beta
I’ve not caught up since the returning to the capital boat chapters but timeskip Abel is so stupid that it’s making this hard to read. I feel like before the timeskip there was evidence he understood more than he let on and, as the adult in the situation, his choice to protect and later die for the prince was a calculated one because he knew he was the only one who could protect him. Now it feels like he lost all of those layers and he’s just an optimistic idiot with no depth. It feels like the tone has changed from mostly serious at the start with some funny moments to comedic with few serious moments is throwing off some of the characterisation for me. Honestly, I wish this were just a childcare manhwa rather than a BL because those chapters were definitely the peak of the story for me.
(also given the novel spoilers I don’t think the ML is very cool either, lmao)