Circumstances of a Fallen Lord Chapter reading Discussion

Theres honestly nothing to dislike about this.

The writing, characters, plot and worldbuilding are all great - itd be easier to find something bad rather than list out all the good things (though I cant think of anyting bad with it either!)

Carlton (ML) is a douche at first - like major douche, I honestly did not understand how he could be the ML but he did actually fix his terrible personality, its hard to even correlate all the sh*t he did at first with his current character - and his simping for MC is super cute too, plus the way he doesnt even realize it is so endearing.

Luisen (MC) is super likable, hes not a brain-dead-shou, and he has a cute character, but not the annoying over done cute, just a bit quirky in a way that contrasts his elegant appearance. He was self-admittedly naive and careless in his first life, preferring to party and engage in leisure than fulfill his duties to his people - but we only hear of his past actions, as he has already learned his lesson by the time he regressed - so theres not a lot of displeasure as we get to know him as a changed man first and formost.

The plot gets a bit derailed at times, things come up that stop our characters from going where they said they would, and that snowballs into bigger derailments, but its a choice on the part of the author as opposed to bad planning.

The interactions between the ML and MC are quite honestly so funny. The way ML made up a whole tragic backstory for MC from MC digging up food to eat is hilarious. ML unintentionally treating MC like his wife and even likening themselves to couples ML knows without even realizing what hes doing is honestly adorable - a big scary mercenary man with such high emotional constipation is so funny to see

On that note! ML falls in love way before MC does, I quite like this as opposed to stories where the ML and MC fall inlove mere chapters apart (because really? Is this a princess movie?)

the progression of MLs feelings towards MC feel extremely natural, him going from being disgusted with and hating nobles to feeling pity for MCs 'tragic past' to eventually finding MC cute and wanting to look good for him (lmao!) , the whole way through is explained and not just a sudden change in attitude from proximity like you see in other novels.

Ill say it again to end this, but this is truly a great read - nothing in this is a 'bad' thing, theres certain things that are uncomfortable to read but those are all planned by the author, and not a product of bad story writing.