Those who like this story and gacha/adventure games might enjoy 'Choose Your Heroes Carefully,' it's a slow burn, but the game aspect, as well as the world and characters, are great
So when you thought your little brother was mentally ill in your first life you;
- locked him up
- isolated him
- didn't give him the time of day/didn't interact with him
- pretended he didn't exist
But now that he's an esper, he's worthy?
This guy is an ass in every category
agreed that it was an ass move in the first life and he personally admitted to the neglect himself, but tbf it's less "you're an esper so you're worthy now" but more "i understand your condition better now and sympathize that we both had the same struggles that came with zero guiding & you're not someone that needed to be quarantined"
he's still less than the ideal sibling, but the steps he's taking are in the right direction at least.
The problem lies in his persistent self-centeredness. While he does care for his brother, it's rooted in their shared struggles and identity, which largely echo his own. He then follows up by enlisting his brother in his scheme to stalk and harass his suspected ex, exploiting the brother's goodwill towards him for his gain. Only to then dedicate all of his time to harassing the female lead at her residence, overlooking his brother's presence entirely. Throughout this narrative so far, the ML's actions reveal a notable absence of genuine selflessness or empathy. Despite his sad backstory, he consistently places his own needs and well-being above others and exhibits little concern or effort regarding how his actions affect those around him. Simply citing personal reasons cannot erase the years of trauma and pain he inflicted on someone else (how he acted with the FL so far is a prime example of this).
Until he demonstrates authentic selflessness by making genuine efforts to prioritize others' comfort without any underlying motives, such as wanting to do things for the FL because he likes her vs just doing stuff to manipulate her back into the relationship, I will maintain a critical stance towards him.
As someone who has a hard time cutting off their narcissistic father, this chapter hurt. It's tough to give up on wanting a loving parent, especially when you witness others receiving warmth and support from their dads and you're left wondering, "Why not me?"
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I'm ngl I laughed at this chapter because what is this?
It may be just me, but it feels like any interesting or big problems or obstacles are resolved in two chapters, while the small, insignificant stuff lasts forever (most of the school issues seem irrelevant to the story).
For example, they constantly hint at the aunt and uncle being hostile but never directly address it and when an incident does occur it's solved almost instantaneously. (it feels dropped/forgotten and then picked up again at random times through the story)
In regards to the dad subplot, there hasn't been enough development up to this point, and then suddenly they have an argument and she blows up at him for one chapter. Only for them to not even follow up with anything other than him crying (like that was a huge emotional bomb dropped and we are just not going to acknowledge it??).
Going forward, my prediction is that they're going to gradually have him do things for her, to convince the audience that he's a 'good father', but it'll mostly be superficial stuff like helping her clean up (fix her hair, dab her mouth), or buying/winning her something. Additionally, the father will probably be hurt or nearly die, so the MC realizes that they really love and care about him (I call it forgiveness without the effort of redemption trope). There will be little to no communication until they are unable to avoid it (possibly when she cracks her mother's super-hard research and uses it publicly later).
I feel like a hater. However, there is just this feeling that the author keeps coming up with new ideas and subplots for the story, but forgets to include/maintain the existing subplots.
No, don’t feel like a hater. It’s honestly very valid criticism and I 100% agree with you. Because it does feel like the author constantly added new subplot meanwhile completely forgetting the actual story and the already on going conflicts and subplots— it’s honestly kind of getting tiring and annoying to keep up with it all.
FR. I feel like they do the same thing with characters as well because they keep adding random characters/friend storylines and then we don't see the character for 10-20 chapters and when we finally do it's all of the characters at once ╥﹏╥
They wrote 3 potential knights/bodyguards for the MC (yellow-haired guy, redhead guy, and black-haired girl), then completely scrapped them since her dad is acting as her bodyguard, and now they just randomly bring them all out at random points in the story, even when only one would suffice (which ngl it's funny that the yellow guy and redhead are ALWAYS a pair).
oh Maythan, forever being caught in the closet. (づ￣ ³￣)づ Also, Big shoutout to Jae for demonstrating that when it comes to annoying a sibling, younger siblings will stop at nothing!
Idk about y'all. But if someone invites me to dinner and then serves me ants on a log, we fighting.
This made me crack up all the comments here are literally OUT for Diana (she deserved it tho, nasty bitch
And after the long travel too I would've expected a hearty meal (︶︿︶)＝凸
Welp... I can tell this is going to drag out forever this was an opportunity to hint at the misunderstandings and make things less toxic, but I guess magical dick cures Anaphylaxis
YOU DIDN'T EVEN CLEAR HER NAME?!?!?!? These people are useless until the end ╥﹏╥ I hope a 10 yr drought hits that kingdom because wtf