
people are probably hating mc because she's exactly like the fiancee. Dense and unaware. She wanted to prevent the Mls from falling for ariel and facing the tragedy but isn't she just replacing Ariel's role? Like instead of ariel, Mls fall for her which still causes them heartbreaks later on. The only exception was, male leads won't face the same tragic fate unless the prince ended up falling for her too. Basically it's kinda hypocrite and the only thing that keeps the story is the art and reverse harem fan service. It wouldve been great if the male leads didn't fall for her and just retained their wholesome friendship relationship but yeah, opposite gender friends rarely exists in shoujo manga, authors really have to make everyone fall for the same gurl.
she's like Ariel 2.0, leading on the MLs because she's kind, cute and pitiful. I know it's not like she's oblivious on purpose but y"know, that's exactly why it's annoying. People should be aware of their boundaries and stop being touchy feely smiley sparkly if they have no intention of having interest with someone. and She isn't really doing anything significat imo and the affection she receives rooted on Mls pity for her which is kinda icky if you ask me. Cause they only feel bad for her. It's like pulling out pity card 24/7 haha.

besides I'm not really saying that prince will fall for her. It's just a what if on what would happen if he really did.
and that would make her a perfect Ariel 2.0- Because that would basically make her seem like she replaced ariel's role where everyone fell for her and prince becomes obsessive so he'd kill all the rivals haha.

I see. Then she's ariel 2.1 since prince's yeeted from her harem.
and i do know that it really won't end that way because lols common sense. I just wanna state what It'd be like in case prince did fell for her.
Doesn't really change the fact that she acts like Ariel with the exception of her not being a crybaby and a bit toned down of touchy feely-ness.

Also despite not being a crybaby does differ her from ariel, but the biggest difference is how FL actually care and empathize for all male leads' well being, while ariel practically doesn't care they died for her, FL might look stupid and naive, but compared to ariel, FL has common sense, ariel is basically brainless

While I do agree that unlike Ariel, she's genuine despite having similarities with her. She isn't doing things for the sake of collecting her harem so that makes her a lot better when compared to heroine . She doesn't take actions with motive in mind( assuming that Ariel might be someone who acts kind and cute because it feels good for her when attention is all over her) and does care despite being a sucker for good looks, but i don't agree that she have common sense.
Tbh I'm just not good with overly kind characters without boundaries.

Hrrrmm, I'm on the first chapter and Idk but everything's literally given to him and it kinda lowers the enthusiasm in his character growth? like, i felt like it'll be just all
about power flexing. Feels like this is going to be really boring and repetitive but I'm still at first chap so imma push it more

I love how well written and how realistic the characters here are. Each character have flaws, they're right and wrong in nature just how a human should be. They don't do everything right and their approach to problems is appropriate for their age- I'm not saying children can't be mature but there really are stuffs that kids their age arent accustomed to and they didn't know the right approach for that problem (this also applies to adults of course)
Example for Marie, She lived her life working like a slave and only realized her abuse after her aunt pointed it out. She believed that Minju might went through the same thing, she met the mother and knew that she is is genuinely kind so she was siding with her and helped- She sincerely thought that she's doing the right thing even though in reality what she did was entirely right. It's very realistic.
I love that the character's personality can't be categorized as good and bad.

I've read the prequel before this and honestly, this just feels bland and boring-
Also I immediately lost interest when uke got mad at seme, i just couldn't sympathize with his reason. I found his actions impulsive- that would've been fine for me since i like it when a character makes mistakes and repents but in the end he still thinks that his decision was right and he hadn't done anything irrational.
So my reason for calling him impulsive was because he immediately shut the seme down without letting him explain and well it's not like seme exposed their relationship on his own, neighbor completely guessed it on his own.
OKAY BUT HOW DID THIS GET PAST FROM CHINA'S CENSORSHIP!?!? HAHAHA