I know everyone is pissed because of long past, but I'm really enjoying it cuz we get to see how they fell in love ( I don't like it when they show the past for like one or two chapters ) I don't feel emotions with characters that belong to past but this time we even get to see even palace maids reaction to them being lovey dovey, all this past really makes sense when you see Ian's love as well cuz he doesn't know this past and he doesn't Brian he's a whole new person, he feels like he's being loved only because of his past self (kinda true) not to forget everything and everyone in new kingdom makes him feel left out, he constantly have to listen to ppl praise him becuz of his past self which he doesn't remember but we readers now do so we may share same sympathy as Sol cuz we have known brian who will be ian after 1000 years, now if we were to love someone as deeply we would try to find traces of them everywhere but Ian don't want to be someone's replacement which is totally valid, (idk of I'm making sense) I'm just trying to say I really enjoy this whole past scenario becuz we get the depth of every single character through it