I totally agree with @Kattons. You took the right words out of my mouth.
It’s not like the MC is obligated to elaborate to Mimi that he knows/senses Mimi has feelings for him. MC can but isn’t obligated to. Mimi has valid reasons to reject MC because of his past experiences and trauma, from what I remember. Still he needs to stand ground on what he said to the MC; he rejected him and wanted to treat themselves as subordinates and superior treatment as what it is supposed to be. And you can call it sulking in the MC’s side that he’s actually treating him as it is which is surprisingly different to the ML’s expectations, but he brought this on himself, and the MC is responding to your answer or acting as what it should be when one is rejected, respectful, and finally “moved on”. It is undeniable that ML is sulking too. Like bro is giving you what you supposedly want and yet you still have a problem.
Anyways, I DON’T HATE ANY PARTIES. I just don’t want any hatred coming onto the MC and ML. They’re both aho, but more on Mimi, but it’s understandable. I’m actually loving their love story since it’s not fast to the point of being unreasonable imo. And of course, there’s gonna be internal struggle between the main characters which is relatable and add depths to their characters.
Honestly i don’t think zhangli is being mean or passive agresive.
Mimi rejected him and wanted to be treated normaly, so zhangli did that.
Mimi is upset that zhangli si treating him different but mc is showing him that THIS way is his normal way to treat others, and the way he treated mimi was special.
Mimi asked something (directly or indirectly) and mc complied.
Zhangli is sulking no doubt about it XD.
But well mimi has to realize that he cant expect mc to keep treating him in this overly sweet and clearly flirting manner and yet reject him
*Did make an account to say this? Yes I did *
The next chapter will be on my birthday I’m so excited but please if you can release it a bit early please do I can’t wait btw you both are sulking 🥲
Thats a good thing zhangli is treating the king a little ‘ differently’ now bcz he(the king/mimi) won’t be able to realise his true feelings for zhangli
Ahhhhhh! I can’t really wait for the next update😭
people protest with zhangli which is out of character, but to be honest I am satisfied with what he did, I mean I think he did it on purpose so that our king is at least aware of his feelings and wants to fight for those feelings because if he keeps pretending like nothing has happened in the previous chapter it was even more out of context. I know maybe lately the story has started to get a little off track but actually that’s because now we’re starting to get into the real development of our main character with the tyrant king and actually this is what I’ve been waiting for because, again, this is a bl romance story and what I want to see is developing a couple’s love in this story, it’s not about the cases that happen here and there in this story and I will underline that the cases that happen here and there are just to be a clue for what will happen next, but now we’re really getting into it. The real development is about the tyrant king’s love for our main character
It hurts that Zhangli’s heart is broken and Mimi refuses to show him love, but I think Zhangli should show him the difference between loving and being forced, so he can finally open his heart and tell him his true feelings.
They are both sulking tbh, but fr I thought Zhangli was more mature about this love he is pursuing. He clearly wants his original Stone back, so why play sulky mind games with him now, it seems a lil out of character. Even if it could work it still feels like he would force a confession out of him when he is still not ready 😅
(Oh and last thing – I will ABSOLUTELY admit that people doing the passive aggressive guilt trip thing after I’ve rejected them is something I have…sigh…a lot of experience with, so I am probably EXTREMELY sensitive about it. If you’ve never experienced it, you might not understand how upsetting that can be when you’re rejecting someone whose a friend – basically, IMHO, it’s obviously fine and natural to be saddened by a romantic rejection, it’s just if the rejection is coming from a friend, you do need to remember that the rejection is coming from someone who cares about you, who doesn’t want to hurt you, and who you also ABSOLUTELY have the ability to hurt)
(Quick example – not a perfect one but I think you’ll be able to see what I’m driving at: I remember years ago a close friend of mine got married. We lived pretty far from each other, so at the time our friend groups didn’t overlap a lot. During a conversation, somehow we got onto the subject of her mostly having male friends. I think I laughed and said something like, “well, that’s all good, that’s just who you jive with! I hope I meet them at the wedding!”
Her face fell, she sighed sadly, and she said something I’ll never forget, “A few of them I hope, most of them aren’t going to be in my life much longer now that I’m officially off the market.”
No trouble bubble! And your read is entirely valid!! We also haven’t gotten to the end of this, so as I said, I’m reserving final judgement anyway!
AND, wherever the author goes with it, the story has built up so much goodwill with me that even if I PERSONALLY don’t like it, it’ll barely be a blip on a super enjoyable read! 😂
1) I’m reacting in real time to this – since we don’t have a resolution yet, I don’t want to assume where the author is ultimately going with this subplot, so I’m making no final judgements!
2) authors have every right to make decisions in their stories that I disagree with, and something might work for you that doesn’t work for me and that’s absolutely fine! 💖
3) I’m also basing my opinion on the specific tone and content of this particular story – in my case at least, I wouldn’t bat an eye at any of this in stories that are tonally and thematically different
@MissEve thanks for explaining Mimis past, i didn’t quite understand it bc of the translation. But even though, i dont think that Zhang Li is acting “passive-aggressive”. As a lerson beliw already pointed out, he is being reasonable. He got rejected so he stops trying to get closer to Mimi. About being friends – ge is definitely still friends wirh Mimi, but not the stone. “Stone” already said he and Zhang Li are only superior and subordinate. So when he will “meet” Mimi he will probably act normal. Also he is really upset bc of rejection, which is why he is so emthuonless
Just to be entirely clear, the repeated flashbacks to Mimi’s childhood assault is the trauma that’s causing him to panic over physical touch and be terrified of “dominating” Zhang Li (the flashbacks and the moment Zhang Li turns into himself as a child in his nightmare) – he absolutely *100%* does have trauma from sexual assault he’s dealing with
(On a personal level, I should also clarify that I’m reading/interpreting Zhang Li’s behaviour as passive aggressive – seems to me he doesn’t have to either be pursuing him or being strictly professional with him, if he actually cares he could just continue being his friend, but I actually do not know if that’s what the author is trying to write, so your mileage may understandably vary on that! 💖)
Looking at this situation from realistic lenses, Zhang li essentially is right in that, he was crushing on Mimi and treated him differently, and when he got rejected, there was no reason to keep pushing it. He’s not “being mean”, he’s being reasonable. A rejection is a rejection and the least you could do is to stop making advances after being told to stop. That’s called being a decent human being.
Mimi, on the other hand, rejected him despite liking him, and no matter why the rejection happened, you should never expect someone you explicitly rejected to keep pursuing you. It’s not a “he doesn’t deserve it” situation even if the feelings are actually mutual. He did something, he has to accept the consequences of it.
Although, in this specific case, Zhang li might be doing a big-brain play to make Mimi realise he is whipped for him. But that’s besides the point.
Tbh I understand them both. Zhang Li did everything to prove his undying loyalty to the king, now he just tries to slowly get closer with him, but he got rejected so hard for (from his side) no reason. He is a human being, he can become angry and pissed off. I don’t think Mimi has a “trauma”. More like, as we seen in previous chapter, he thinks that love – is a sacrifice and doesn’t want Zhang Li to “sacrifice” himself. So Mimi rejects Zhang Li, knowing well that they are both in love, Mimi just doesn’t want for Zhang Lu to suffer
Little master
@Alibaba, ikr, ow well…amma be like them in the future🙈🍉
Alibaba
My people, why the long comments 😭
Arima
Eugh now I sound like a simp….
Arima
Jealous hottie
FrancescaObelia08
I totally agree with @Kattons. You took the right words out of my mouth.
It’s not like the MC is obligated to elaborate to Mimi that he knows/senses Mimi has feelings for him. MC can but isn’t obligated to. Mimi has valid reasons to reject MC because of his past experiences and trauma, from what I remember. Still he needs to stand ground on what he said to the MC; he rejected him and wanted to treat themselves as subordinates and superior treatment as what it is supposed to be. And you can call it sulking in the MC’s side that he’s actually treating him as it is which is surprisingly different to the ML’s expectations, but he brought this on himself, and the MC is responding to your answer or acting as what it should be when one is rejected, respectful, and finally “moved on”. It is undeniable that ML is sulking too. Like bro is giving you what you supposedly want and yet you still have a problem.
Anyways, I DON’T HATE ANY PARTIES. I just don’t want any hatred coming onto the MC and ML. They’re both aho, but more on Mimi, but it’s understandable. I’m actually loving their love story since it’s not fast to the point of being unreasonable imo. And of course, there’s gonna be internal struggle between the main characters which is relatable and add depths to their characters.
Kattons
Honestly i don’t think zhangli is being mean or passive agresive.
Mimi rejected him and wanted to be treated normaly, so zhangli did that.
Mimi is upset that zhangli si treating him different but mc is showing him that THIS way is his normal way to treat others, and the way he treated mimi was special.
Mimi asked something (directly or indirectly) and mc complied.
Zhangli is sulking no doubt about it XD.
But well mimi has to realize that he cant expect mc to keep treating him in this overly sweet and clearly flirting manner and yet reject him
ISimp4HuaCheng
The last panel…………. is he a yandere but not a tsundere?💀 i hope so
Zeebee
*Did make an account to say this? Yes I did *
The next chapter will be on my birthday I’m so excited but please if you can release it a bit early please do I can’t wait btw you both are sulking 🥲
Somethingthatiusedtoknow
I just love this manga. I can’t explain ❤️
Ax3l
AHHHHH THIS IS TO MUCH 😫
I cant wait for the next update 🤗
Noname
Thats a good thing zhangli is treating the king a little ‘ differently’ now bcz he(the king/mimi) won’t be able to realise his true feelings for zhangli
Ahhhhhh! I can’t really wait for the next update😭
Someone_in_the_cliff
people protest with zhangli which is out of character, but to be honest I am satisfied with what he did, I mean I think he did it on purpose so that our king is at least aware of his feelings and wants to fight for those feelings because if he keeps pretending like nothing has happened in the previous chapter it was even more out of context. I know maybe lately the story has started to get a little off track but actually that’s because now we’re starting to get into the real development of our main character with the tyrant king and actually this is what I’ve been waiting for because, again, this is a bl romance story and what I want to see is developing a couple’s love in this story, it’s not about the cases that happen here and there in this story and I will underline that the cases that happen here and there are just to be a clue for what will happen next, but now we’re really getting into it. The real development is about the tyrant king’s love for our main character
Mikaela
It hurts that Zhangli’s heart is broken and Mimi refuses to show him love, but I think Zhangli should show him the difference between loving and being forced, so he can finally open his heart and tell him his true feelings.
Xia Sini
They are both sulking tbh, but fr I thought Zhangli was more mature about this love he is pursuing. He clearly wants his original Stone back, so why play sulky mind games with him now, it seems a lil out of character. Even if it could work it still feels like he would force a confession out of him when he is still not ready 😅
काट्ज़े
PLEASE quickly upload next part it is sooo exciting guys I really want mimi have to confess his real feelings to zhangli😉
funtimeS
I WAS HYPERVENTILATING AT THE END DUDE THIS BACK AND FORTH IS WILD
kzvijy
just admit it! this is heart drenching but exciting at the same time😭😭
My my my
Oh for God sake! Just admit it! Both of you!
MissEve
(Oh and last thing – I will ABSOLUTELY admit that people doing the passive aggressive guilt trip thing after I’ve rejected them is something I have…sigh…a lot of experience with, so I am probably EXTREMELY sensitive about it. If you’ve never experienced it, you might not understand how upsetting that can be when you’re rejecting someone whose a friend – basically, IMHO, it’s obviously fine and natural to be saddened by a romantic rejection, it’s just if the rejection is coming from a friend, you do need to remember that the rejection is coming from someone who cares about you, who doesn’t want to hurt you, and who you also ABSOLUTELY have the ability to hurt)
(Quick example – not a perfect one but I think you’ll be able to see what I’m driving at: I remember years ago a close friend of mine got married. We lived pretty far from each other, so at the time our friend groups didn’t overlap a lot. During a conversation, somehow we got onto the subject of her mostly having male friends. I think I laughed and said something like, “well, that’s all good, that’s just who you jive with! I hope I meet them at the wedding!”
Her face fell, she sighed sadly, and she said something I’ll never forget, “A few of them I hope, most of them aren’t going to be in my life much longer now that I’m officially off the market.”
She was, by the way, absolutely correct.)
MissEve
@jhsbsjdins
No trouble bubble! And your read is entirely valid!! We also haven’t gotten to the end of this, so as I said, I’m reserving final judgement anyway!
AND, wherever the author goes with it, the story has built up so much goodwill with me that even if I PERSONALLY don’t like it, it’ll barely be a blip on a super enjoyable read! 😂
💖💖💖!
MissEve
Oh and a little further clarification!
1) I’m reacting in real time to this – since we don’t have a resolution yet, I don’t want to assume where the author is ultimately going with this subplot, so I’m making no final judgements!
2) authors have every right to make decisions in their stories that I disagree with, and something might work for you that doesn’t work for me and that’s absolutely fine! 💖
3) I’m also basing my opinion on the specific tone and content of this particular story – in my case at least, I wouldn’t bat an eye at any of this in stories that are tonally and thematically different
jhsbsjdins
@MissEve thanks for explaining Mimis past, i didn’t quite understand it bc of the translation. But even though, i dont think that Zhang Li is acting “passive-aggressive”. As a lerson beliw already pointed out, he is being reasonable. He got rejected so he stops trying to get closer to Mimi. About being friends – ge is definitely still friends wirh Mimi, but not the stone. “Stone” already said he and Zhang Li are only superior and subordinate. So when he will “meet” Mimi he will probably act normal. Also he is really upset bc of rejection, which is why he is so emthuonless
MissEve
@jhsbsjdins
Just to be entirely clear, the repeated flashbacks to Mimi’s childhood assault is the trauma that’s causing him to panic over physical touch and be terrified of “dominating” Zhang Li (the flashbacks and the moment Zhang Li turns into himself as a child in his nightmare) – he absolutely *100%* does have trauma from sexual assault he’s dealing with
(On a personal level, I should also clarify that I’m reading/interpreting Zhang Li’s behaviour as passive aggressive – seems to me he doesn’t have to either be pursuing him or being strictly professional with him, if he actually cares he could just continue being his friend, but I actually do not know if that’s what the author is trying to write, so your mileage may understandably vary on that! 💖)
💞😘
Aaaaijustmadetheacctocommentthis
Looking at this situation from realistic lenses, Zhang li essentially is right in that, he was crushing on Mimi and treated him differently, and when he got rejected, there was no reason to keep pushing it. He’s not “being mean”, he’s being reasonable. A rejection is a rejection and the least you could do is to stop making advances after being told to stop. That’s called being a decent human being.
Mimi, on the other hand, rejected him despite liking him, and no matter why the rejection happened, you should never expect someone you explicitly rejected to keep pursuing you. It’s not a “he doesn’t deserve it” situation even if the feelings are actually mutual. He did something, he has to accept the consequences of it.
Although, in this specific case, Zhang li might be doing a big-brain play to make Mimi realise he is whipped for him. But that’s besides the point.
jhsbsjdins
Tbh I understand them both. Zhang Li did everything to prove his undying loyalty to the king, now he just tries to slowly get closer with him, but he got rejected so hard for (from his side) no reason. He is a human being, he can become angry and pissed off. I don’t think Mimi has a “trauma”. More like, as we seen in previous chapter, he thinks that love – is a sacrifice and doesn’t want Zhang Li to “sacrifice” himself. So Mimi rejects Zhang Li, knowing well that they are both in love, Mimi just doesn’t want for Zhang Lu to suffer
MissEve
Babebabebabe you gave him a panic attack and then demanded he date you 😂😂😭 and now you’re acting like a passive aggressive dickhead 😂😂😂
Again, in a lot of things I’d hand wave it, buuuuuuut if we’re taking trauma this seriously…
Apologize
Bonzzo
dude calm down a little…
they’re both acting like a little kids.
Mimi have some trust issues, complexes and anger issues rn
and Zhang Li is sulking & being kinda rude to Mimi.
namobs
This story is good, I can’t wait for next chapter!
TussalRain
Mimi doesn’t deserve this, it’s makeing me cry, i can’t wait for new episode
FallenLove
Ahem don’t mind me 📸📸📸
rumble tumble bee
im excited👁️👄👁️👉👈✨
mhmkha001
Wu Wu I have to wait for next week Wednesday ToT ToT