Tradegy.
In fact if I could I would add a tragedy genre and dead protagonist tag. As someone who avoids tragedies I wouldn't have read this if I had known and think the rating would be higher if people knew going in.
Let's be realistic the MC wakes up with a husband and is constantly reminded that she was sold as a wife for cheap with no support.
Cattle sold and a big family unit that's toxic great start. I like this genre its my favourite and I've seen MCs claw back from worse starts. This is the translators second work and she does a great job sometimes he/she are mixed up but otherwise I see no problems
Everyone is hating on MC for being biased but it's not fair on her who woke up with no choice who she got to spend the rest of her life with.
In fact at least it seems she was given a choice of which personality she gels with and finds attractive to then start her life with. This power gives her a choice which she uses, she fell in love with one wholeheartedly. This whole section which is roughly 75% of the story I really enjoyed 4.5 stars.
BAM.
Fates just joking there's only 1 main. She had no choice its all a cruel joke from the author playing with MCs head and they all will merge eventually.
Except they don't actually assimilate since the other personalities basically just die. The only change is the main personality becomes able to cope in situations he couldn't before due to trauma and is able to mimic the other personalities behaviour. The sadest part is the personality knows that he will die and struggles so hard to stay and fight for this love. The MC doesn't tell him that's she's the reason he is able to stay so long and this false hope gives the dying personality more hope to survive. This is looking more and more like a bittersweet tradgey by the bloody chapter. They realise the reason they assimilate is because of her love and trying to help them. Then not much later after she starts to get her life on track like 60/80 chapters he dies *cried inside* The ML for 60 chapters out of like 80 dies, 75% of the story roughly. It's a tragedy. That's when the book ended for me.
I tried to keep reading to see her reaction when she realised the main personality was trying to hide the fact it wasn't her true love, the one she kept saying she would pick out of the 3 survived. That didn't come in like 5 chapters so I skipped to the last 2 chapters. He told her on the last chapter, she said she already knew but loved him/ the merged him. Even he says which of the 3 does she love he knows deep down they didn't merge, they just disappeared after he got over his hurdles. He even knows deep down even on his wedding day he would still expect her to not pick him given a choice. The fact she just carries on with her life with no reaction after essentially her lover /husband/ ML dies is too much for me so like I said I skipped to the end for some sort of closure. But in her shoes it's tragic but understandable that she carried on. She realised after fighting all throughout for somesort of freedom to live how she wants she had basically no choice she just got to put her head down and get on with her life like a puppet on a string and make the best of it. If she mourns her loss that will just make things even harder with main personality who she needs to survive after all she has no way of income off the books outside of the family register without Spoiler
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I shipped MC and 3 so bad, they were so sweet. For all those saying she bias, hell yes she is and hell yes she deserves to be. A modern women who goes back in time wants to have some choice over her life partner I hardly find anything surprising or anything wrong with that. In fact the book seems to let her for 75% of the book so in my mind he's the true MC. I feel bad for 2nd but the heart wants what the heart wants. Plus 2nd is not acting that way because of merging he was already starting the mimicking earlier on like with the foot washing after field work just to be like 3 so to take MC for his own. Plus 2nd gets what he wants and basically uses all of 3s resources as a springboard for his happy ending with MC if that ain't a stab in heart I don't know what is. 1 is a child I feel bad since he died without a goodbye or any sort of wrap up with MC or family that he loves. While you all feel bad for 2 poor 1 is the worst off. The little ball of fluff was the first to hug her and express his happiness for her appearance in his life although I'm glad author kept it PC since he's a child in that form. But yeah 1 deserves more love from us but if 2 are going to die he was gonna end up cannon fodder
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It was an awful representation of the mental illness the translator even said the author at the beginning didn't do any research on MH. So basically they were 3 people/personalities in 1 body with DID slapped onto as a label to try justifying it as realistic. They aren't the same people they have different life views, goals and outlooks towards everything except they all love MC. That very same love ended up killing 2 of them. This ain't a love story is psychological tradgey.
