Transmigrated to Twenty Years Ago and Adopted Myself Chapter 16.2 Discussion

Utterly floored. I usually go out of my way to specifically search for #Semeprotagonist tag because I'm so tired of subpar characterization and inequal relationship dynamics, and I find the MCs are usually more understandable and the MLs not so annoying. I didn't touch this story for a while because I really was not interested in going back in time and raising yourself, but reading it, I was so !!!!! The entire time.

There's a meaningfulness to the interactions between MC and his childhood self. It's good stuff--younger MC has a developed enough personality he's both endearing and straightforward and funny, so all their interactions really shine especially because the story also deals with how it allows us to see the relationship the MC has with his parents as both a child and as a current adult. Also the parental figure he is to younger him--being the person he needed.

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Despite all their history, he cannot just walk away from alcoholic abusive drunkard father when he was tossed drunk into garbage. The father--who is given a breadth of depth just by the fact we Know he's been trying and seeing him from an adult's perspective, he's really just an unfortunate, cowardly, weak-willed man who even though he ab*sed his son-- he does love his son and want the best future for him, and his son loves him. It's lovely to see this complexity not only here but also with his remarried mother, who he recalls only distantly because she abandoned him. It's bittersweet and a little heartbreaking to contrast how younger self vs MC have different relationships with their parents, and I think really such a strong theme to this story is parenthood--and the different people who raise us and how we transform to become the people we are.

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Excellent by this alone, but the ML!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰Wow I couldn't help but falling in love with him lool mostly because he really felt like another person. I mean can I say WRITING IN DEPTH 😩🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️

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Because we learn bits about him at a time just like MC, but it's such an appealing (the knife playing, the subtle moment in the car that MC observes, etc) because there's so much SHOWING rather than just telling (thank u writer bless u longevity) that shows up in bits and pieces as the story progresses. Again this duality of experiencing the people you saw before as a child vs. Now as an adult--different faces depending on the situation or people (not hypocritically, but you know, just like a reg person where you can't hope to know everything). Story is so good about the jarring juxtaposition, and the appeal for me is just that ML deliberately chooses to be KIND and so good to his students and not even being married in his fifties :"0 I wonder why and I just rly want MC and ML to get together I ship them so bad sksksksk

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Anyway absolute gem 10/10/10 full five stars!!!