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A note on the TLer which won't affect my review but I think should be said for other people who want to read their provided chapters:Spoiler
The TLer's site is so full of ads that I ended up just MTLing it myself. Also, they seem to do that thing where TLers chop up chapters so c1~3 is actually just c1 in the raw, etc. I don't think chopping up chapters is bad, but I do think it's bad when TLers 1. Don't let the readers know, and 2. Profit off of it by having 5 or more ads in each chopped up chapter.
[collapse]My review is honestly just a checklist of bad things. The MTL is very difficult to get through, but I can get the gist of the story.- The FL is a mess as a character. She's a go getter and firm as a rock to others, and she's very proactive, but she acts like a scared innocent (squeaky) mouse towards the ML. The OMCs are pretty bland and cliche. It is a little interesting to see the FL and ML's relationship in the first few chapters, if only because their dynamic at the start is funny.
- All main characters (OMCs and MCs) have to have their attractiveness constantly pointed out in the narration. ML can't just be a cold but capable boss, he has to be a cold but capable boss that everyone has the hots for. It makes more sense for the FL since she did go from not good looking to suddenly pretty, but it's exagerrated way too much, especially when the author describes honestly bland outfits but then praises it as so beautiful because she's wearing it.
- As an extension of the previous issue, the dogblood/confrontation scenes are also very disappointing and frustrating because the FL usually gives honestly very bland or even bad responses that still gets praised to heaven by the author for being so smart and witty. At one point she gives a very childish response to an actually reasonable critic of her and the rest of the chapter goes on and on about how mature and intelligent her response was.
- There's a flamboyant male side character who gets chosen as FL's assistant because he's "interesting" and "probably gay so he's not a threat to ML".
- The midway point where ML cracks and FL runs away was resolved so poorly and unsatisfyingly. It's a showcase of everything I don't like about the FL.