I know this is already really long but I just wanted to add a little more about the male lead. Just cause he has flaws doesn't mean he's poorly written in my personal opinion he's just very siff in writing if that make sense because the Mc doesn't have enough personality to really bounce of the male lead. They have chemistry (i don't mean romantically I just mean they have multiple settings of interactions) it's just that it seems the author can't do anything with it because they didn't put any type of thinking into the Mc. The Mc is basically just a strongb S rank guide that constantly is sex repulsed and has only don't his job a total of 3 times throughout the story. He doesn't so anything at all and it's sad that in the first few chapters it seemed like the MC was hiding a huge secret and maybe this dumb persona he had was just an act and idk he was gonna he revealed to be something cool. I'm sorry this is so long but I just hate when stories have such a good concept but it falls apart because of something so small.
I agree but I his dumbness is kinda justifiable due to his past. Idk if I can give spoilers but to keep it vague MC couldn't really develop much due to the previous bondage that was forced on him (as shown through the mark on his chest)
That explains his lack of sexual interest but not lack of personality and for me that's the issue.
Tbh at first I didn't think much of this story but as I read more and more I got really pissed off. Personally I didn't care if the Mc and the male lead had sex or not I just hated that half their relationship was a "will they fuck or won't they?" I also hate how stupid they make the Mc. Don't get me wrong they don't have to write the MC to be a know it all it's interesting to have the MC draw his own conclusions at the situations that are presented to him it's just that he tackles them in the WORST way ever. Not only that he seems to really have no personality besides the fact that he's an S rank guide and doesn't want to have sex. Going back to the male lead I genuinely have no problems with him I like his personality and carisma and how his attitude bounces off the other characters. It's genuinely just the male lead that I have a problem with, I don't like the fact that he's clueless all the time and does the same think for 45 chapters. And his relationship with the male lead also falls apart because let's be honest we both know the male lead doesn't really love the Mc per say but is just fascinated by then and honestly that would've been fine if they wrote the MC better. Idk for me it's just like everything is out in the open but the Mc will still looking inside if that makes sense. The story has interesting characters and world building but that doesn't matter if the character we have to see 90% of the time doesn't adjust and understand any of it.