the kids and wanted more side stories with them - clearly they’re the kids of main characters after all lol
But I still don’t get the OG Märchen lashing out and refusing to get along with Sirena’s kids. Her backstory showed that she has no hate towards her - in fact she admired her and wanted her to be happy. She did end up dying, which is unfortunate, but why not try to find happiness with the ones she left behind? Share the sorrow of losing FL and stories about her achievements?
I understand that she was hoping to find happiness with her own child, but they are her friend’s kids! (If not friends, then at the very least someone she admired) Maybe it was the effect of the way she was educated and it was the norm to be weird about raising someone else’s kids, but she was just starting to go against the society’s expectations. She fought back against creeps. She ran away from another kingdom. And the line she decided to draw was against raising kids that are not hers… sigh…
To be fair, mourning is different for everyone (and you can dislike anyone for any reason), but some mourning mothers can be willing to take in kids that aren’t theirs (or at least be willing to have them for a while considering their situation - it’s not like they CAN’T have guests) but this is just me thinking like Eins who doesn’t know what she’s going through ;;
But then again, she needed a reason to leave, the kids needed to be loved and taken care of, and MC needed a purpose to be transmigrated. And Eins needed someone supportive by his side too ig haha
Call me callous or crazy, but I don't think she wanted to be a mother. At least, not in the traditional sense. Let me explain:
Unlike other mothers in these kinds of stories, she's never met her child. Her child represented hope for a new beginning, so when she lost her baby, that was the straw that broke the camel's back -
After she was given a chance to start a new life, she doesn't have anyone. She's all alone. She didn't try and find a lover to start a family, nor did she adopt a child or even a pet. Instead, she turned to writing. Her stories are her babies. And stories are eternal. They're low maintenance and don't cry, eat, poop or pee lol. Still need protection from external forces, but my point still stands
In the end, she stayed true to herself and never raised a child from someone else, or have anyone's contribution to create a child with her. Her stories are from her alone, born from her brain. I mean, until she has them published and printed one day, unless they're only and exclusively webnovels.
I would’ve liked to see two broken people learning to love while raising two kids together, but I understand that OG Märchen was beyond saving after everything she went through, and Eins was not socially capable enough to overcome her barriers.
Kinda surprised that she looked like her original self instead of MC's original body. You would think that she would have some repulsion towards her original appearance because of people comparing her to the previous queen, but maybe people in the modern world don't care or maybe it's to make her integration more comfortable so she doesn't have to take over MC’s life or dragon loved her so much that he couldn't bear to change her appearance or so the readers don't get confused when seeing her show up.
Also, are purple-eyed, silver-haired ladies cursed to have low birth rates? Is it just a coincidence or an actual genetic trait...?
The backstory plot kinda reminded me of MC from “The Villainess Flips the Script”, which I definitely prefer over this, but again maybe it just wasn’t the story for me.