
"You looked like a real family for a moment."
Oh hey look: a win-win situation. Why drag the child back to that horrible situation? Even if you want him for the throne, it looks like he'll have a much happier life with these royals. Strengthen relations and all that. Plus, since bird people are both genders, it doesn't matter if our main couple has a boy or a girl.
At least, this is where I see this going.

This chapter was like turning off the engine at an intersection.
Yeah, Jia did a crappy thing in the past. She's the only one who moved passed it. The two of you don't even want the same things anymore. And like everyone else is saying, that editor just needs to peace out; if his HR department knew, it would be a conflict of interest so they shouldn't be pushing him to remain her editor.

Well, with the way his father acts, I thought pimping his son out happened at a much younger age. Not that it's right (because clearly he knows he can do this despite what the first time looks like,) but he's such trash I wouldn't have put it past him to have subjected his child to it. Hell, if we find out he pimped out his wife while she was alive (I think I remember she's dead,) that would fit his shitty personality.
Our boys need happiness soon. May the aunt rip the dad apart legally to the nth degree.

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.
"Wow, you're so skinny!"
Except her boobs are each bigger than her head. I understand it is a comment about how she has been deprived of food but there are women who have body proportions to where they would be underweight and still have curves, just not that large. And those villainess dresses must be made of magic to not only stay on but also keep her ladies lofted. I've friends as large and they don't like working out because they have to wear 2-3 sports bras so they don't get hit in the face. Those dresses would be a nightmare for them.
Yah also boobs don’t defy, gravity like that