
So he was about to reveal his true self at the future at the stake if Xiao yu's life?? but unfortunately, the machine exploded and xiao yi died? Is this why Ling chen wants to kill Ye zimu?? The last chapter explains that everything lingchen did is just to somewhat revive his auntie,, now in the middle of saving xiao yi,, Ling chen realizes things after talking to subconscious/imagination auntie.
Ling chen is about to stop fighting ye zimu and reveal himself, Save Xiao yi and who knows what more he would do when he's free from all of that. But then no, xiao yi died from the explosion and lead Ling chen continue hating/wanting to kill Ye zimu to that final fight they had where Ling chen died and got reincarnated/travelled back in time

okay thats the first time he tian seriously communicated,, he really broke his own wall and tell little Mo about his feelings. hmm this is a kind of improvement :D
he probably joke about it next scene
but since we knew that the puppy is real and that he tian lost it when he was a kid (he still didnt tell that to Mo, Jianyi or zhengxi,, he tian just tell Mo about the puppy only Now, last chap)

so like, both yeonwoo and jun can control those creepy hands and jun is afraid of the dark with those whispers from reflections/mirrors because he chose to forget all of that when he got traumatized at 5 yrs. old ? Jun now is trying to be an upright person but as yeonwoo implies, jun is totally different when they were kids,, im curious where the power came from tho that it can traverse anywhere with reflections and manifest at will,, all came from the black room?

wow lots of update new info,, so grandpa/tudi deity/lord qingdi also goes be the name of Yu xi. AND., DID GRANDPA JUST ADMITTED THAT THE REASON WHY HE IS UNSTABLE IS BECAUSE HE HAS AO GU IN HIS HEART ???? OMG
ALSO AOAO 'S BROKEN PAST SOUL COMES BACK.
And so theory time from more update infos,,
when past aoao died because of past ryan, where ao gu killed past ryan and reincarnated his brother,, there were this black pearl (the one theyre looking for at the beginning of this manhua,, its probably past ryan's treasure pearl. they explained how the dragon has a pearl and how they are obsessed on treasuring the pearl) the black pearl as it has been introduced contains a great amount of power,, its true but it was never on the mortal realm like how aoao heard it. When past ryan died,, ao gu took the pearl and they somehow sealed it on their realm,, big brother sacrificed a lot for his brother's reincarnation severing and erasing lots of things for his sake but all of that has been useless because their dad (current dragon god emperor) put ryan's black pearl to baby aoao (just reincarnated ao ao) in order to avert crisis of the uncontrollable black pearl energy. Thats why aoao can see/feel the black pearl when they try to mate,, from their theater school mate that believe ryan wont do the same thing again,, looks like he forced his black pearl to ao ao in their past life, which killed aoao. Remember when past ryan somewhere in chapters said he was ”passing” something to ryan with the line ”forget it, he can pass it by them having physical/sexual intercation” ? i think its the black pearl he was passing which past aoao is against to.,
And also, when current aoao and current ryan have physical interaction and past aoao resurface for a moment,, and looks like he detected past ryan (the obssessive black dragon) dominating current ryan and got scared by it which is why ao ao is frightened. But the current ao ao loves ryan which solidified the info that their past soul inside their body is a different soul from what they are now.
the weirdest thing is when the ring broke and past aoao resurface, he was kinda angry that the ring broke which means past aoao still loves past ryan,, but then he was afraid of him?? i see theres more unsaid information in between we still need to know

i dont understand why others are confused,, so lemme give sequential summary to try help,.
basically duroa valrose reincarnated here as villainess that she confirmed after meeting the existence of two persons, nocton and alice when they were younger.
valrose did not much remember the novel (which is fair and actually normal, other isekai FL are really amazing for remembering every sequential plot of story,, supposed its their fave novels maybe thats why they remember clearly)
Since Valrose knew she was the villainess at the least,, she tried to befriend Nocton, who she thinks is the main lead of ”He and Alice” Novel because Nocton would eventually kill valrose for bullying alice, so like, maybe if theyre firends, he wont kill her in the future. ML in the novel has black hair so readers like valrose in her past life thought the ML was nocton and not Claymore (the blonde guy, current fiancee of valrose). She thought itd be easily solved like that,, which is why we have the manhwa title.
So the present Valrose, drink the memoir that returns clear memory, and now she knows that ”Novel valrose” was manipulated to bully alice for some sort of gain that would benefit Nocton. Which is why she was now afraid of nocton. Although i dont think she can be manipulated because Isekai soul benefit., Valrose and Nocton thought that the hypnosis works. And its the reason why Nocton didnt call valrose her name ”Duroa”,, the hypnosis starts by calling the real name in formality. Nocton always call her Valrose because he believe that valrose was only there by his side because of hypnosis, and he was afraid to lose her. Nocton can also sense danger like the tea cup scenes where he made his servant drink tea that valrose poured. The cup is poisoned, even if he wanted to drink it he cant.
Although we saw how angry valrose is because she clearly remembered how nocton plays with her emotion,, she dont have enough confidence in herself to believe she wasnt manipulated,, it was a real thing in original novel after all. Same as Valrose, Nocton also dont have the confidence of Valrose staying with her in her free will. He also dont want to believe that Valrose would understand nocton's hardship (for instance, his mother trying to poison him) at such young age.
Its not simple miscommunication,, they cant just communicate and exchange their truth that easy. Nocton cant say his side about the black magic because its too personal that could endanger his life and maybe valrose too. Valrose also, cant even say that she was from another world because thats very personal that could endanger her life too. Both Nocton and Valrose are walking in thin ice who cant freely communicate.
The current time,, we knew that Nocton probably prevented every engangement towards Valrose with his powers,, Claymore engagement is a fast deal Valrose agreed after being wary of Nocton. Valrose made Nocton promise her that he wouldnt kill anyone so. The Vision of alice from tea party murder-suicide is probably what would happen tho, if Valrose declared she was going to marry claymore in front of Nocton,, if nocton was backed in the corner then he might have hypnotized claymore to do that murder-suicide after knowing/reading the latest chapter in Nocton p.o.v. how he actually adored Valrose but couldnt afford to show it.
The future is fogged because Valrose didnt finish reading the Novel. She was waiting for the Novel chapter's price to be cheaper so she still didnt know the next volume(final volume of 3 books) but she died in the midst and reincarnated not knowing what was the ending/route of the story.
The story is quite good in my opinion,, the possibilities are now open, and it is slowburn but is fast paced in a good pacing/editing which is great. We are literally looking onwards to what was the ending contrary to usual isekai that has their plot introduced from beginning to end. It is a great read.
Im curious of the original ”Him and alice” murder ploy that leads valrose to die, like why??
Claymore also camouflaged in his training in Ernhardt and the topic of mana, so magic indeed exist,, after valrose diving in the novel's world, she know knew that Alice can see future and Nocton is born with black magic who can hypnotize people which she didn't knew before. Looks like magic is just a sideline in main story.

Thanks for giving the summary!
Well.. i guess, in the original plot, valrose was just a pawn. Nocton wanted more power and wanted to be seen as "hero", because he punished the "villainess" a.k.a valrose who bullied alice. That way, he can get more power and people sympathy. So, valrose had to die. He didn't have any feeling for valrose, just a mere pawn.
But but but, nocton in this story doesn't really think of valrose as his pawn. He wants power, yes, but not as bad as before. In the present day, he is likely in love with valrose. So, he hates claymore, he doesn't kill because of the promise, he drinks holy water even it's dangerous for him, etc. And i think, the possibility of valrose died like the original plot is quite small.
That's what i get so far, what do you think?
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i think the same,, “Valrose reincarnation ” indeed is different,, and ML maybe fell for the ”current” her contrasting the original novel where ”real valrose” can also be hypnotized/controlled/ordered,, reincarnated valrose has her own personality that influenced Nocton. I also think hypnosis doesnt work on reincarnated valrose.
In the chapter after tea party where nocton and claymore visited valrose in almost exact time,, after leading to the argument where valrose says that claymore, her fiancee is more important to her over nocton,, Nocton answered and called valrose name several times. He was trying to order/hypnotize valrose to follow him by calling her title as how his hypnosis works (because valrose said something akin to “not meeting anymore” and sort of abandoning Nocton because she has claymore in his life) but looks like reincarnated valrose really cant be hypnotized,, she didnt go to nocton's side afterall.
”Valrose, valrose, goddamn valrose.”

our ML thinks valrose is friends with her because he knew he could hypnotize/order people but since current valrose is isekai'd and got close to nocton on purpose if saving her own life,, i really think our FL cant be ordered/hypnotized,, nocton didnt know tho but he could have a gist since since he cant hear Valrose's thought., if nocton can also read/hear Valrose thoughts everything might have been solved
i think helbert is either the girl (new classmate of yumin) or the guildmaster from the first chapters,, or maybe a real new character to be introduced