Status Updates From The Fallen Merman

Ngl I started skimming pages. Not a good sign.

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I want to read Error: Insignificant so badly but I GOTTA FINISH THIS FIRST! AaaaaAAAAAA!!! I hate myself for starting multiple books at once!!!

Is it the law that every danmei must have a younger (step/half/adopted) brother who is a little slow to understand things and a little naive? Lu Yan here (bless his soul for finally noticing he even HAS a brother), Xue Meng in Erha, Jiang Cheng in MDZS, Qi Rong in TGCF (cousins count too), whatever the hell He Yu’s brother’s name was… I’m noticing a pattern xD

Volume 7 finished! Wooohooo!🥳

I still don't get omegaverse, it feels like a fetish and a weird way to erase women - all the omegas in this book could be women and literally nothing in the story would change, there isn't even smut. And I don't like pregnancy talk in my BL books. If I wanted that, I would pick a het read. Idk man. This book would work perfectly fine without the alpha/omega thing, I don't feel like it adds anything.

You know what my main complaint about this is? There’s like five freaking couples and barely any romance. The main two have cute moments (and are LITERALLY MARRIED), but Error: Metamorphosis by the same author had so many kissing scenes, cuddles, declaration of feelings, characters thinking about their partner’s beauty… - all that while also being fully fade to black and non explicit. I miss that here :(

You know maybe I cause reading blocks because I switch between books, unable to really get invested in any of them because I keep forgetting shit. So rn I will stay committed to Fallen Merman, I’ll make it to at least 70% or eat my words

Made it back to where I stopped last time. And - shocker - a female character?! At last?! Lin Qian has AMAZING ladies in the Error series, so having no women in The Fallen Merman has been so jarring... anyone who could be a woman is just a male omega... weird... but finally, one of the bad guys is legit an aplha woman, I could cry. She has not been on screen yet, just talked about :D but yay women actually exist!

I actually had to reverse my progress because tons of important things happened in the last few chapters and I DONT REMEMBER SHIT. I gotta finish Fallen Merman in 2026 damnit

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MY POOR BABY OH MY GOD PEARL😭😭😭😭😭 whoever lied to me and said this was a light novel fuxk you oh my god😭

I love my stupid baby rabbit lu yan so freaking much, also go Xiao Xun!!🤍 finally getting to his arch has been freaking amazing

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I wanna hug Bai Chunian so bad oh my poor baby😭😭💔 him losing faith in humanity hit me hard my poor lion

I’d gladly give my life for Rimbaud

I love Rimbaud so much😭🩵

Ahhh I love how deep the characters are, how all the little details build up. Stuff like Bai Chunian bringing up his “mini honeymoon” to literally everyone and anyone without prompting, because he wants go show off since he is a romantic softie at heart… You don’t just get told character is shy or something, you see it happen without the author hitting you over the head with descriptions. I love her writing

Nearly two thousand pages, 144 chapters… and we get the first sex scene (a very vague one at that). Romance girlies could not imagine what we danmei girlies go through.

“You have to accept that I have flaws, even the king is not perfect.”
“No, you’re perfect. I like a wife who can bite my head off with one crunch.”

They are simply ✨perfect✨ together

Felt like coming back to this and omfg I hate myself for reading multiple things at once since I forgot what the current sub plot is and had to backtrack. Anyways I like how at this point Bai Chunian and Rimbaud are finally an official (married!) couple and how they no longer hide who they truly are (obviously Rimbaud could never pretend to be a human but Bai Chunian revealing he’s not human is a big step for him)

The translation is so fucking bad that it’s taking me out of this already extremely long story. Why the fuck have yall allowed Chrysanthemum Garden to essentially monopolize translating Chinese works?! They suck ASS. The whole fucking team!

How is this so good? It looks like a silly little funny fantasy but the world is unexpectedly complex and so is the story, anything even resembling a plot hole has just turned out to be some insane foreshadowing. Not to toot my own horn but I can really tell when a writer is skilled... and this one really is.