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This novel is pretty great. Obviously written for women but entertaining enough for guys to enjoy as well. The MC counterattacks for people who offer up parts of their soul for a better ending. The MC is rather pragmatic but generally refuses to use seduction to carry out her missions preferring martial arts and planning. I also like the way she often handles the FLs in that rather than directly targeting them she often just insulates herself from their actions before letting them self destruct. In the spirit of the novel I'll counter attack some of the complaints I've seen in other reviews. One, the MC being bullied. The MC can die. She's not going to go at it with someone who can kill her whenever they want. She's not trying to get smacked to death. Thus she's cautious in the beginning missions. This is not always how the MC acts and she's less likely to do so as the story progresses as she learns how to defend herself. Two, glossed over r*pe and dubcon? How much detail is actually needed? It's mentioned and the MC usually throws out her opinion of the relationship. The guy being good looking excusing it never really happens. It happening to the FL doesn't automatically means she deserves it. The story is referencing tropes in the genre not saying they deserved it. The FL might overlook it but they're usually considered off in the first place. The MC for example might comment that they're in some messed up S&M relationship like 50 shades of Grey. Often it's mentioned in this story how even the super handsome guys are depraved. Thus the story mentioning them being good looking means nothing and isn't the story giving their behavior a pass. Three, FL not deserving what happens to them. I for the most part actually agree with some of this. Sometimes I think the MC is doing too much. This is only really in two stories so far. The actress story mentioned, because while she has a bad personality, since the MC goes back in time, she hasn't actually done anything yet to deserve what happens to her. Even in the original timeline it's mostly the ML. Still the worst things that happen to her are by her own doing imo. The other is the blackmailed FL who falls for the rapist. It's actually pointed out by a character in the story he doubts she'd have agreed to the blackmail if he wasn't rich and handsome. Anyway I think the MC goes too far towards the end when she kicks the family while they're down. FL isn't really evil so much as dangerously s*upid and the kid didn't do anything. The ML is evil but at this point he's completely beaten and her having his pinky cut off for his debts is unnecessary and only fuels their poverty and his abusive behavior towards the FL. It's just depressing at that point. As for the country girl mentioned she'd be an example of the MC letting her self destruct. The MC only targets her when she harasses the MC by going to her house and spouting nonsense at her. The MC is a princess and needs to maintain her image. That being said the MC has a job and dies if she doesn't complete it. It doesn't really matter who is right or wrong at the end of the day as long as it doesn't cross her bottom line.
