I’m A Male Mom in a Nightmare Game Chapter 185 Discussion

Currently at the latest chapter uploaded by our dear translator (c185 atm), thus far, this novel is really good.

The characters are rather fleshed out (both main and side characters), as well as the world-building. I can actually see the author putting effort to explain the background of the world of this unlimited flow novel, and well-explained the background of our mysterious MC. Such as his past, his origin and his birth. And why he has an abnormal mystery rate according to the system.

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Aside from his past as a patient in the hospital, the reason being his high mystery rate also involves his origin of being a non-human, a monster born in the void sea. Although not a human initially, for living as a human, as Xu Yintang, in his past twenty years of living, albeit in sanatorium with a crazy woman who took him in as her 'TangTang'... if not a human, what else could he be?

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First of all, as I mentioned previously, all of the characters feel fleshed out, and not 2D at all. Each of our MCs little cubs have their own interesting and unique lively personality.

With Little Darling being the first and oldest and most sensible little cub. He's very polite and friendly, even to our ML. Though he doesn't quite like our ML stealing our MC's attention, it doesn't go beyond the boundaries of clingyness to outright possessiveness. He's also grown as a cub, from being a messy eater that feeds on corpses, he's now learned to eat food cleanly and thoroughly. Though, he became a little more picky after having tasted his step-dad's (ML) precious cores, and his mom's (MC) extra special meals.

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By cores I mean in that one tomb-raid instance arc when our ML and MC met for the first time. And during their travels, our ML killed off a lot of monsters and collected only the most nutritious and tasty food inside of them. Which are colorful little balls that I call cores. Kind of like in xianxia novels, with a cultivators core and all that, but not exactly, if you get what I mean?

Oh and when I meant his mom's extra special meals...

Well, Xu Yintang quite literally fed his three cubs (the fourth one isnt born yet), his own uterus (it grew back though.), during the livestream arc in the novel.

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Continuing on, our Little Darling has experienced tremendous character growth. From being fearful of his mom's strange affection, even to the point of trembling and cowering away, he slowly began to accept it and even like it. Though, it took quite a while for its fear to pass away, he slowly grew closer to his mom, and slowly enjoyed his mom's affection. And soon, he no longer became scared when his mom praises him or shows love to him, instead, he feels happy!

I felt that it should be important to share this character development because when Little Darling was first born, he really was scared of mom. He preferred the fear and despair from the other humans, not his moms loving and affectionate gaze.

Next, our second-born little cub, Second Treasure. Now unlike his fraternal older twin brother, Little Darling, he's not very sensible or sharing.

He prefers monopolising his mother's love, and his clingyness extended to possessiveness. Which is why, when he met our ML, he didn't like him at all. He would always growl and basically hiss at him. (Though, its more cute than fierce than anything.) But it did reach a peak of annoyance since even now, to the latest chapter, he still doesn't like this 'male mistress who took his mom'. But he slowly grew more used to our ML, and wouldn't always growl at him to go away at this point.

Which might not be obvious for some readers, so I'll helpfully point out. His attitude to our ML is originally like this:

Sees male mistress --> instant upset --> will whine and complain to mom --> curses at our ML --> curses again --> male mistress backs away --> calms down and 'hmphs' arrogantly.

And now he's more likely this:

Sees step-dad --> annoyed --> will tolerate him --> you can be with mom, but don't take take over my territory! (mom's chest) --> tolerates some more --> gets upset and bites --> ML pets the cub and says 'im really not gonna compete with you for mom' --> whatever, this laozi will let you off

It's a rough graph, but that's basically it. And when I changed my wording from male mistress to step-dad... I have my reasons.

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My reasons being that our MC and ML got married. Albeit, done due to trying to trap MLs rotten peach blossom that escaped prison... which was easily done due to an unexpected surprise factor. Such as the meeting between the main MC and if MC.

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Aside from his softening attitude towards the ML, he's also more tolerant of his siblings. Especially towards his silly older brother. And a bit more tolerant to his 'stinky' younger brothers.

Often times, he would form a plastic alliance to his siblings to make his mom happy, even a plastic alliance to his third brother. Although initially he didn't like his younger brothers, especially when they steal mom's attention, that dislike won't extend to preventing his siblings birth. Which is why he only watched and didn't interfere when his third and fourth brother were born. (Mentioned in the novel.)

He even once formed a plastic alliance with our ML! It was briefly mentioned, but still funny nonetheless.

Now onwards to our third cub, Third Flora. Third Flora is a mass of beautiful phantom butterflies, which can only be seen in the shadows. The butterflies are a mix of male, female and even non-binary genders. However, the pie chart of the butterflies genders show that its three points male, four points female, and three points non-binary (if I remember correctly). Which is normal for eldritch monster cubs, not having a fixed gender. It's the same with Little Darling and Second Treasure.

For our MCs teammates, and the outside world, Third Flora is a sister, and they often use she/her to refer to our third cub due to her beautiful butterfly form. Which isn't wrong. But to our other cubs, Third Flora is their stinky little/older brother, who cries a lot (though later on, Third Flora doesn't cry as much, however she still does occasionally). Which isn't wrong either. She can be referred to as a girl, or he can be referred to as a guy. You can even do the same to Little Darling and the other cubs. But, ultimately, Little Darling, Second Treasure, and Fourth Joy are referred to as male, he/him. And Third Flora... well, depending on perspective, Third Flora is sometimes referred to as he/him or she/her. It interchanges.

(For now, I'll refer to Third Flora, as she/her)

Third Flora is one of the more considerate and sensible siblings, but not as much as Little Darling, she's a bit possesive and competitive like Second Treasure, but not as extreme as Second Treasure. She is basically a mix of them both, but slightly inclined more towards Second Treasure.

She also acts as a scout for her mom, always charging first and investigating their surrounding and reporting to mom about unusual changes. Because of her recklessness, she sometimes falls into danger, with most of her butterflies being exterminated. However, she is safely rescued back in her mom's arms, thankfully.

In this case, it shows a bit of her own personality. Though an emotional and cute little crybaby at first, seemingly weak and fragile, she charges into danger head-first and works hard for her mom. Reckless, competitive and overprotective, are the few words I can describe her in. A few more words would be, overly reckless, very competitive, and fairly overprotective.

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Which explains why she agreed to take down the sanatorium her mom is living in with Second Treasure. Though soon they are discovered and punished by mom accordingly.

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Moving on, let's talk about our youngest (currently) cub, Fourth Joy. He's a very hardworking cub, and very respectful of his mother. Youngest siblings are often the most spoiled ones, but he overthrew that stereotype and became one of the most career-oriented baby cubs, as stated by the author herself.

Due to being born late, he couldn't compare to the status of his older siblings and strives to work hard for his mom's affection. (Though Xu Yintang loves all his cubs equally, the cubs still can't help but want to compete. Well, the water bowl is slightly tilted to the side, Xu Yintang is a bit biased for Little Darling, his naturally born and first and eldest cub. Though he loves the other three equally.)

Just like his three older brothers, Fourth Joy isn't quite fond of our ML. However, he's a lot more tolerant and open-minded towards having a step-dad. He doesn't often express dislike towards ML, only occasionally when our ML steals our MCs attention, but he can easily be coaxed by our ML.

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One example is when our ML helped our Fourth Joy from being pushed under the bed by Second Treasure from cuddling with his mom in bed, by pulling him up and placing him close to mom. He even expressed thanks to the male mistress and snuggled close to mom afterwards.

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He is also the favourite cub of ML. Although many parents with multiple children claim to love all their children equally, how much of that is true? Our MC is more biased towards Little Darling, the oldest, and ironically, our ML is more biased towards Fourth Joy, the youngest.

Though, the reason for MLs liking towards Fourth Joy is not because Fourth Joy is more tolerant and nicer to the ML compared to his other siblings...

Rather its because...

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In the latest arc, the Xu Zhongping arc in the No. 3 middle school or something, when the whole family is forced to act as students, our MC and ML wore new skins, they became younger and also, their strength halved.

But getting to the point, they and the cubs as well as Casey Cat, were forced to wear uniforms. And those uniforms transformed the cubs and the cat into a human form. With Fourth Joy looking like a blend of our MC and ML, as if he were truly MC and MLs love child. Which is why our ML liked Fourth Joy much more from that point on.

Due to our MLs assistance in our MCs fourth pregnancy (or you could say parasitism since our MC didnt personally give birth), our Fourth Joy got a mix of MLs and MCs appearance.

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And that's about it about the four cubs. Now, I'd like to explain more about the other main characters and side characters but this entire review is getting so long, I'm a bit tired, haha.

So I'll shorten it to a dime.

Our MC is a very mysterious, complex character with a love for cola, fried chicken and small cakes. (As stated in the recent chapters)

He has a complex background that goes beyond just the sanatorium he is born in. And his birth involves a little time loop.

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In the current timeline when our ML already met the MC, kissed him and made love, while our MC is away, he went to his own instance, the witch hunt S-level instance and defeated the witch. But the world is destroyed along with it, however it is alright. There are two endings to this, salvation of the world or destruction. Both are good to reduce the corruption of the Void Sea, you'll understand better if you read this novel to the latest chapter.

And when the world was destroyed, collapsing into remnants into the Void Sea, our MC is born. Yes, its confusing, how is our MC born if hes already born? Its a complex time loop. If our ML did not do that, it would create a paradox, and potentially make the timeline collapse due to the loop not being perfectly completed, and our MC will disappear. But once he did that, the MC will continue living, and might create extra parallel universes as the IF plotline.

Its hard to explain, but if you read more and fill in the gap of the knowledge that I can't explain, you'll get what I mean. Unless you're some extremely smart person that got the gist of my rough explanation, and already understood what I mean... well, good for you and good for me for not having to write all of this in vain.

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I'd like to explain more but... his character is really too complex, I already wrote so much despite only writing the tip of the iceberg...

Okay, I'm just gonna write about ML next and no more other characters. It's already been an hour and a half since I'm writing this at the moment, this review is taking its time _ (´ཀ`」 ∠) _

Now our ML is a very cute, scheming little shou. He has a young little master background of a rich family, who accidentally stumbled upon our MC after being kidnapped by a crazy lady in a sanatorium. He's one of the many children that MC rescued from being the crazy lady's precious 'TangTang'.

And because of being rescued by the MC, he's always held him in his heart. And from the time they spent together in their brief childhood, our ML has fallen for the MC. And so, our MC became MLs white moonlight.

Thus began the childhood friends trope, which is really so sweet~ I love it. Spoiler

And when MC realised MLs feelings and even kissed him, oh man... (つω⊂*) it was so exciting, my heart skipped a beat when he asked the ML if he likes him, and without waiting for an answer, kissed the ML, then confirming with a smirk, 'You like me'. Our MC felt so A! So Bking! It was exhilarating (つ╥﹏╥) つ It was a simple brief moment but so exciting, personally.

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Going back to the topic... our ML grew up to an adult and became a very diligent player who doesn't wanna get dragged by pig teammates, so he led a revolutionary team to bring down the monopolising information AFA organisation in the Nightmare Time game and shared dozens of strategy and guide posts about various instances.

Although his purpose was to not have pig teammates dragging him down, a personal motive. It did save dozens of players lives and helped a lot of beginners deal with the instances efficiently.

Though they didn't put down the AFA organisation due to how large it was, they did change the leaders for the better, infiltrating internally with the help of the national father.

So when our ML met the MC, he didn't recognise him at first due to many years separating them, and our MC looks so much different as an adult than when he was a kid, so when he (ML) finally did recognise him (MC), he didn't hesitate to pursue our MC. And he did so successfully at the end. Though, it was a bit difficult for him at first, because our MC was a bit dense and emotionally unintelligent due to his upbringing in the sanatorium, he caught on and even managed to somehow disrupt the MLs seduction plan in a good way, like... well, I already described it in the spoiler above. But I'll put down one here too.

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He basically figured it out from the MLs actions and words. Then kissed a confession out of him. Well, not really. MC just stated that ML must like him. And ML didnt deny, but continued the kiss (as far as I remember).

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Anyways~ thats about it for my review... took me two hours to type all of this down. Whew. My hands are tired.

Basically, I highly recommend this novel, it has a well-written, in-depth plot. Good world building, character development, oh and one more important thing.

It doesn't have the misogynistic aspect common in BL novels. There are actually several female side characters that are relevant and likeable here.

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Let me think, Tiantian, Huahua, Zhou Qian, Silence... does Third Flora count?

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Not just that, there are hetero side couples. Like, actually. I literally rarely ever encounter side couples in BL novels that aren't a BL or GL pairing, or parents. I think there are, but they are rare. And there's even a potential love interest for Little Darling! It's just that... Little Darling is too young, a less than two months old cub. Not yet time. Not yet.

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Its Silence (a human turned demon statue from the livestream arc), she really likes Little Darling, this tentacle eldritch godling, too bad hes still a little cub, haha. She often sighs because of that. Its hilarious, I swear.

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Anyway, anyway, off-topic again. Just rest assured that this novel is really good, and, don't be scared away by its ongoing status, stash this treasure into your shelf and read it for the future, at least. Just like how Second Treasure hides inside his mom's chest, haha. Get it?... hopefully you did. Though, only readers who read enough chapters of this novel will probably get what I meant... and even if they did, they might not necessarily find my joke funny... QAQ

-rated this early because I believe this novel deserves more than just a 4.3/5 rating. I'm gonna boost up its rating with a 5 stars~