Responses
While I like the self awareness of the OGML on the last part of profitting of his crush's work, it still left a bad taste on my mouth and saying all IRL story of the OGFL. I don't think the true OGFL would be happy about the ending if you asked me.
Not the ending that I liked but the story itself is very unique and not the type of OI we usually read. It's very emotional from the way it tackle things. It has potential but could be improved.
For the FL:
The FL is not as proactive or as smart unlike other FLs from other stories I usually read since she's mostly reactive and on defense mode. The FL is not as scheming too or strategic for someone who loves and writes thrillers for a living and who manage to win best seller novel. She knew the story but didn't even make more plans about it esp given that the antagonist is a serial killer to prevent many deaths and only managed to save the ML which to me is kinda bias on her part.
For the OGML:
The OGML is also not the typical yandere since he had harems of dead body in his basement which is honestly not my type of stories and honestly gave a huge disgust factor which is why it justified to us readers why the FL chose our actual ML. Although at first I did root for the people OGML choses to kill because it makes sense given that those people were trash anyways. Him being suspicious of the FL at first was also great and how he changed his strategy from killing to negotiating is great which shows how smart and scheming was he. But what I don't like is in the ending he seems to lost some brain cells when the FL tried to manipulate/lie to him which felt like not as consistent on his part. Instead of a smart serial killer or a possessive yandere, in the end he just looked like a perverted killer to me who just chose some random pretty girl who gave him a bit of kindness. And how he did use metaphors of flowers it showed how he just objectifies women which is not something I liked and when the author made the readers sympathize with just because he's lonely. That's BS.
For the ML:
Also what is unique in the story here is that the real ML is not like other ML who were overpowered but did let the OGFL shine and was vulnerable. However, he might be a good gut but too passive for my taste and just lets things happen for the FL like he didn't even tried helping to clear the rumors about her too. The ML is not as strong to beat the serial killer which make sense in the story since he is just an ordinary guy who makes coffee and lattes vs serial killer who got more body counts. I don't like the ending that it is basically the self insert of ML IRL and profitting of her work when she was alive.
Overall, it's a unique OI and has potential and I kinda get why despite it's uniqueness it didn't get 9/10 stars here and just 8.4.