If there's anything worth highlighting about such a plain and standard story is the MLs timing, they've all got screentime alone w the MC, they all have shown vital aspects of their character, such as kindness, devotion or love for her but they've all also have a critical distance to her that Ren keeps as his own highlight. The story points at him as the endgame ML but treats the other contestants with dignity.
The story is shallow, clumsy in it's hurriedness but it gets the point across and the humor isn't as clanky as other stories of the same degree but the highlight is it's fairness to the other love interests but idk if anyone else agrees, I also kept reading cuz I stuck long enough and it's a silly brainless read but yk it's nice to see
What I understand up until now w all the subtext and pointing I know a few things:
1. They weren't originally fated together
2. Consequently, there are certain repercussions that will affect them in the present
3. The black haired dude seems to be the one to have forced destiny and hyung is the one facing the consequences, for now tho
4. I assume the nice girl was originally black hair dude's destined one but it was forcibly changed by said dude
5. This will all go horribly bad or wholesomely good, maybe even more reincarnation but I doubt it since this seems silly enough
TLDR: there's a lot of potential for serious drama that will probably not be expanded on and I'm not angry about that lol my sillies
I know a similar story to theirs in terms of age gap
One of my dad's friends, a man in his late twenties, has been w the same woman since he was 16, she is 8 years older than him. She was just getting along w this random guy in a club unsuspecting but he willingly hid his age from her up until he brought her to meet his mother (a good while) and the mother was livid to find the "cougar preying her son" but she was caught so blindsided man. They now have a baby boy, she's a cop and he's a maintenance man of various odd jobs










I know the regas are supposed to pull at the heartstrings but it's so sad they were prostituted since who knows what age, as seen in others chapters what regas are made to do, for their pretty boyish looks and surely all of the regas life have always been at the deck and call of these impulsive men... And at the end, after living without any speck of freedom in oblivious ignorance, bc I doubt they were educated at all, like a pet in a breeders den, they died in their sleep. I just hope they didn't wake up in the middle and suffer(。ノn\。)
Yeah. Even tho they have no name or face or any significant appearances, thinking about how they were probably lured in with promises of better life, turned out to they were only deemed as unimportant lives :(((
It's one thing I don't like with this story. The author just insert a character only to be killed the next chapter. I mean, they don't even do anything :((
Right?
Although frustrating, I find this so organic like yeah the character had no actual effect whatsoever and their death completely avoidable but there's also: "this is war" and it helps feel the story as tragic, infuriating and painful as it should be, in war everyone is affected, even the innocent and it's amazing (obviously this aspect is oftentimes over-used). But tbh, seeing the og novel, this adaptation is MUCH much more tame so I'm honestly grateful for that but it takes from the brutality of these bleak topics, like the mansion where Abel tries what he can to save the baby, just how violent Kara's can be in the boat w the sporadic killing and the prostitution of the Regas to other nobels.
I haven't read the novel just a few bits and pieces so I might be wrong tho
That's is sadly true. I understand the author just trying to depict war and the lives it affects.
And how much more tragic the novel is, I also saw some comments saying the same, that it is more graphic. That is what prevent me to read the novel, and as even in this far tamer version of the story, I still find it difficult to like Karas and his brutality :(