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3 stars.I'm being generous with 3 stars because it's not bad. But I did drop it.Before I begin though, the biggest thing that bothered me almost immediately was the fact that it's obvious that either the author or translator doesn't know the difference between the titles of Count, Viscount, Marquis, or Duke. I feel like it's the author as over time the MC's title does stay consistent with 'young duke'. But that in itself shows that the author did not put much effort in European culture. Yes, it's their story. No it's not a pass for them to botch an existing nobility system that's still currently in use today especially if they're going to borrow it.I was able to power through the title switching but that in itself knocked a whole star off.Now for the reason I dropped this. It got boring. Plain and simple.Again, the plot isn't bad, but the author is focusing on the wrong reasons in this story. Especially with how the summary sets us up to think that the main stars is both the MC AND the ML. The ML feels like he's just there to remind the reader's that this is has romance in it.It starts off fine, MC wakes up back in time and starts trying to mend his mistakes. And of course, things start to get convoluted and their relationship will not be the same as before. And this story was good until they graduated the academy.I understand that the author wants to use the political drama as a plot driver but there's no consistency in that drama to keep me hooked. It's like scrolling through TikTok for hours only for this one short to make me gasp. And I don't have TikTok.That's 0.5 star knocked off.The other 0.5 star comes from the lack of interaction between MC and ML. The summary, especially that last sentence, put my expectations to see them interact more. Instead, MC slams his walls down hard, which honestly fair, and shuts down ML's attempts to want to get closer. All that understandable and par for the course since that was also to be expected from the summary description.I honestly don't care about the lack of romance. I just want to see them actually interact more. Give them more scenes especially since they're both deep into the political warfare that's going on and one the same side and mingle with the same people! I understand that the MC is MC for a reason but I don't need to know that 'the tea was to his taste' and have a scene that doesn't add to the plot.
