I like the idea of this story and it kept me on the edge of my seat, not knowing what would happen next. However, even after finishing it, I felt a sour taste in my mouth…
Romance was unsatisfying, because Edith didn’t have a backbone to stand on business. She had some of it in the beginning, but then it would immediately not matter because she couldn’t stay mad at ML and let him walk over her. Why even say something “I won’t forgive this” only to never bring it up again? He got forgiven very easily and romance itself felt shallow.
The way ML fell in love also felt shallow and purely sexual. MC definitely didn’t fall for his personality and fell for his looks. He was lusting over her and started showing romantic interest only after sleeping with her.
I would’ve loved to see more of his love towards her, hence why there should’ve been a chase arc for him to repent for his awful past actions, but it all got swept under the whole “he was under rules of the novel” thing. It’s not satisfying for me. I remember when I was reading I could only whisper things like “die die die die die” when he was on screen. So when he didn’t even get consequences for his actions towards MC, I was left empty and didn’t care about him that much.
It felt like author was writing MC perfect on purpose where everyone else had a fault about them and readers could get mad at, but never the MC. She is written too perfect and good. And maybe that’s why author didn’t write that she held a grudge against anyone, which was actually frustrating for me.
Other characters (not every side character) were also shallow af. No personality besides their roles. A villain is a villain just because. It’s not interesting. The characters that could be interesting have no ‘screen’ time in the manhwa.
I like the idea of this story and it kept me on the edge of my seat, not knowing what would happen next. However, even after finishing it, I felt a sour taste in my mouth…
Romance was unsatisfying, because Edith didn’t have a backbone to stand on business. She had some of it in the beginning, but then it would immediately not matter because she couldn’t stay mad at ML and let him walk over her. Why even say something “I won’t forgive this” only to never bring it up again? He got forgiven very easily and romance itself felt shallow.
The way ML fell in love also felt shallow and purely sexual. MC definitely didn’t fall for his personality and fell for his looks. He was lusting over her and started showing romantic interest only after sleeping with her.
I would’ve loved to see more of his love towards her, hence why there should’ve been a chase arc for him to repent for his awful past actions, but it all got swept under the whole “he was under rules of the novel” thing. It’s not satisfying for me. I remember when I was reading I could only whisper things like “die die die die die” when he was on screen. So when he didn’t even get consequences for his actions towards MC, I was left empty and didn’t care about him that much.
It felt like author was writing MC perfect on purpose where everyone else had a fault about them and readers could get mad at, but never the MC. She is written too perfect and good. And maybe that’s why author didn’t write that she held a grudge against anyone, which was actually frustrating for me.
Other characters (not every side character) were also shallow af. No personality besides their roles. A villain is a villain just because. It’s not interesting. The characters that could be interesting have no ‘screen’ time in the manhwa.