Take These Talents Elsewhere: A Delightful Demotion to the Countryside - I am currently reading “Take These Talents Elsewhere: A Delightful Demotion to the Countryside”. Sounds like a typical comfy slow-life LN, right? Maybe not:
Spoiler
Chapter 1: Middle-aged MC gets told that he gets demoted from his fantasy office job and is supposed to take over a job somewhere in the boonies. <-- all good so far. I like comfy, slow life novels.
Chapter 2: turns out he has to take the teenage princess with him in secret because she is in danger of being assassinated by political rivals. Cut to a flashback to MC’s school days, where he is secretly in love with a classmate, but she ultimately marries another classmate because he’s the crown prince. Back to the present, and the princess here is the child of his first love and the crown prince who died under suspicious circumstances. <-- here is where I start sweating. Please don’t tell me that this is going into the “if I can’t have my school crush, I’ll just get with her daughter instead” territory.
Chapter 3: They take a carriage, and she’s making constant suggestive comments, etc… Flashback to 8 years prior, when the princess was 6 years old, and she sees MC talking with her mother. She then develops a childhood crush on MC based on the stories she hears of MC from her parents. <-- My last hope that this would take the wholesome adoptive father route is shredded. Dropped
Take These Talents Elsewhere: A Delightful Demotion to the Countryside - I am currently reading “Take These Talents Elsewhere: A Delightful Demotion to the Countryside”. Sounds like a typical comfy slow-life LN, right? Maybe not:
Spoiler
Chapter 1: Middle-aged MC gets told that he gets demoted from his fantasy office job and is supposed to take over a job somewhere in the boonies. <-- all good so far. I like comfy, slow life novels.
Chapter 2: turns out he has to take the teenage princess with him in secret because she is in danger of being assassinated by political rivals. Cut to a flashback to MC’s school days, where he is secretly in love with a classmate, but she ultimately marries another classmate because he’s the crown prince. Back to the present, and the princess here is the child of his first love and the crown prince who died under suspicious circumstances. <-- here is where I start sweating. Please don’t tell me that this is going into the “if I can’t have my school crush, I’ll just get with her daughter instead” territory.
Chapter 3: They take a carriage, and she’s making constant suggestive comments, etc… Flashback to 8 years prior, when the princess was 6 years old, and she sees MC talking with her mother. She then develops a childhood crush on MC based on the stories she hears of MC from her parents. <-- My last hope that this would take the wholesome adoptive father route is shredded. Dropped