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I found it upsetting at the whole bit when they were dealing with the oldest aunt's husband. It was very homophobic, in my opinion, despite the author adding a blurb about how MC isn't against a person being gay but lets give him a terrible end anyway because he used this other character as a beard. Like, of course, he was going to marry a woman despite being homosexual. This era is supposedly based in Ancient China, when Confucianism was rampant. And I know it is because a big part of his philosophy was filial piety. Having children was considered being filial, since it meant the son was continuing the bloodline. Being homos*xual was frown upon because it meant you weren't doing your duty to your parents by having children. It was only the rich that had more leeway in this area since they could keep a male lover. Anywho, the author goes all out on this man, having the MC exposing him to everyone, making him supposedly go insane and then having his eyes gouged out and tongue cut because he thought the ML was hot. Like wow, tell me you really dislike gay people without telling me you dislike gay people.
[collapse]The other supposed bad people didn't get as much ab*se as this guy. The grandmother that supposedly sold her and tried to sell her twin sibling? Nope. She's fine. Her house is a mess, sure, but otherwise fine.Then the author starts adding mystery to the story and that is where I think the story started becoming something else. You have the ML looking for the MC's "master, " who happens to know something about MC someone else. And this looming threat that she is going to be exiled that she keeps thinking about but it has yet to happen. She says she wants to make money to have ready, but all she has done is going off on little mini adventures. She opened a shop that sells ready wear dresses and she custom makes a look based off the woman's desired look. However, she was only in the shop for a day, opening day to be exact, and has never gone back. Instead, the one managing the store in her family and the one that does the make up someone else. What? Then why go through all that trouble?Now, she's off doing some other random thing and looking but not looking for the ML who I still don't know what his purpose in this story is because he hasn't had much screen time. The writing is pretty good and the pacing is not bad either. It's just the content that made me drop this. I may come back to it at a later time.
