Sighhh this story has such potential and I want to stick through and see what the author will cook up but some of the plot is killing my spirit!
Like others have said in the comments: communication sucks, author isn’t properly using the ML to his fullest potential, sex scenes are lowk mid, has the same overdone historical plot (somebody gets saved, their in debt, has a terrible family life, they get cock blocked by crazy nobles, they suddenly fall in love) which I don’t rlly hate bc it’s so good when done well.
BUT. Josei needs to do better! I feel like a lot of people’s frustrations similar to my own is that the couple only has sex and that the ML is surface leveled and we only unlock him being compassionate after they did it. It would’ve been so much better for the story and rls buildup itself if the author waited for intimacy, they should’ve had a buildup of at least twenty chapters where the FL found out abt her position and felt insecure that the ML wouldn’t do anything with her yet him treated her with dignity and kindness and eventually to warm up to her more as a PERSON (I feel like he treats her a little to objectively sometimes), this would’ve helped so much with tension and a confession that would’ve solved him revealing himself also being a beastkin + his plans/feelings for her; plus that would’ve been an epic first sex scene bc both of them would’ve obviously wanted it.
(To me their first few sex scenes were so mid and lowk disgusting because the ML treated it like a “punishment” or a way to put her in her place and not in the good way. It also felt like the FL never wanted to have sex with him but did it at first because she didn’t want to be abandoned. The way the ML used her trauma against her in a way is so fucking twisted because her also has a similar experience!)
Sighhh this story has such potential and I want to stick through and see what the author will cook up but some of the plot is killing my spirit!
Like others have said in the comments: communication sucks, author isn’t properly using the ML to his fullest potential, sex scenes are lowk mid, has the same overdone historical plot (somebody gets saved, their in debt, has a terrible family life, they get cock blocked by crazy nobles, they suddenly fall in love) which I don’t rlly hate bc it’s so good when done well.
BUT. Josei needs to do better! I feel like a lot of people’s frustrations similar to my own is that the couple only has sex and that the ML is surface leveled and we only unlock him being compassionate after they did it. It would’ve been so much better for the story and rls buildup itself if the author waited for intimacy, they should’ve had a buildup of at least twenty chapters where the FL found out abt her position and felt insecure that the ML wouldn’t do anything with her yet him treated her with dignity and kindness and eventually to warm up to her more as a PERSON (I feel like he treats her a little to objectively sometimes), this would’ve helped so much with tension and a confession that would’ve solved him revealing himself also being a beastkin + his plans/feelings for her; plus that would’ve been an epic first sex scene bc both of them would’ve obviously wanted it.
(To me their first few sex scenes were so mid and lowk disgusting because the ML treated it like a “punishment” or a way to put her in her place and not in the good way. It also felt like the FL never wanted to have sex with him but did it at first because she didn’t want to be abandoned. The way the ML used her trauma against her in a way is so fucking twisted because her also has a similar experience!)