The protagonist, Luisen is pretty inconsistent. And to be fair to him? He tells us himself he's not smart, so I really can't pick on him that hard. But I feel as if this aspect may annoy some readers who feel similarly about consistency and such. Despite trying to keep the fact he time traveled from the future, he often slips up in ways often... a little unexplainable? Luckily, Carlton is a simp and is too busy pining to notice.

Additionally, I find some weird inconsistencies in who Luisen was SUPPOSED to have been in the past, and how he acted in the past...? Don't get me wrong in thinking 'oh a BL protaganist who has been with women in the past? That sounds fake' but... Everything I hear about his past personality feels like he simply would not have taken the initiative with women? And... lol... even his attendant didn't really seem like he would push that not going to lie. It feels like after the first handful of the chapters the author felt a bit awkward about Luisen being a "tr*shy" lord, and tried to backpedal. It's not the worst crime of this type of thing occurring and I feel like perhaps the author saw other novels/media with similar ideas... but it's someone transmigrating and not a time travel occurrence? That way it would naturally have that dissonance... Luisen does not have that luxury. I don't particularly mind that "oh he's so different now" because it does make sense, but the inconsistency comes from his past self with his past self?

I mean I would not be surprised if a couple chapters later Ruger goes like "Yeah Luisen wasn't the kind of guy who takes initiative so when women tried to flirt with him he'd just go along with the flow."

Overall: Not a huge deal. I'm assuming if you found this review you've probably have read other BL webnovels and probably should be generally used to this kind of thing. And again, not the worst example of this kind of thing occurring.

Though there could be irritations in the fact Luisen is kind of... oblivious even though he went through suffering, but I don't think it's that far of a stretch for him to be so unaware. He does not learn that well, as he said before, and he has shown times where even though he lived on the streets he did not quite have street smarts. Not only that, some of the obliviousness is through his over-reliance on the future's knowledge.

fanfic creator in a way

For example: the pilgrim's identity, seizing the castle, the confrontation with the Count, defining Carloton and the Duke's relationship. All the previous points were constantly postponed, even though there were many opportunities to address them,

Luised can be a bit too obtuse but Carlon's straightforwardness compensates for it, so there's no separation from the start of their journey to the end. Romance starts properly around ch 75

the overall novel keeps the same feeling and ambiance. Everything is very similar (at least with what has been released so far), I think it is a good adaptation, so if you liked the manhwa you most likely will enjoy this format too! The 1st season of the manhwa ended around ch 60-65 of the novel, but I recommend reading it all from the beginning to deepen some information.

Also Ruger, hah. Honestly I agree that death had to be his salvation so I also felt sorry for him. And all those moments when Luisen's childhood bits came up made me teary eyed because of how proud his retainers were of him. He was just an pampered orphan led astray.