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Hilarious that the ML fell for the FL when she retired her audacious baddie attire and started dawning on cute tiktok tradwife looks, and I happened to really like those baddie looks.

I like them as a couple they’re sweet I’m a bit disappointed on the direction of Lize, it feels stagnant that she’s always pretending to reject her inner misogyny and hatred for Edith when people like Cliff are willing to do anything for her.

I would’ve appreciated some more inner turmoil if it’s more like Lize is a good person but just hates Edith. Which doesn’t seem to be the case tbh.

This is also why her and Cliff doesn’t really do much for me, it feels like he’s proactive and she’s reactive. The fact the story doesn’t frame this as a toxic dynamic or anything tells me they’re supposed to be a duo yet it feels like Cliff does all the work while Lize just sits there pretty lol. Very boring duo. In that sense, I can agree with the comment that found Cliff and Edith’s relationship more interesting. There’s a lot of tension, distrust, and manipulation playing around them that would make for a good enemies to lovers pairing or a corruption couple. But alas!

Anyway I enjoyed my catch up

I read the comments and changed my mind abot this first paragraph lmao.

Anyway, I hope she doesn’t end up with any of them they are all genuinely awful and do not value your humanity outside of chattle or objectification. There’s also no real progression here, I get that this is Enemies to Lovers but you’re not allowing an avenue that allows each party to be viewed as an equal and that makes it harder for us readers to believe the progression of any relationship here.

It’s so frustrating how she is ultimately trapped in every angle here by people who proclaim they would rather have her dead but then keep her alive. Of course, I understand the politics here and how she can’t do much but narratively we are going in circles with this torture. It doesn’t have to be a revenge fantasy but we need things to pick up.

This can be a problem if the story has no narrative progression and she’s still in this loop of house-hopping while being whipped. At some point, it can become stagnant. Also, I feel like it flattens the characters— everyone here is awful and toxic but it’s not nuanced as one would like and you don’t get every’s pov so you ultimately have to chalk up a lot of their hatred for Just Because. Awful people don’t need a reason to be awful but Awful characters need the story to eventually justify their awfulness in any capacity.

Anyway, interesting story— I heard the father becomes the ML and honestly outside of the Sylvian he’s the best looking to me. I just can’t believe he’s that much of a hoe to sleep with his daughter. Men are so easy and disgusting lol.