
The role of the reader is to consume. Whether the story is bad or good, tolerable or insufferable, debilitating or devious, erotic or degenerate, hopeful or amusing. The reader... Is someone with a gnawing to know more, one begotten with the craving to see the world they can never experience through books that lead to many other worlds.
Just as Alice consumes and consumes, we consume Alice's story.
Just as Alice's happiness is to experience it all, to know of it all through words, through reading, through searching, we the reader continue to press 'Next' to see how each fragment of this story comes to be and see how we feel about it.
Just as Alice muses that her overconsumption of 'information' is excessive and... In the grand scheme of things may be meaningless, it is up to us the reader to muse if reading to the end was a worthy choice at all.

Im just here for the tentacles and quick brainrot fucking but damn that tentacled beginning was rough. Nobody warned me this was gonna be sum levels of psychological and existential horror cuz ion know bout yall but all Im seeing is an invasive alien tryna act like they the shit when he's not even good at imitating his host or acting human lmaoooo ( ̄∇ ̄") anyways at least i powered thru to the end. My reward? Prolly dreaming of tentacle aliens and what it means to be sharing parts of yourself with an alter ego like the ship of Theseus which ofc wouldnt be the fully correct philosophical thought experiment congruent to this story but is a good start to digest what I just read. Overall, a meh read ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭

To be fair, the mouse side story was more tolerable and Im glad the mouse and the human couple got a great ending but jeeeeeeez...... Again, having lived in a lie for some time ???? Not knowing you're doing things with ???? Smn you dont know ?? Let alone a diff entity and it just creeps into your agency and the boundaries of consent and truth ?????? WHEW this author should make more thriller-based works, I bet they'd be loved frfr

Im pulling strands of my hair (metaphorically) at this story cuz the first few chapters are so agitating but all the comments so far have been so positive ???? (╯°Д °)╯╧╧ i cant stand all these dumb putas, no character is clicking for me I cant tell if Ive read too much of this ish and am having reader burn out or Im just ????? So used to the cliches working out in favor of who the FL usually is right away ??? But I have officially lost it chat lmaooo TT__TT adios

I NEEEEEED MORE O THIS !! Gimme 10 more at least of predator and prey and their lil babeeeeh and the conflicting feelings of attraction for the thing that killed yo people and the philosophical thoughts of being an alien baby maker or actually being loved, I want angst, I want aliens actually loving their bebe mama, I want the bEBEEEE living in an alien world !!! Pleaseee this needs fleshing out yaoi gods I BEG
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Lemme be clear: I eat this shit up. BUT! Theres a part of me that cant help but face palm with Iheon (ML)'s choices. Like, through all that, your world view never changed, never stirred. It might be romantic for some, but the reality is our ML is so pitifully pathetic. He doesnt have an ounce of other real world interactions that significantly brought him joy or glee or any other interest other than to chase and obsess over a best friend that dont feel the same way about him in two worlds already. No matter the delulu and rationalizations, reality has shown him time and time again they arent meant to be except for the current reality where Huimin is more receptive of him. He is so..... tragically pitiful in a world where there are so many other things to live for than a single person. Sigh.
Three chances at life and he still chose all those same routes to get to Huimin. Like sir ???? You had the opportunity to live abroad, have a great family, not be embroiled in gangster shit, and you still chose malnourished bussy OVER ALL THAT??? DEPUTAAAAA Σ(  ̄□ ̄||)
Perhaps the bussy was Just That Good
Rather than three chances, it's more like. Two. The first life was the tragedy where he didn't know anything and there was so many misunderstandings but he loved and was obsessed and Huimin. But when they were in the painting world, he couldn't go anywhere without Huimin because the second he was out of range the world would freeze. So he had no opportunity to do anything without him. And in a way that made it so he had no choice but for his entire life in that world to revolve around Huimin. Which of course led to his third life where he was determined to make it right. But you can only change your character so much without actual therapy. So we end up with this.
your choice of capitalization in this comment is so important to me
EXCUSE YOU BUT NTM ON MY BABY'S BUSSY
Girl what? Are you forgetting that time LITERALLY STOPS when they are apart in this timeline?? There were NO interactions for him to have and NO experiences to explore because the world was NOT REAL! The only thing ML could do was sit with his own thoughts when MC was not around
No he couldn’t?? Are we reading the same story?? THE WORLD DIDN’T EXIST AND TIME STOPPED WHEN HE WAS APART FROM MC!!! In a way he was trapped y’all… FOR SEVEN YEARS AT THAT!!!
Yes EXACTLY you get it!! He was trapped in that painting world and couldn’t do anything for himself
I think you need to chill for a bit (⊙…⊙ ) its not that deep haha.
We ARE reading the same thing. I just dont agree with the choices he made. The first world, sure, it was his first chance at life and he made his choices. Second world, he wasnt in control, but litrally for one second if you could just consider that maybe Im thinking ????? That he could learn to realize that life shouldnt just stop at Huimin ??? Just because you were stuck for seven years with the person you were obsessing over, he still had the capabilities as he knew the world before and currently and decide for himself if this was the life he really wanted. When he left that second world with his best friend, the person he 'cared' for most, he could have decided on the third try to make things different for him. He didnt need to FOLLOW every bit of their past to reach their current reality, he rly could have made a more positive thing out of his life. Ofc, because he's experienced life in an otherworldly way, there's only so much he can do w/o actual therapy like user A Random Otaku says. Im saying: he wasted his chances to a new life and its both pitiful and tragic because he wasnt in control with the first two and on his third he still went the same semi-destructive route. Gets ???? ( ̄∇ ̄")
Sum of yall dont rly think about how life could be so different if yall didnt choose to go a certain route in a significant moment in your life or think of the what ifs and reminisce on how yall would totally change things if you could just go back to a certain time and maybe let go of a person or stop being hung up with smthn you cant achieve or wonder how different life was if you did this instead of that and it shows (⊙…⊙ ) deep breaths yall
I fear it is so ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
Ye, I kinda generalized my already long brain vomit cuz word count but I think you encapsulated my words well :) I find the author or whatever god was looking over the two was cruel on Iheon. As much as I also wanna believe he rly could have had a more peaceful life with Huimin had he learned (keyword here) to realize that obsession wasnt everything or that his third life could pan out differently with or without his best friend, I can see that his obsessive personality would probably not have adjusted to living a life that didn't revolve around Huimin since its all he knows in his first two lives and that was a long time of liiiiving. Its a bit frustrating to see smn hold onto smthn when the signs from the literal world are blaring you to stop holding on to it but your mind is just ????? hard headed beyond measure ?? and doesnt know how to let go or get help or find something else to lean on. I wonder if he got introduced to therapy in the first timeline or in the third timeline could they have had a more organic start to a relationship...( ̄へ ̄)
LMAOOOOO
I think in a way the fact that his life in the painting world has to revolve entirely around Huimin made his obsession worse. There was no way for him to heal. What he wants to have yet is never able to staring in him in the face everyday, almost as if to mock him. The love of his life looking at him with a certain unfamiliarity. It is a special kind of torture. He really needs therapy.
Ngl ya cooked with this one! Ye, I think having the ability to live through multiple lives and remember each one while the rest of the world around you never remains consistent, could disappear in a split second and you're alone in an unknown reality with one consistent person that's never truly w/in your reach is a horror of its own. Its like the time travel genre but here its multiple remembered lives. To some degree, Iheon never belonged. He never took up space, never got to see what else was out there without the tether of Huimin and I find that just so sad. If there is a fourth life, I hope he doesnt remember his past, I hope he has a functional life with or without Huimin. There's so much to live for out there and I wanna see him thrive and enjoy it and experience love without begging for it in multiple worlds in his own twisted way :'))
AAHH so you’re saying that his time in the painting world should have influenced his choices back in the real world when he returned, to see the bigger picture? I getchu now sorry
I interpreted your comment as he should have been different in that painting world and I thought that was ridiculous because nothing was real there
Ye, this ^^ No worries fam, I get the confusion. My long paragraph would have become a whole loooonger paragraph if I had added my additional points so your reaction was understandable