I went to look up the novel updates forum to see if there were any spoilers, and your comments seem so similar to one I saw there it makes me wonder if you're the same person lol.
I just enjoy consuming stories so I'm fine with some of the tropes, at the very least the CP is more interesting than some with how he feels about past MC and interacts with her current self (ie. he isn't all-powerful and she can, at the very least, outwit him - maybe in the future even outpower him in some way, when she gets stronger). I do wish we could've seen more with past Erne, or see the CP realise Erne's identity and have the two interacting similarly to how they did in the past.
Is considered the 4th ML Candidate?
The three chosen high-ranking elite capture targets are so conventional.
I've already seen these ML Types plenty of times before.
And I am so tired of seeing the disrespectful commoner maid with freckles who needs to know her place in the RoFan monarchy.