Did the Young Prince’s Kingdom Get Destroyed Today? Chapter 54 Discussion

I was looking for something similar to After Transmigrating into a Book, My Father Emperor Could Hear My Inner Voice - ie something set in the harem but about the children - and this did not disappoint.

There's a nice mix of antagonistic forces (from political enemies, to those in the harem), but the series doesn't lose its heart-warming tone. The MC's interactions with everyone are absolute cuteness (though I do wonder how everyone seems to think its normal for a two year old to be able to do multiplication??? I guess they just assume he's precocious. In fairness, as a Rui beast, it makes sense that he'd be able to do more than an actual two year old, but they don't know that.)

It's nice to see him winning over everyone and how he holds his own morality, despite everyone else pretty much telling him the opposite

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Consort Yi (his mum) telling him he shouldn't save his brothers just because they don't like him. Smh. Thankfully our MC has a greater sense of moral obligation than that.

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The real villains are the adults behind the children who chip away at any sibling relationships they might have had.

I wasn't really prepared for

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the emperor to be the villain developing behind the scenes - with him showing more tendencies to become the autocratic, won't-give-up-my-throne stereotypical emperor than I was expecting

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Not that I have a problem, I just feel like it came out of a the blue. It could've been an interesting examination of how people have different faces/conflicting goals, given how well he treats the MC, but the transition just wasn't there.

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In the beginning, the author loudly proclaims that the emperor is in the prime of his life, his strength abounds etc. etc., but then a year (?) later, he's having to take medicine to deal with high blood pressure and shouldn't be stressed.

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Foreshadowing needed. (Reading more, I'm pretty sure what I thought was an abrupt transition was the author attempting foreshadowing... Because afterwards he goes back to being nice and doting again. In which case... That's not exactly how foreshadowing works)

Other than that, I like the relationship between the MC and Ah Wu, especially as the latter always respects MC's choices and feelings (like redacting his request for the MC to go with him when the MC is sad because he's having to choose between too many people that he loves - he'd rather get the MC later than stress him now).

In conclusion: this is a book that keeps you reading without giving you a heart attack from worrying about the main leads. The supporting characters main traits are "we love the MC, he's so cute" but, you know, sometimes that's exactly what you need. And this book pulls it off well.