In CH 191, Garlan realises that the ML Heimos will inevitably clash with his King Brother. He (Garlan), constantly rejects the idea of being together with Heimos and yet suddenly decides, it's best to lie about his feelings towards Heimos and say he also likes him, to avoid a "tragic" future.

Characters:

• • MC has long blonde hair and white skin, he usually gets described as very good looking, like an elf, like a fairy, a beauty loved by the Goddess of Beauty and Love. Author says MC's Luck stat is E, but his Face is S. His appereance sounds very fem, but his character is still masculine. It's just that people who pampers him has a filter to whatever he does, he appears very cute and weak like a little paw kitten. He's also softer to ML because he doesn't want to really hurt him. Once, his brother said, "Garlan, you don't understand how scary a man can be." and he's like, "I'm -fRICking- a Man too", but he's actually a teen inside, he never got to grow up and have fun, he's lived 6 lives not touching anyone.

• • ML is the typical Tall, Black hair and Manly, what I really like is his character. He had a traumatic childhood so he's extremely sensitive to animosity. It's implied that Original-Timeline!Garlan detests Heimos and butts head with him. OT!Garlan also got involved in an event that thoroughly breaks ML's hope in humanity. On the flipside, ML's like a wolf cub or lion cub, when you treat him with kindness he recognises you as family forever. When Present-Timeline!Garlan treats him cautiously, he thought aww little guy got scared. When PT!Garlan treats him well (because Garlan doesn't want to hit a kid who's not hostile to him YET) Heimos gets pulled in and grows to care about Garlan. It is hinted very early why Heimos falls in love. The way he always picks the WORST place to confess his most fragile feeling is a kind of special skill.

• • MC's entourage is so cute, they fangirl/boy about him. Prince! Prince, praise me! Prince is awesome! I believe Prince!

• • King Kamos is very cute too, I love his character and his brother-con. Really important to note, that even though he spoils Garlan, he will not joke around with kingdom matters. He is not particularly revolutionary king, but he is powerful and is good enough for the standard of the world. At first I doubted him, when he listed reasons why he thinks Garlan is the perfect heir, I just think, 'haha yea ok, I know you just want to hug milk bun boi everyday and have him call you big brother' but he's serious. He doesn't joke about the throne.

Countries:

I'm fascinated by the world building. The surrounding countries story and climate is fleshed too. Yalun-Landis is placed smack in the middle of continent, enjoying the best climate, soil and terrain. It's warm all year round, only two months of winter and no snow. It's not very hot either (everyone wears cloaks and boots). To the West, there are desert, to the North, cold snowy plains. They have two main allies, Tasta and Kanal, one is military aid, the other is friendly kingdom who aided them with food during dire times. There are two kingdoms in north and west often attacking Y-L during winter because they don't have enough food.

There are problems described that Garlan feels are weakening the kingdom, so he works step-by-step to mold it to a system he feels will make Yalun-Landis stable and stronger. It's kinda modeled after cn, but I can accept it because the reasoning makes sense. Garlan also uses the forces available in the world and devises his own schemes to gain control, so it's neat. Both uses his transmigration backstory and shows us his capability.

People often discuss whether Prince Garlan or Prince Heimos should rule. The answer is obvious for us, but while Garlan is restricted by prince status and can't show off his policy making skills, Young Heimos is off winning wars, basically being a mini-Kamos. People only knows that there are invaders from north and west, and King Kamos is a deterrent for their enemies. In truth, they are both mini-kamos. If you divide Kamos into two, one will be Garlan (extreme care for citizens) and Heimos (extreme battle power). They should just marry and become dual kings. It's for the best interest of the throne and Yalun-Landis. There will be way less bloodshed in succeeding princes battle if you allow them to get married.

The world allows kings to adopt from distant relative, it's a system I don't often see in other novels. All king's blood have brown skin and golden eyes. Garlan has shining golden eyes, but he looks similar to his mother who is a lowborn. Heimos happens to both have brown skin and gold (red) eyes. Just by looking people can 'gauge' just how worthy each prince are of the king's throne.

Background:

I also really like that it's a brown-skin supremacy setting. OT!Garlan is bothered by this and tries to tan himself. PT!Garlan doesn't really care so he just lets his skin be, and is frequently insulted because of it. I like it, it's the opposite from our world where white is high, brown is low.

I'm guessing long hair and long beard is normal in the kingdom.... Or what the king/prince do is right. Anyway, no one ever singles out Garlan for having long hair or mocks him for looking girly. They clearly recognise him as male person with long hair, and is not surprised he grows his hair long. So there must be many men around with long hairs like him.

Garlan is mostly associated to the sun god for his fairness and law-abiding ways, then goddess of wisdom, and goddess of beauty, goddess of fate. The temple of god of wisdom/medicine is dually used as public school. Goddess of beauty came into being as flowers bloom, and the world has their own flower language (red rose coincidentally have similar meaning as our world). Goddess of fate/star manages the thread of fate and can see the past and the future. The god of sun seems to have authority like a king, because god of war is willing to kneel to the just god. People also makes oath to the sun god, because he oversees the fulfillment of oaths made. There is also god of plague and underworld. I don't know what the night god oversees, I think just for witty people who likes to scheme or mystery? He's a foil to the sun god, their believers don't like each other. Garlan is not associated to the night god, so only sun god's animal mascots and myths gets described in detail.

MC (Garlan) eventually returns to his original 'world' that actually is SAME WORLD BUT IN THE FUTURE!!!!!! In the original tragedy, a old god (think the Titan) wrestle with the gods (think Olympus gods) because she doesn't want to succumb to her fate. She is god before anything is there and was preordained to disappear and turn into 'all things'. Her fighting her fate ruins 'all things' and destroyed Yalun-landis's gods who were born from her too. As a result Yalun Landis turns into mere myth and legend like lost Atlantis.

When Garlan died in past!Yalun-Landis, a messenger told him that the gods didn't curse him, it was minor gods, who weren't the immortal gods, resenting him for dying. That resentment turns into curse because the immortal gods were defeated and can't protect him. When he was born, the Major Gods celebrated and gave him all the best things they have, that's why Garlan is just, beautiful, and wise. He also shows several time that he's intelligent and shrewd (god of night). Goddess of Fate often visits him and tells him the future, in my head she's about to turn into a gossipy elder sister!

It was great to fully realise that the gods love him and always on his side! It's correct to call him the son of gods!! I'm so happy when his big king-bro came back!!!! When the story moves to new direction, all the foreshadowing has been put before it, like how "Garlan has always been called 'The Wise King' not wise emperor" later it's revealed Yalun-Landis doesn't become empire under his rule, "The young boy becomes King" and later Kamos died before Garlan comes of age, and "Son of Gods" This author is so good!!!!!!!

in fact, the author noted that the teacher is the one most "obsessed" with MC because he's the only one who was by MC's side in all five lives.

I don't know what chapter it was because MTL didn't put the chapter title but the first situation was where people were rioting and killed one soldier and injured another; he's not one of those righteous characters who think they're right in any situation but instead:

The little body of the child stood in front of the man who was nearly twice as tall as him.

He looked up.

He looked at the man's eyes without fear.

He said: "The national law of Aaron Landis cannot be trampled on."

His voice sounded loudly.

He is very selfless and this is what he said to the person who led the riot (because his children were taken by thieves or cultists who would have had sacrificed them if not for MC who used his body to get inside where the children were taken) ; in the end, not only did he manage to kill civilians and nobles, he also killed one of the knights who helped with subduing the cultist and injured another.

"I sympathize with you, Gia, but I will not forgive your sins."

Especially the cat arc; it was so cute! "Little prince."

When Camus dies

When garlan dies and tells Heimos not to follow him and to take care of the country

When they all reincarnated and met each other at the end

e.g. he started to slowly introduce liberation of s*avery but knows that this would have negative impact on people's interests. So he does it within his means, he liberated s*aves that helped with the first war, thus setting up a situation that the owners are more than willing to hand over their s*aves

All his friends came to help when a country called the Gasdads invaded his homeland and killed Camus, and he was cornered into the capital

The main characters, Garlan and Heimos, are fantastic - I really fell in love with them, by the end of the novel I wanted nothing more than for the two of them to just finally be happy.

There’s also some fantastic side characters, such as King Camos, when reading I just wished so much he had a separate novel for himself... Really, I love him more than the MCs of some of my favorite novels...

Every minor character had something unique about them, the author did an amazing job.

Although this is a danmei novel, the setting is western fantasy, but the author’s worldbuilding was fantastic.

The story’s about Garlan’s journey, but it takes a few very interesting plot twists along the way (that neither he, nor I expected). I really liked how nothing is handwaved away - the author has a good explanation for every event in the novel, even the ones you didn’t even think to question.

After around the first half of the novel there start appearing some serious knives aimed straight for the reader’s heart - although I knew from the start that it was a Happy Ending novel, the last few chapters had me crying so hard I had to take a vacation from work the day I finished it.

But don’t worry! The ending is going to blow your mind, it’s absolutely perfect and I wouldn’t change anything about it.

Plus there are some extras after the main story which are INCREDIBLY cute that will heal your heart for sure.

What can I say here but that they’re perfect for each other?

Like it’s mentioned in the summary, there are a few hilarious situations where Heimos confesses his feelings to Garlan at places he previously killed him. At those scenes I both wanted to laugh and cry - on one hand it was truly so funny, on the other, poor Heimos didn’t know why he was being rejected by the love of his life.

By the way, although this is enemies to lovers (where just one person knows they’re enemies), it actually becomes enemies to the closest of friends to lovers.

Even before they get together they grow really close, and you just know that they would do anything for each other.

Of course, the author throws us some plot twists that really made my cry my eyes out for these two. But it was all worth it reading in the end. I just wish I could read a thousand more book about these two...

Garlan had been kidnapped, and Heymos (ML) learns of this after interrogating the person that was with Garlan, and after learning of what happened, the text says Garlan contracted his pupils. How? Garlan wasn't even there!

So MC gor killed 4 times by this Monster of a ML and at his 5th life he giving up and doesn't want to be the kin and go back to his original world and just wants to travel around the world and stay low-key. But in this life because of MC trying to be low-key he met ML and ML was like: oh he cute, he gonna be my lil brother.

I'ma still continue my opinion later just wait for me.