u/UpInYourSheet

This is a ridiculous theory but what if Mei was tasked not only to help Gero gather all the best potential wives, but also the best specialists and the doll user plan to get them all under his hypnotism and use them all to make new generations of controlled specialists? So if plan a doesn't work (Gero siring the girls' children), then proceed to plan b (use the other specialists instead) with plan c involving Mei himself getting used against Gero.

That might be too much but that would make Nasu more despicable, and Mei's betrayal would be much much much heavier.

When I say a character of his own, he has his own goals and aspirations. He has his own thing going own and his world doesn't revolve around MC. More importantly, it is IMPERATIVE that he's not a total dog or submissive to the bottom MC's whims, but NOT possessive or obsessed either. I want an ML to call out the MC if the MC is out of line, whether to ML or to other people.

You know, an ML is who is actually a healthy partner, not an overbearing one nor a doormat puppy. I remember reading a manga along time ago where the ML called out the MC because the MC doesn't like the ML being around his friends because he's paranoid (ML's friends are not toxic) and find it VERY refreshing and realistic.

Thanks!

I feel like she represents the people who were never meant to be a wife/parent, but were forced to.

She never took her husband's name (in a very patriarchal society at that!!!), that felt like a one last "fuck y'all" before she got married. She was abusive to her kids. She was not a good wife.

I have an impression that she just wanted to be a lone cultivator fighting evil beings. It is said that she spent more time night-hunting than being a stay at home wife (paraphrasing). She was one of the few capable female cultivators we were introduced to, and a very formidable one at that and I don't doubt it- the Jiang clan had no reason to REPEATEDLY pressure their heir to marry someone from the seemingly not-so outstanding Meisha Clan.

Now I wanted to read an AU Madam Yu Centric fic where she didn't marry Jiang Fengmian and became a legendary female cultivator!

Can I progress the chapter up until I activate the shrine just before The Bo Magus boss fight, go back to story teller, be able to refuse/accept his request and get the Bo Ending? I plan to manually save just before fighting Bo Magus to get the Bo Ending first then reload.