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I think this is one of the funniest and most frustrating novels I have ever read. Never in my life had I wanted to strangle a main character as much as I wanted to strangle the Male Lead Yuan.

He is an arrogant, brash, self-centered black bellied, green tea BITCH and I love him. He makes me want to throw my phone into the sun and learn the art of becoming one with nature at times, but his character development gives me the hope that maybe anyone can change into a better person.

Before I get into the plot, general warnings: THIS IS YAOI! IT HAS EXPLICIT GROWN ASS MANXGROWN ASS MAN ACTION!!! THEY FUCK!!! FOR PAGES!!! This is also, technically omegaverse, but considering this is AlphaXAlpha there's no MPreg.

Other general warnings are:  non explicit allusions to past non consensual acts against children, threats of rape (not between any of our leads), torture, confinement, and unflattering depictions of the church (which is where these tags stem from)

The plot of this wonderful novel follows our Main character Gillen, a man who has transmigrated into a stereotypical fantasy web novel simply known as "Adorable Young Lady" as the stereotypical Dad who neglects his daughter after his wife dies in childbirth. In the novel, his daughter, Cecilia, is a regressor who decides to change her life for the better, but now that Gillen is here he decides to say fuck all that and be the Dad *who stepped the* ***fuck up.***

Rather than let Cecilia do all the heavy lifting to change the plot, he goes out of his way to make her life the happiest it can be.

Actual excerpt from the novel:

# "No matter what she thought, Gillen braided her hair, dressed her, fed her, read her bedtime stories every night, travelled with her, and told her he loved her. When she went away to the academy, he fretted constantly and exchanged hundreds of letters with her until her graduation... His only wish was for his precious Cecilia to suffer as little as possible."

Well, it's 20 years later and the plot has finally finished it's course, Cecilia is set to marry the Crown Prince and they're are happily in love.

Originally, Cecilia as an omega would have to deal with other absolutely insane alpha romantic rivals, but slowly through events in the background, he has gotten rid of every single roadblock to Cecilia's happy marriage.

Enter, the second male lead, Yuan, the stereotypical most powerful sorcerer in the kingdom (world, really) shows up, wanting to marry his daughter.

Obviously, they tell him she's already about to get married, but Yuan is probably the most arrogant and annoying man I have ever had the pleasure to read about. So he's like, if I hang out around your daughter, she will want to dump that trash to get with a REAL man like me.

(If you have ever read the novel "Roxana" and the gratuitous imagery of how beautiful the titular character is, then you will have the slightest idea about how Yuan sees himself. He will go on and on about how much of a rich, magically powerful and gorgeous man he is, and it will be extra awful because his ego is the size of a galaxy and it is ***perfectly warranted. He is so OP that it genuinely makes you angry.*** )

Now, Gillen has read the novel, and Yuan is also a bit of a yandere (he literally kidnaps and imprisons Cecilia in the original novel) along with thinking he's God's gift to mankind, and he doesn't want ANY of that near his kid, so he devised a plan where he's going to third wheel the SHIT out of this dude in the most annoying ways possible.

Basically it's just weeks of everytime Yuan shows up in their territory, Gillen suddenly NEEDS to show him this thing 5 miles away. "Oh, you want to see my daughter Cecilia? She can't right now, she's busy in another territory, but have I told you all about our municipal water supply?" Cue 3 hours of that.

Actual excerpt from the novel:

# “My word… just look at these pebbles!”

# And that was how Gillen ended up spending a dreadful, entire month alone with Yuan.

# “The colour, the shape, the hardness—so full of the late duke’s love! Isn’t it moving?”

# “…Yes, I suppose so. But, excuse me, could I use the restroom—”

# “Restroom? How convenient—I was just thinking of going myself. Let’s go together.”

# “Sigh, never mind. I don’t really feel like it now. Please, go ahead.”

# “Actually, I don’t feel like it either. I lied because I didn’t want to be apart from you.”

# Gillen smiled and picked up another pebble.

#  Fortunately, this garden was full of unusually shaped stones, making it easy to invent conversation topics.

# Yuan's expression visibly soured. He was probably thinking something like "How do I shake off this leech of a man?"—but there was no chance."

Finally, because Yuan is a self centered piece of trash at this point in the story, he DOES NOT GET the hint and actually starts to believe that Gillen is in love with HIM.

That's where the title comes in, and Yuan rejects Gillens non existent advances and decides he can't marry a woman when her Dad is in love with him.

Gillen is just like... Mission accomplished... I guess??? and goes about his life working on Cecilia's wedding preparations.

Meanwhile, Yuan has come to the devastating realization that his type is actually nice older men having their complete attention on him at all times and he JUST REJECTED THE HOTTEST DILF IN THE KINGDOM?!?  HE'S GOT TO FIX THIS ***IMMEDIATELY!!!***

So the rest of the plot is Yuan slowly learning how to become a better person and trying to win back Gillen, because he must be so devastated about how Yuan cruelly rejected him.

Gillen on the otherhand is actually getting seduced by this prick 20 years younger than him and has a crisis about it, because not only is he BISEXUAL, BUT HIS TASTE IN MEN IS ACTUALLY THE **WORST???** WHY, GOD? WHY??

(Also, Gillen's a natural bottom and has a crisis about that too, because what kind of self-respecting Alpha is a BOTTOM!!!)

**FINAL WARNING!! I'M TELLING YOU** ***RIGHT HERE*** **AND** ***RIGHT NO******W*** **THAT YUAN WILL SPEND A LARGE PORTION OF THIS STORY BEING A BEAUTIFUL** ***DELUSIONAL KING!!*** **YOU WILL HAVE MOMENTS WHERE YOU THINK HE CANNOT DIG HIMSELF INTO A DEEPER HOLE, BUT HE WILL AND GLEEFULLY MISUNDERSTAND THE ENTIRE WAY BECAUSE GILLEN IS A HOT DILF! OF SUCH EPIC PROPORTIONS THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN BLAME THIS POOR BASTARD HALF OF THE TIME!**

Welp, people asked for it, Everyone should read "I got Dumped by my Daughter's Second Male Lead"