"Congratulations, Your majesty the emperor! It's a GIRL!!" (Haha, dear ML, better be nice to the baby niece!) And YESSSS. Finally, we're back to the plot-driven scenes!!! (the purely "romantic" ones, so far, have only managed to strike me as kinda annoying...)
By the way: now that it's confirmed this story's monarchy has a harem system, we can speculate that is why it was said the previous emperor had five children but no heirs: if they were all born either "outside" the palace, or to mere concubines and not to "official wives" like the empress and the consorts (and yeah, I'm thinking of this in terms of the ancient Chinese imperial harem's hierarchy)
What the heck did he do before, whenever he said "Aha," for her to still react that way even with the amnesia... (I get the feeling maybe, when he knew she was lying, he used to "casually" trap her in the mirror, or whatever... just like he does now, with the "rude guys" inside "floor mats"?)
Nowadays, I'm remembering when Ra said she regretted inventing MARRIAGE, of all things... when (as we've found out) there are PLENTY of her other 'inventions,' that she should be regretting, a lot MORE:
Ra: (back in chap. 70) "Gods should've never gone for human marriage. I now even regret having invented that marriage thing, in the first place. Marriage is useless!!"
Me: (now, after the raws) "Then... what about making those two friggin cursed mirrors? You should DEFINITELY regret having made *THOSE*!"
That two-faced "bodyguard" is so lame... Dude, is stalking some (allegedly) "clueless little girl" (and grovelling to her jealous mediocre loser, ugly hag of a stepmom) the most you could do with your life? ...Bc really, at this point, you'd even make a cockroach feel the 2nd hand embarrassement (might as well try to get some zeggs from the ugly stepmom out of it, at least... you absolute loser nobody)
Guys, is the ML unlikeable? I read up to chap. 4 and amazed myself at my instant unbearable disdain for the ML (which is something that shocked me because it's not something I usually feel, let alone so early on, so quickly, and even to this extent...) and after reading people's comments I gained the courage to ask you guys if I'm overreacting or someone else also felt that way, and, to those who've read up to the latest chapters: is this is worth reading, despite this guy, or ...does he even get any better?
I'm sorry, but there's just something SO unpalatable about him, and I already can't stand him.... Is it just me? Or... doesn't he act like he thinks he's so much better than her?? Just because he, unlike her, is ALLEGEDLY so chivalrous and "charitable to the poor" (when in fact "you too are just like her, over privileged, you hypocrite"). And I say "allegedly" because, to me, it just looked like he was even "gate-keeping" the orphanage and the charitable activism, like no one else is allowed to be also a donor and give to the poor in that oprhanage, or even visit them, without *his* approval? I REALLY wasn't impressed by his indifferent holier-than-thou attitude, and it only got worse after crap that he said to her "You don't belong here" when they bumped into each other by coincidence in the orphanage (like he was the "owner" of those orphans and they were his exclusive territory to gather a reputation for "social activism" from, or sth???), it really disgusted me ("dude, who THE EFF do you think you are, acting like you OWN those poor people, like you have the say of who belongs or doesn't belong visiting them and helping them, and kicking out another potential charitable donor for NO reason, like you're gate-keeping the charity and the poor in that place?? Doesn't that just make you look like you don't want 'competition,' no 'rivals' coming to take from you the 'social prestige' of being thought to be 'so socially aware and compassionate'... and that you only do charity and social work there for the feeling of self-pride, superiority, and self-importance that it all gives you, rather than out of a sincere, authentic wish for those poor people's wellbeing? Otherwise, WHY ELSE would you try to keep away other potential donors / sponsors / helpers, for NO GOOD REASON??"). And his inane apologize later: "Oh, sorry that I acted nasty **cough*** and gate-keeping the orphanage **cough***... I just thought you had followed me here," (????). Dude, I haven't seen ONE hint of the mc stalking you, for you to so quickly assume that something like that was the reason why she was even there?? Did the author/artist miss how this would make the ML look?? The self-possessed conceit in that comment made me go from not standing him to downright hate him! He acts to her like he thinks he's practically "like god's gift to mankind" or something like that, and she's unworthy of him. Or, like he's one of god's chosen, blah blah blah, who's so unfortunately "wasting himself on an obviously lowly inferior, petty shallow creature" like our mc?? Am I crazy if I say THAT is the atmosphere he gives off to me?? ...Guys, does this guy get any better? ...
I simply can't stand assholes gate-keeping charitable activism and the poor, while clearly using them only as fuel for their own EGO. That's why I can't even remember when was the last time I got so unbelievably fed up with an alleged ML character, let alone this early on, that it made me seriously want to drop the entire story, after only a couple of chapters... (I don't have the habit of doing that) but... DOES THIS GUY GET A REALITY CHECK LATER, BECAUSE I'M AT THE POINT OF DROPPING IT
Anyway, sorry for the long rant
So the mc's finally started "remembering" some stuff. And Liena... seems to have ALWAYS had a preference for awful hair styles.
Girl, what happened to "I'm gonna go hunting every day"? While I don't mind the romance, I DO mind being deprived of satisfying self-empowering scenes just to get the lamest kind of "romance" ever ("woo is me, his rejection's making me look bad in front of the *servants*!!"). Like PLEASE...there has to be better romance development than THIS.
So, she had the option of at least offering prayers, to make it a bit better, yet failed to do even that. Psycho just wanted to keep 'enjoying' seeing someone else suffer. I hope she gets all the divine punishment she deserves, along with that nasty shaman (her parents a lot less, but not scot free either, since they KNEW another innocent child was being targeted and still went along with it, it's hard to forgive that).
The story's really nice. Good plot. A female lead that keeps her resolve in her second life properly. A setting and plot development that leaves the reader really intrigued and wanting to know what will happen. And of course, beautiful art and characters (though I'm not exactly thrilled by the different skin tones assigned between the "villain" group and "hero" group so glaringly and perhaps so deliberately, I'd kick the author or artist in the face... or whoever's responsible for this imbecile decision, because that person definitely has... problems)
Aside from that GLARING issue, there are only just a few plot-related details that are off-putting about this: how we're left in doubt about whether the ML saw the FL's abuse in the past life (when he came to spy on them) and if he did, then if that actually means he ultimately did nothing to help (I mean, even if he's the one who turned back time for her... if it turns out in the past he was a passive spectator of her abuse, it wouldn't sit well with me how in THIS life, he'd go and tell her something like what he said to her already: "that he wants to see her cry"... Bc that would give this comment a whole new, aggravating meaning). Another thing, I'm a bit irked at how touchy-feely the ML is with her (and oblivious that he's feeling enough authentic sympathy and compassion to feel attracted, and not bc he wants to use her), and last, how idiotic it sounds that, for the sake of plot drama and to give the 3rd daughter some inane excuse to be shitty, the mother was for no reason made to decide to keep the secret from her 3rd daughter, that her oldest sister was in fact her full sister, when she could've just told her and made her keep the secret. That last one was just stupid.
So...if your BF was secretly a tentacle nightmare, would you guys want The Truth or to just stay "gaslighted"? (I mean, when it comes to his "true form" matter)?
Everything's a darn secret, the ML's starting to get me irritated with all his secrecy. So much of it, it gets confusing what the general public know and what they don't know, about him, his curse, and his monster-infested territory (which, I'm guessing, is right above the "hell" place that the FL allegedly "visited"). It's so confusing, I'm not even sure if the monsters' presence in the ML's domain is like a state secret from the general public by him and the imperial family, since when he defeated the ones in the forest he ordered his knights not to spread it around.
Ok, I know shit about Cthulhu mythos, but after hearing these gods come from Lovecraft, this is what I thought I could ("allegedly") figure out through "research" (corrections and additions WELCOME):
_"Blind Idiot"(the ML?) is the nickname of "the god" Azathoth.
_"Crawling Chaos" (Maybe that's Nia?) is the nickname of "the god" Nyarlathotep
_The "elephant head god": ...Chaugnar Faugn?? (if it is, it's a *vampire* elephant?? wtf...)
_The "hood and cloak god": ...The King in Yellow?? (whatever that is...)
Ugh, why is the mirror there, now?? That darn thing keeps teleporting all over the place, causing trouble!! Now it's showing up there, but how the heck did Hathor's servant girl manage to get her hands on one of them, to transport it there ?? I know since chap 184 that the flower girl who serves Hathor has been spying on Horuseth through that flower stuck inside Horus' pants, but how the heck did the mirror come into her hands this time?? Last time, it was Sekhmet who had both mirrors, in chap 186) Did Sekhmet send one of them mirrors to Hathor or something? (unless there were more only two of those mirrors?) I swear that thing is a deus ex machina
Everytime she uses one of the Blood Cult Master's sword techniques I swoon like crazy! (he's obviously a Xianxia cultivator, and I used to be such a Xianxia BL addict...). We've already got some of Water Sister's and Temptation Gramps' backstories, now I really CRAVE the Blood Cult Master's! (Especially, given how it's HIS power that gives her that cool sword fighting!)
Lol it's hard to take it seriously with these dialogue exchanges.
FL: "You startled me! Why did you sneak up on me without making any sound?!"
ML: "Well, I heard you calling, and teleported"
FL: "Sure... what are we having for dinner?" (...I think I LOVE this girl's personality)
Lol he's such a cosmic stupid dork while she's so painfully logical and down-to-earth. Love the contrast.