For a moment there, I thought it was the green haired teacher.

This is the closest we'll get to a smug troll face on Jeffrey.
https://i.postimg.cc/VN8X6WqF/i.png

https://i.postimg.cc/hvgvB2Tk/i.png
Moment of realization where someone places value in your actions... actions that you yourself disregard.

I have this problem too. I'm like "I don't see what the big deal is" about something I had done - and the other person is like "DUDE! No one else would've even thought to do that!" or some something. Self-reflecting is tough when you don't know how to value your own actions.

But... this is what she wants. Her whimsy has gone in this direction... imagine if it went in another direction. Imagine if she was a vain jerk who looked down on human life. She'd slaughter innocents in the name of "getting rid of the traces and followers of the calamity."
It gets worse the more you consider how far "extremes" are... For example: She concluded that in this academy you're attending, there is a traitor who wants to bring back the calamity -> so she killed every student and destroyed the entire academy too.
And worst of all, Jeffrey would have to side with her as she can probably kill him - or at the very least, destroy the entire kingdom.

Overall, between these two extremes, thank goodness she is the way she is. I love how goofy and humble she is.

How old is she here? He's 28, as told in the past few chapters...
https://i.postimg.cc/rF93hDKQ/i.png
I know she doesn't show her age properly whatsoever, as she looked 40 when she was over 120, so I'm just wondering...

Is this why she thinks she can't be with him? Because she trolled him so much?

She has Red Mist levels of humility, I swear.
https://i.postimg.cc/tT4xLwgf/i.png

No... I'm not trying to enforce the brainrot or whatever. She's just amazing.

Dude, take a chill pill. If a casual critic of your actions sets you this far off, then you got problems that I'm underqualified to address.

If anyone is wondering, as of around half a year ago, this manhua had officially caught up to the novel. The novel stopped updating at chapter 496 in January of 2021; in the manhua, we caught up around chapter 460ish.
As stated, the author is legally, contractually required to continue updating this. This is literally where we are right now. As in... scroll up and read something that isn't in the novel because the novel has been dropped.
To clarify again: He dropped the novel, no doubt, but can't drop the manhua. He tried to drop the manhua too, but he can't.

Thing is, this whole argument has fallen into bad faith due to the insults flying around, so... /shrug
And dude... I downvoted you for toxicity. Would you perhaps prefer if I report you instead?

I dunno what these two goofballs are talking about around a year or so ago. This is a lot of fun. These characters are exceptional and impressive in several ways. I want more backstory... like how did Jeffrey get this strong? Was he just casually born like this? Is it training? Blessings? What? I WANT MORE!

WHY is she trolling him? She has no one but herself to blame for just how fascinated he is with her. A push and pull like this will squarely land onto the extremes. In this case, he extremely loves her.

There is always that one person, huh? lol
https://i.postimg.cc/h45LCsK2/i.png

Jeffrey with his memories walked the fine line between:
loyal friend with unrequited love
vs
yandere with unrequited love

without his memories, he's tripping over himself and it's SCARY

"I'll support you"
*kicks him down*

I didn't really intend to start political discourse. I just hate cigarettes because I have family members - close and distant - who smoked and smoked and smoked until... things happened... and some family members continue to smoke anyway. It is a miserable addiction... so I have incredible hatred to smoking and tobacco.

But on the subject of slavery, the 13th amendment literally has an exception built into it: "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." This is something that really shouldn't have ever had an exception... yet here we are.

We back?
WE ARE SO BACK!
https://i.postimg.cc/yxmmW3G2/i.png

Well, weed was illegalized in the Nixon era as a way to take racism-fueled anger against minorities -> and put them to action. "The war on drugs" as they called it... It is more accurate to call it "the war on minorities."
Also see "mandatory minimums" for more details on how they made absolutely sure they were ruining people's lives.

EXPLOSIONS! Not exactly good synergy with Mr. Main Character and his darkness + ice powers... but explosions are explosions.

I felt that this chapter is shorter than usual.
Guo suffering is kinda good. I'm not particularly happy that his kid died though. Maybe he can be saved? Who knows.

I think it's safe to say, as long as this fake Morro is alive, Mr. Main Character does have a thorn in his side, but he can still go around and cause trouble in his name, to an extent -> and get away with it.

Zhou Fan vs Deception Checks
https://i.postimg.cc/XJncgP4X/i.gif

2/2
Thing is about these court cases is that there were multiple judges presiding over the case. Specifically, in the first court case mentioned here in Australia's highest court, all but one judge were like "tobacco, you're being stupid. Cease and desist." There were 7 judges in this particular case.
So, one judge was corrupt enough to side with Big Tobacco. These companies quoted him -> and attacked small countries, like Uruguay. Uruguay also did public health measures against the literal toxicity of tobacco.

Oh it keeps going because in 2013, Togo got sued by PMI. Togo is an even tinier country than Uruguay and they were trying some public health measures against smoking. Fun facts about Togo: it is one of the top 10 poorest countries on Earth; also, 40% of Togo's adult population is illiterate. PMI has a net revenue of 80 billion -> and PMI sued Togo which has a GDP of 4.3 billion (2013 numbers).
Remember that corrupt judge? They cited his corrupt lines to scare Togo into obedience. Togo can't afford to fight this stupid legal battle. It's a risk they literally can't afford and they stopped the public health measure. 60% of smokers in Togo wanted this, btw.

Two more, because I'm tired, BAT sent similar threats to Namibia, the Solomon Islands (which has a population of like 600,000).

In short: big tobacco are monsters.