allow me to complain about this ONE THING

okay LISTEN PLS, i beg. before anything, i want to say that I’m very happy with who the ml ended up being. *eye twitching*, HOWEVER…
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I feel like it wasn’t executed well in my humble opinion. while we do get some sort of understanding of the first prince’s feelings from time to time in the beginning of the story, it felt like the first good HALF of the story was mainly focused on her and biseol, very intensely too, so it really made me feel like there was a higher chance he would be the ml. (even though I do understand that it was mainly biseol’s POVs we were getting) it wasn’t until the incident where mc got drugged, when biseol & the first prince started fighting & yeon had to break them up, also yeon getting mad at biseol for suspecting hamil of poisoning her tea, (also when biseol almost died), that they got distant with each other and only THEN did it seem like biseol dropped off the face of the earth and the story seemed to focus more on her and the first prince. I know a part of it could be because he’s now different from how he was before, since he had human blood and kind of became closer to his demon side rather than human, so thus lost some of the strong emotions he had before, but I feel like that was just some quick excuse to drop him as a love interest and focus more on the main couple. idk how else to explain it but I just feel like I was lead on FOR SO UNBELIEVABLY LONG, to think he was the ml only for him to not be. i feel like my poor baby was just thrown off to the side and became a side character in one chapter after so much of the story had passed with him being one of the main narrators for the majority of it. I’m getting Jacob from twilight vibes and I’m NOT LIKING IT


what I wish could have been done instead was focus more on who the actual ml was, in other words, shine more significance on hers and ml’s storyline THE WAY they executed it for her and biseol’s. I feel like he got wayyy more screen time (if you will) with yeon (not because he’s by her side all the time so he’s naturally there and getting a lot of screen time bc she’s the main character but i mean in a romantic way) than the actual ml did which is what lead me to thinking, damn maybe biseol really is the male lead. maybe that’s what the author wanted, cool, but I feel like that’s poor writing in my opinion. anyway, I digress, after all the story isn’t strictly meant to be about romance but about yeon fighting to be the next emperor, which was wonderfully written. this is just a little complaining on my part because i’m coping with biseol not being the male lead, but I’m also extremely happy with it being the first prince. it’s just bittersweet because we obviously know how intensely he feels things so for him to see THE ONE PERSON HE CARES ABOUT LITERALLY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, be with someone else, it hurts ma heart you know? he’s like my child, i balled when i thought he died. but i know he just wants what’s best for yeon so if she’s happy, he’s happy. also im on ch 113 so idk how things are gonna end just yet but i wanted to get this out and I could no longer read because IT WAS BUGGING ME.

I LOVE YOU MY BABY BISEOL </3