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If you stick past the first plot event (s) it's pretty good, but the novel somewhat suffers from two dimensional antagonists. I also wish this wasn't a purely romance setting based story as it could've been expanded upon and been a better novel like "tr*sh Of The Counts Family". With its current pace, it seems it will fall off after the first arc is completed. As it seems most of the good points of the novel is just the starting premise, which I wouldn't be surprised if it was also copied and revamped from other novels the author liked, as the base setting and plot trend afterwards seems to suffer from the lack of creative flur.The character interactions so far have been great, other than the antagonist trio, who again, are 2d and only there to force the plot and fill up word count. My favorite character is by far the butler. I only wish his name was also the legendary Sebastián...I do wish to note, although it is a fun interesting read, you do have to give a white eye towards some premise plotholes.For one, why doesn't the MC simply leave after declaring the withdrawal? Another reviewie LoneDK argued that the MC being a lower position noble than the latter, doesn't wish to offend them. And stated that this is simply not how feudalism works. However... they misleading didn't mention how he is from a ruined nobles house, and the latter's rank is right under the king. His review was a 1 star... so unsurprising its filled with stubborn bias tbh. But nevertheless, it is still a plothole u need to side eye to enjoy the story.For my take, I'd argue the MC is simply being cautious, and freeloading as he gets a bit stronger. He just got transported to another world, why try to unnecessarily make more enemies? It's not like he has a safe place to get back to anyways, his house was ruined, which is why the original scoundrel signed up to be the duchess bride. Though we all know it's just meaningless plot armorYet as I state earlier, I sincerely hope this moves past the romance trope and enters into TCF grade story material after the first arc. But I doubt this happening more now, after a new FL romance character seems to be introduced... At least it's not self imploding harem, or not yet at least.There have yet to be any mentions of powerful characters / terrorist antagonist events to be wary of yet within the 17 chaps read, other than the main FL which I wouldn't really consider to be the main villain... and the MC's guard Rachel. So future ark potential looks bleak (I got here because of action/adventure/fantasy tags but the two former ones were removed... but I stuck cause it was interesting.)
