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oh goodie another plot requiring superhuman levels of suspension of disbelief
overwhelmingly mid
the spiral downward of the first 25~ chapters made sense bc ml is a self-centered arrogant prick. hell even the mc's extreme reaction to being holed up in that bedroom made total sense. it was fucking sad but it made sense. but ml did absolutely nothing to deserve the change. within 2 chapters mc went from ***literally*** "i'm going to become a doll with no emotions so this man can just rape my lifeless body over and over" to "oh teehee i'm falling in love"
the whiplash
and bruh him telling you he can only get hard for you is not fucking romantic?????? neither is taking care of you when you're sick??? author had two realistic options: have the story get a whole lot darker and keep the doll scene (which would have been fine but at that point you're at Even If You Don't Love Me territory which is clearly not the story the author wanted to tell) or cut it and lead the ml into a reasonable redemption arc. it suffered bc they tried to do both.
it definitely had too many ideas. the poor traumatized person indebted to a shitty prince ceo is one trope, the doll thing being out of place drama escalation which fell flat due to lack of follow-through, then them bonding over the bait missions which was legitimately cute but ruined because of *waves vaguely at everything that happened before.* the backstory with the mom and whole sacrifice business was actually interesting, but handled flippantly, esp towards the end. it seemed like rather than fully resolving any one thread they just kept tying new threads into it to overlap the old ones, which just ended up making everything feel muddy and unresolved. i won't even get into the ending, ugh.
the art was good (and got better, esp if you read their previous work), you can really tell the artist worked their ass off. and it's not a BAD story. just had some serious issues. take your brain out and enjoy the few sex scenes that weren't dubcon at best and the drama ig.