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bl readers hate fun and silliness and being unserious. like UNCLENCH. this manhwa has been this way since the start and yall got warned on how messy this will be in the synopsis the genre tags are right there ffs!! comedy!! drama!!

sorry the author didn't go the melodramatic route like 1794737 other bls did but yall wondering why people who are invested in this haven't dropped yet when y'all don't understand the target demographic and that is people who can take a whole lot of drama and comedy and roll with it!! just please get with the bit and enjoy the entertainment delivered to us by these fools

YURI!!!!! YURI!!! MIA!! AAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAA AAAAAAA I LOVE WOMEN!! I LOVE WOMEN!!! I LOVE WOMEN!!!! IM CRYING I LOVE WOMEN SO MUCH IM TRMEBLONG RN WOEMN KISSING WOMEN KISSING

"Why is Mystia so insistent on following the game?" "She's already changed so much why is she denying it?" "The MC is so stupid and frustrating"

Are questions that I see a lot and it's actually kinda frustrating. The reason why she's so insistent on the game's destiny is because she thinks it's the best outcome for everyone but her (see volume 2, chapter 5, she says that Eric meeting Alice would bring him happiness) that's why she's trying to change her own unfortunate circumstances but still pushing for Raid and Eric to fall for Alice (mostly Raid but, anyways). Its her character flaw that makes sense and drives the plot forward and something that has been addressed and still needs to be worked on (First seen in chapter 5 where she initially thinks Eric is "bugged" and that the "protagonist" can fix him)(chapter 11 , where she visits Ali, the janitor, for advice on Feena Naini.) Its a whole combination of things, Mystia's information on everyone is based on the game and so far, everything has been spot on (at least in her perspective) so it would make sense for her to think that her life and everyone's destinies would follow. She sees how Raid's and Eric's character and fates have changed but this terrifies her because she thinks her actions are BAD for them. She also thinks that Raid and Eric falling in love with Alice is inevitable, not because she thinks they're programmed to be that way and that they have no humanity but because she thinks its natural fate and the only reason they aren't falling in love is because of the changes she's made. She thinks that because of her, Raid became a bro con and that's why he wont fall in love with Alice.

Remember that Mystia is a girl with low self esteem, so low that she doesn't even fathom the thought that she can make positive changes in somebody's life let alone fall in love her (again, we can see this in volume 2, chapter 5, where in the text box it literally says "what if someone else whisked his loneliness away?" while little Eric is kissing her on the cheek lol) that's why she overcompensates by forcing people into their game destiny (aka their best outcome) and not even daring to make friends because she thinks she'll drag them down with her. This is also why I think her being oblivious to their romantic advances makes sense and its because she really just can't fathom someone liking her romantically. I love her so much my little pathetic meow meow

Hot take but I think MC, Mystia Aren, being oblivious to everything around her makes sense and actually makes a nice storytelling device.

Its been established that Mystia in her past life has bad social skills (bad enough that even she actually refused to play Kyun-Love because of it.) and died when she was just 16. And then after that, she was born into the Aren household where once again, she is considered weird and unsociable and so she doesn't get along with girls her age, which she doesn't mind but that means all she has as reference for normalcy and social skills are her crazy obsessed attendants and her doting parents. And her not being sociable (at least she thinks so) has affected her self perception and has given her low self esteem, its subtle but she thinks of herself negatively and as someone who's off putting and this is something thats INGRAINED in her, from her past life, to being reborn as Mystia Aren, know arrogant brat, and her early life experience as Mystia Aren.

She doesn't think she's likeable, coupled with the fact she still thinks the game's destiny is still rolling, and you've got a girl that wouldn't even think of someone loving her romantically. Lets also remember that no one in the main ensemble has outright professed their love to her, she still thinks that they're all friends and to be fair they've acted as such in front of her.

She's excused Eric's possessiveness as just him being threatened that their friendship will get stolen, which makes sense because she's the first friend he's made thats genuine. While she's excused Raid's actions as him being possessive as a man with his fiancée, which one would normally interpret as romantic, but again, she doesn't think his romantic cupid's arrow would ever point to her (game thingy and because she doesn't think of herself as someone likeable) so she just thinks he's like that because they're fiancé's not because he likes her romantically. As with the other ensemble, all they've really done is be nice to her. Their actions in front of her can easily be excused as friendly and their dialogue's with her are vague enough that it tiptoes being friendly or subtle flirting and guess what she thinks of them and herself?

And for my second point her obliviousness as a story telling device, I think its a really good contrast to the outlandish and crazy ensemble. Her being oblivious to the crazy happenings and thoughts of the people around her shrouds them in mystery and unpredictability and as we can see, if we dont get the pages revealing their inner thoughts and them interacting without Mystia, we too would be oblivious, not to their romantic feelings, but to how deep and obsessive and crazy their love for her is. We would've been in the dark about so many events if the story just followed Mystia's perspective, which is how the story surprises us and keeps the story interesting and keeps us on our toes. Until now so much is hidden in the dark and we've only been given hints at it. Melo's identity, the story about the church scandal, the churches branding, her shoes being off when Claus confronted her about Helen, Helen's transfer, how Claus is so informed, Helen's story, and probably more that I missed. This story is honestly so so so good and it sucks that you guys only think of Mystia as a nice MC to the point yall don't even bother to remember her name. Also, another counterpoint to her being boring, she's also quite not right in the head either (its just overshadowed by other people's crazy). Her obsession with Melo is deep too, to the point its one her top reasons why she doesn't want to get condemned, she thinks of Melo as a precious angel and though she thinks of Melo as a precious friend, she said that if she were a guy she would've married Melo which should give you guys more insight on how messed up Mystia's view of friendship is lolz.

i went to check the novel but it seems like the link for the translators website is broken, which sucks cause i was excited to see it just 5 chapters away from finishing (the last update was june of 2023 i think, heartbreaking)

should i re-read this? its been months since I last read till chapter 41 and i remember being so bored yet at the same time so angry that i left a comment review and even rated this 1 star. I've seen people praising the plot and with the officials out im wondering if i missed something in my last read. I take manhwas with heavy premises like this seriously so for me past me to leave a review like that its either the manhwa really is boring or just that i missed something or wasn't reading this with the right perspective.

im still hoping Gren actually gets clean (´°ω°｀) he was cute and and it would be great if Shin gets a family that he hasn't had

I need Shirley and Jacqueline to kiss kiss fall in love... PLEEASEEE

senpai endgame plspslpslspslpslspslspslspls

at chapter 30 and decided to look at the comments bad idea... i feel so bad for Taehwan I kinda wanna drop this now cause ive been spoiled lolz... IDK!!! i wouldn't mind minho as end game (im a sucker for repentance and second chances) BUT they just had to like, paint him (Taehwan) as endgame so early so im kinda attached to him TT so now it sucks seeing him so in love and so sweet with mc knowing that he'll get hurt huhuhuhu. Minho and Woojin are interesting, I'd like to see their romance develop BUT they just had to throw Taehan into the mix ༼;´༎  ༎༽ hoping that Taewhan either exits the series early or we see Taewhan fall in love and get together with a better guy