I Just Wanted to Live, but I Somehow Became Better Than the Main Character Chapter v31 Discussion

It's an okay read if you want to see a villain who isn't an as*hole to everyone just because he is a villain. There aren't too many conflicts going on here so it's more of a slice-of-life story than anything else. My main complaints about this work is the MC himself. He's so contradictory it's infuriating sometimes. One chapter he'll be saying how he isn't a good guy and won't try to save everyone in front of him but then the next time he'll say how if he does something he'll save the foxes and the city. If you want to be a good guy, go for it. No one is judging this idiot because he only ever thinks these things but doesn't state them out loud so he should quit trying to make black and white arguments about good and bad and just do thinks he can do without justifying it to the readers. If the MC has to do that, then it just lets us readers know he will do the opposite at some point in the story.

He also wants to interact with the heroines to the point that almost everything he does is the attract their attention. Like which part of the sect to join and what abilities to get. At first it was only to get villain points but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. His interactions with them are a bit cringe later on especially because the readers get to see his thoughts. Make no mistake, his goal is to make a harem that he can't f*ck until the end.

MC is also loved so much by the public that he feels like Jesus. Seriously, besides obvious haters like demons and monsters, everyone just loves him to death. It gets somewhat boring because he never has any conflicts since he's so loved. This is what makes him complacent and doesn't have a sense of danger. This idiot never realizes that the more attention you get the more someone is going to want to bring you down. Just because he's not the protagonist, he thinks nobody will really want to go against him. The only danger he thinks he can get is from the original protagonist so he disregards his fame attracting negative attention from others. I was pulling my hair out by the time I finished volume 2 so I'll take a break from this story and continue it later.

With all that said, why did I give it 4 stars? Simply for the fact that he doesn't use his identity as a villain to be an as*hole to people. I have read quite a few stories about the villain character being the MC and one thing that always infuriates me about these is that the MC uses his villain character as an excuse to just be killing or being an as*hole to people just because he is the "villain" or use some weak justification for all the s*upid things they do as a "villain". This MC realizes he can only save himself and his family if he isn't going out and causing people to hate him. Readers are also at fault with villain characters being as*holes to everyone because they always comment "he's the villain and should act as such" without realizing the villain is only a villain from the point of view of the protagonist but not necessarily from another point of view. I dislike this MC but I dislike the type of MC that goes out to face-slap people just to do it even more.

I'd say give this a shot, at least the first volume and if it's not really drawing you in, then stop because it won't be getting better any time soon.