I kinda forgot I read this before but while reading I remembered that I liked it, but didn't know why it didn't make it into my fav list.
After re-reading I know
I liked this story particularly because we actually got a real reason why the seme treated MC badly in the past life, which tied right into a good lore of the huge differences between two species, which lead to the behavior in the past life that would be considered cruel by human standards, but normal by Jin standards (the race of seme).
The ML was still overly cruel despite this, because he was just arrogant and aggressive, but many things made sense once we learned more about the Jin.
The other particular thing I liked about this story: The reason for the seme being so vastly different in the present timeline. It makes sense because this time he actually spent much more time with MC early on and learned alot about humans he didn't know in his first life, which caused a huge change in his personality early on.
Usually when the seme suddenly acts so differently it's giving me whiplash, but here it felt more logical and natural.
Now the gripe I have with this story is:
1. While we get told what the differences are between humans and Jin, and how that might've lead to misunderstandings in the 1st timeline, it's inconsistent. We are told Jin don't understand the concept of monogamy, but seme hates just thinking about MC with someone else, which means he DOES understand it, but he didn't think MC would feel the same? That was so dumb and didn't make sense. I understand the author wanted to make the characters understand with an example but this caused an inconsistency that ruined the whole point
2. The moment seme got his memories back and found out how cruel he was to MC was very underwhelming. It felt like he didn't remember everything and barely reacted. Would've loved to see him regret more after that. Actually, I think this was the point the story picked up it's pace in general, so maybe this was the result of the creator being rushed.
3. The sidestories were just dumb and kinda boring
All in all I enjoyed the story a lot, and the seme didn't piss me off as much as usual, simply by being provided a decent, and dare i say it, logical reason for most of his behavior, instead of just making him your typical angy rapey seme for no reason
I kinda forgot I read this before but while reading I remembered that I liked it, but didn't know why it didn't make it into my fav list.
After re-reading I know
I liked this story particularly because we actually got a real reason why the seme treated MC badly in the past life, which tied right into a good lore of the huge differences between two species, which lead to the behavior in the past life that would be considered cruel by human standards, but normal by Jin standards (the race of seme).
The ML was still overly cruel despite this, because he was just arrogant and aggressive, but many things made sense once we learned more about the Jin.
The other particular thing I liked about this story: The reason for the seme being so vastly different in the present timeline. It makes sense because this time he actually spent much more time with MC early on and learned alot about humans he didn't know in his first life, which caused a huge change in his personality early on.
Usually when the seme suddenly acts so differently it's giving me whiplash, but here it felt more logical and natural.
Now the gripe I have with this story is:
1. While we get told what the differences are between humans and Jin, and how that might've lead to misunderstandings in the 1st timeline, it's inconsistent. We are told Jin don't understand the concept of monogamy, but seme hates just thinking about MC with someone else, which means he DOES understand it, but he didn't think MC would feel the same? That was so dumb and didn't make sense. I understand the author wanted to make the characters understand with an example but this caused an inconsistency that ruined the whole point
2. The moment seme got his memories back and found out how cruel he was to MC was very underwhelming. It felt like he didn't remember everything and barely reacted. Would've loved to see him regret more after that. Actually, I think this was the point the story picked up it's pace in general, so maybe this was the result of the creator being rushed.
3. The sidestories were just dumb and kinda boring
All in all I enjoyed the story a lot, and the seme didn't piss me off as much as usual, simply by being provided a decent, and dare i say it, logical reason for most of his behavior, instead of just making him your typical angy rapey seme for no reason