Ariest's manga / #Josei(11)

The plot is quite interesting and refreshing. It's another isekai story, but instead of turning the FL into the female villain, they turn the male villain of the story into the ML, by having the FL fall in love with him and try to save him from himself. Overall it's a good story, but the FL is unfortunately pretty weak and doesn't have much of a personality. The execution of the story also gets pretty frustrating at times. There are some really illogical plot points and character decisions here and there. And I wish the ML would have had a bigger character development and become nicer to everyone a little earlier. Especially towards that poor butler of his. But at least we got to see his improved personality in the final chapter.

The plot is cute and all, but the way the author sets up practically every situation is so unbelievable and convenient. Like ofc her dad suddenly has an emergency where she needs money, and ofc she can't find her wallet all of a sudden, and ofc he forgot his wallet at the apartment even though he never took it out, and ofc his phone is off when she tries calling him, and ofc her note blows away so he misunderstands, and so on and on...

Had so much potential. The story is really well written imo. It has a good pace, an interesting plot and the MC has character development, but my god did the author miss the mark with the male lead. He is no better than the aristocracy that he generalizes and resents, in fact he might be worse. He's conceited, manipulative, hypocritical, mean, greedy, unsympathetic and dishonest, even towards the main character after she's been left traumatized and on the street. And the author never quite manages to convince me he's changed or atone him for this behavior in my eyes. He never has a moment where he admits he regrets behaving the way he did to people, on the contrary, the author actually has him justify some of the terrible sht he did to the MC and her family at the end of the story. And it just casts a permanent shadow over their relationship for me. So yeah, the story is well written. Could have been a 5 star from me, if only the ML wasn't so unlikeable and actually faced his hypocritical douchebag ways.