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People talking about how this is a great enemies to lovers have some screws loose. Even if we ignore the enemy bit, this wasn’t even a good progression to lovers, she forgave him pretty much instantly and started caring about him. It happened so fast that I feel next to zero chemistry. Literally any other “my husband was an asshole and killed me/ made me kill myself” is better than this. Nothing is “peak” about it.
It’s not like he didn’t remember killing her each life, he was actively hunting her down. Insisted she would never get away, it ain’t even like those other stories where it just turns out he was going to scare her or something, dawg was slashing through her. Saw her actively getting abused in one life, felt 1% sorry for her and decided to hack into her anyways. Also she never fights back, not one of her lives is she ready waiting to hurt him, she tries to run away every single time and he still hates her. When he catches on to the rebirth thing (which is immediately) he lives his lives out waiting to kill her. People that defend him, saying he’s essentially not progressing mentally past that of a child, do children not have empathy??!! How does this excuse hunting people down and killing them? He actually lives longer than three seconds each time so he’s got some time to think about things. He’s just an A**hole. He sees her pathetic situation each time he kill her, and decides to do it again anyways.
Also, as I mentioned he remembers every single time, and realises when she’s working to gain his favour and avoid death and he actively works against that. Tells her essentially that no matter what she does it’s not going to change anything and he’s going to kill her anyways. How do you see someone fighting for their life and it mean nothing to you?? He understood how horrible it felt when his entire family had to die for absolutely no reason, because it meant nothing to her father, so how can he kill her and not see that he’s doing the exact same thing except worse?
Another thing that just doesn’t make sense, is she said she can’t remember exactly how it feels to die, but she remembers every moment leading up to it, the fear of being chased for like 10 years, living every moment in absolute terror, and being resigned to the fact that all her actions and efforts are futile. One of her lives she has a mental breakdown because of it. Then the very next one she’s feeding him medicine and tending to him. Like how are you not screaming at the sight of him and losing your marbles, even after doing that he still doesn’t care. Not even in the next life either I believe. She already thinks of him pretty favourably and then the major tipping point is him punching a wolf for her then she has next to no distrust or ill thoughts about him