- #1
Not too bad. The MC never considers getting involved with the scumbags again, so that makes it better than a lot of similar novels where the MCs are more wishy-washy or, worse, actually go back.That said, there is something about the premise of this novel that I find confusing, maybe because I read it via MTL:Spoiler
The MC was adopted by the evil!adoptive parents to act as a decoy/body double for their biological son. The MC ostensibly didn’t know he was adopted and outsiders were also supposed to think MC was the biological child. What’s weird is, as far as I can tell, the adoptive parents are both ethnically Chinese whereas the MC is visibly mixed race. The POVs for multiple characters note that MC looks mixed and this is later confirmed (his father is European). If the intent was always to pass an adoptive child off as their biological child, it doesn’t really make sense that the adoptive parents would choose MC in the first place, since he’s clearly (at least partially) a different race. If this was ever explained, I missed it.
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