Also, reviews should only be a basis to whether you want to read or not. The fact that there are reviews or spoilers at all should not dissuade you from reading the story, since reading said comments are optional.
There are some (me heh) who rely on comments to see if they would enjoy the story or not, because I wouldn't want to waste my time investing on something I wouldn't enjoy in the long run.
Thanks for this, I will not be wasting my time with this angsty story
this is actually a good review and it’s not dissuading at all! and why does spoon like fucked up royal families and a daughter with mommy issues
TAKE MY REVIEW WITH A GRAIN OF SALT. I did NOT read under the oak tree because I did not enjoy the plot. So, clearly I am someone with very different tastes like the most of you who are reading this because of that story.
I searched shortly after I read the previous post summarizing the available spoilers (read that first, as my review continues on from what they have already mentioned). Spoilers were available from Act 1 up to mid-Act 3.
ML DOES have feelings for FL from the very beginning. It's NOT out of obligation nor is it resignation. But he made a promise towards the first empress (Prince & Princess's mom) to protect her children; so he prioritizes them over his own feelings for FL (duty before others). The empress herself said that the promise he made to her would result in him losing something important to him (clearly, that's the FL).
On top of that, FL is just someone who doesn't know how to love and to receive love. While ML doesn't know how to reach out to FL and show his feelings towards her. They hurt each other multiple times (him, prioritizing duty over his feelings; and her, doing everything she could to hurt ML (first, she grapes him for an heir upon orders of her mother, then she blames him for the death of their child, and she tells him she doesn't want to see him so leaves for deployment or whatver idk... BRO IS SHE EVEN TRYING TO BE LIKEABLE???)). A very toxic relationship due to the lack of communication and misunderstandings!
Still, I didn't like the plot at all. But at least the Act 3 spoilers showed FL trying to reach out to ML, and ML being confused as to why FL had changed. I feel bad for both of them tbh; they would have been a happy couple had they not been born in the circumstances they were placed in.
And I think the best ending is they transmigrate to the modern world, get confined at an asylum and assigned a psychiatrist before they get signed off and continue a married life together.
Regardless, NOT MY KIND OF STORY LOL. Even the spoilers alone made me sick because I find no joy in reading stories where they just hurt and hurt and hurt (aka angst).