I don't like either semes but that isn't even my biggest gripe with this story. I'm annoyed by the whole "seal" thing. I'm not one to cry "I want MC to be super OP and if he has powers, it's a waste to seal them" but this is different: that seal is a death sentence basically. It's not that he has become weak but can have a semblance of a normal life. He is constantly producing magic that cannot be used so he is a ticking time bomb ...how is this a peaceful life? You're telling me that in this world where advanced magic exits, there is no spell to force him to never oppose the king, if that is the desired outcome? He is dependent on people that he needs to have sex with or else he will die a painful death. This is the furthest thing from a peaceful life
Totally agree with your comment. They hail him as a hero but they thank him with this treatment? They could at least just leave him with enough to be able to live freely or like a commoner, if it was just his power quantity that was the problem. But I think the mages or royals were just afraid to lose in a public opinion(?) fight. (Sorry for the bad english)
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The raws go up to chapter 46 and nothing changes. It's the same cycle of torture except that the empress got pregnant (or is pretending to be? the machine learning translator was confusing). In recent chapters MC got kidnapped and raped. But, it's exactly what happened in the frst 5 chapters or so, it just goes on and on forever. Don't expect the emperor to become any less of a worthless piece of shit. MC is so broken that he didn't even try to escape or kill himself at any point even though he looks like a zombie all the time.
Reading this story when I was having a depressing day already was not the move
I'm tired of these garbage stories. I can tolerate stories where one character is a little mean as in not super polite and appear standoffish but get softer when they fall in love....but I get no enjoyment (and I don't understand how anyone else can) from stories where seme blackmails, rapes, terrifies, and asserts his dominance over uke by having awful dubious consent sex (if not straight out rape) with him in front of others despite his protest.....
I wasn't expecting some grand plot from this. Most guideverse stories are super predictable...same goes for most isekai....most anything really. But the second these stories use the amnesia bullshit plot device, it just signals to me "author wanted to make another season and didn't have any good ideas about how to do that other than restarting the relationship" because that's what memory loss is, in these stories: it's a way to take a couple that might have barely started communicating well and shitting all over whatever progress they made
I read the machine translated scans years ago and I'm going to spoil the ending here, don't read it and then bitch about spoilers:
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In the end, Rowe goes back to living with his sister but keep missing Adrian because the poor dude was too damaged at that point from the drugs and the brainwashing of Adrian. Then receives a letter one day. That prompts him to travel and would you look at that.....he meets Adrian at some remote place. His sister goes to the police and keeps looking for him as a missing person but he is with Adrian at some remote place and the last scene shows Adrian looking at the news of his company and drugs and then he walks to Rowe who is sat at a bench in the garden and that's it. The end!
Do you happen to remember how many chapter there are?
I just checked and it has 58 chapters
What the fuck??? ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
I don't think that there has been a single time that I liked the memory loss plot device...everything else, even some toxic tropes, I might like under certain circumstances but never amnesia. The closes I got to not abhoring it was when a few stories used it on ukes who ran away from abusive or just asshole semes and it helped me enjoy seme's suffering to some degree but still, I would rather it is never used again
Some of these comedy ones have been killing it with their memory loss arcs. I’ve been loving the side stories for Neighbors rice cake, Can’t help it, and Payday
Yes, same here, never been a fans, any memories related troupe I despise.... This one is quite refreshing to do tho, so it less frustrating (still do)
I'm getting more and more annoyed with these asshole MLs who act like pieces of shit from the first time they meet MC. It's such a garbage trope and it's annoying because it's basically the age old "cold CEO guy mistreats the poor female MC and treats her like ""the others" and then realises she is "special" " in a different font and it makes me cringe so bad
Yeah it pisses me off
Sometimes in these stories I blame the uke for disappearing and not trying to clear up anything but this is do valid because:
- ML used uke and even told him so multiple times in the beginning
- ML was caught red handed with the long haired guide who is now MC's "friend" in compromising positions
- ML didn't tell MC about his previous guide and let everyone misunderstand
- ML got another guide and didn't explain shit to MC
- Overall, ML played with MC's feelings and kept him in the dark. There is no fault on MC's side. ML caused every misunderstanding and MC stayed for too long
Yes, all that would be enough, but we also know MC has trust issues due to trauma so all that just gives him confirmation there's no need to ask anything because ML will lie again.
I would argue for someone with as many issues as MC has, he was way too reasonable and gave ML too many chances.
It has only been 6 chapters but I forgot why MC is sticking around to begin with...I need to reread chapter 1 because this asshole guide ML ain't shit so, why tve fuck is MC not out of that house already?
It's the money, basically. Compounded with the fact that he's on suspension from his usual job for telling off some spoiled rich kid.