I feel the same. When the cover is them as adults and the story is meant to be a a FL x villain ML I always feel a bit misled when soooo many of the chapters are them as children. Like, I feel like it’s just a huge amount of missed potential when they do that lol.
Instead of them meeting in adulthood and having the story be abt the interactions of a FL and a true villain becoming a ML it’s instead like… FL approaches an abused and lonely child with intense kindness who then obviously latches onto her and feels possessive over the only person who cared for him when he needed it, feelings which will obviously continue into adulthood, and then they make her purposefully ignorant like “oh my whys he still so attached to me and acting unfriendly to others! I thought I tamed him and he can be normal now!!!!”
Obviously they’re gonna do something with the goddess x demon shit in the future, but these plots where the ML is just kind to an unfortunate child who then latches onto (child) FL bc of her actions feels a bit boring to me these days. Cuz like, by the time they’re adults, the hard work is done. He’s already obsessed with her. She just has to realise and whatever temple-gods-demons etc plot has to occur and that’s it lol (not a spoiler I haven’t read ahead in the novel, just my interpretation)
Hmmmm idk but I'm getting kind of bored... nothing interesting is going on and the FMC is literally a child and I'm tired of these settings. It's ok if its for a brief bit they show their childhood but it's just ugh. Also I notice a lot of people don't like the MC but I think it's cuz she still has a childish mindset. Hopefully she becomes an adult soon or I'll drop this