The Marquis’ Eldest Son’s Lascivious Story Chapter 286 Discussion

As others have said, the second volume is a completely different novel. The *plot* is almost completely gone and it turns into a political and wartime story with long digressions into the history and religion of the world. For example, there are long rants about why sunflower oil is used in priest rituals, about the history of fallen houses that never come up again, etc. On the one hand, it helps to fill out the world--but on the other, almost all of these digressions are incredibly boring and add nothing to the overall progression of the story. You can safely skip almost all of them without missing anything.

Of more concern however, is that you can expect the majority of the heroines to be forgotten in this second arc.

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If I recall correctly, there aren't any more scenes with Odie, Anna, Tiko, etc. Likewise, even characters that are important for the plot, like Lupetta, are forgotten for fifty chapters at a time only to reappear in unsatisfying POV shifts without the main character. (Basically, the author remembered they exist and threw them back in for a chapter before going back to ignoring them again.)

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The last big con for me is the NTR vibes. To be clear, there hasn't been any *actual* NTR yet, BUT:

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Lupetta who features prominently for quite a few chapters and naturally is one of the main character's women, is proposed to in a way that implies that she agrees to the marriage and then isn't mentioned for dozens of chapters. You're left in limbo for a long time just assuming she's already married and sleeping with the other guy, until eventually there's another chapter where you find out that she's delayed the marriage until she gets approval from her village. Cue a lot more chapters where she doesn't come up, then you find out that the village agreed to the marriage... then nothing.

Likewise, the MC is promised that he can have his sister Fannie (yes, I know, the in*est is a completely different topic to go into). Shortly thereafter however, his father tentatively agrees to marry her off to the prince instead. There are some mitigating factors, but there's quite a few chapters spent on the MC trying to stop the marriage.

Anyway, that might not bother you, but I find it a little too NTR-adjacent for my tastes.

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TLDR: If you came for smut, the first volume is probably 4 stars. If you're not looking for a genre shift focused on wars in volume two, then it's a straight 2 stars.