
I thought for sure it was a body part. I was genuinely surprised it wasn't.

I was thinking a hand or finger. It seemed more "accidental" by way of being cut by an ice skate if someone was knocked on the ice.
If I was mafia, fingers and toes are very painful and easier to remove than facial feature; fingers especially have a lot of brain neuro activity. Ears are cartilage and don't have as many nerve endings. But I do like the idea of preventing "in one ear and out the other."

It's so CUTE! They both want to propose and now we know for sure Leo has a ring (though it looks like it's for him more than it is for JJ.)
I've been imagining it since JJ got the ring. Whoever is proposed to is going to pout that they didn't get to do it first. I'm leaning more to JJ because Leo seems like he's going to get a cold. Based on the packed schedule, Leo better do it soon.
(Also leaning on the idea that Leo will get more than a cold and need to be hospitalized for our drama this time but who knows? We might just get the straight shot to the end game.)

Former high school swimmer. I just read the first chapter and I am stuck on the chapter saying the 400m individual medley is the hardest event in swimming. Do the majority of you think the same?
Because the events no one wanted to do when I was in high school were the 100 butterfly and the 500 freestyle; the entire reason I was even in the fly was because there was only one other event between it and the 500 so it served as a warm up. I was an endurance swimmer so I wouldn't call the 500 that difficult because someone counted for you. In the Olympics, this is the full mile and they still count for you.
But even in the Olympics, near no one looks good after two laps of Butterfly (Yes, Michael Phelps is an exception.) In high school, it's 50. Olympic-sized pools are 50 long so that's a 100. From my perspective, doing butterfly the entire time is the most difficult. With a medley, it's not only easier to count because you switch strokes but as they focus on different muscle groups, you get a bit of a break switching to another stroke.

Take it with a grain of salt. It's fiction, and the author is throwing out what they believed will be believable facts for us readers. Since most of the readers are not infact going to be swimmers of this caliber. Or swimmers at all. Just BL readers.
That said it will be close enough to the truth that it will be believable. They also just want to keep us riveted with out to much jargon and enough plot. Which I like, but you will have people like you who know that it's not quite true or so and be, "that information is wrong." And it still be ok.

You know, I had been thinking for a while if they actually got to the "happy ending," they would have a boy first. ML will likely want a girl first but as the majority parent (because he totally would be,) it wouldn't take long for him to fall for a "mini me."
Maybe the gender-swapped version showed us what can be the ending. Full stop our angel is going to remain the driving force though.

Eugene: "If I jump from here, will you catch me?"
Alexis, internally: "How sick is he? Suggesting to jump off a balcony like that. And with a smile?"
...no? Just my voice screaming? This should be what's going through Alexis' head. Eugene is having bipolar episodes from being sick and his situation overall.
This is why you don't allow someone to be self-righteous with your resources. When they think it is too tough, they have a backdoor to leave.
And in this case, Tiger's mom wasn't even doing the heavy lifting.