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I gave this series a second chance, part of me wanted to like it but I really can't bring myself to.As it's been pointed out by other reviews with similar ratings, this series isn't very good. Honestly speaking, it takes a person that actively seeks/enjoys physical and mental pleasure from masochistic play, verbal ab*se and possibly self-cucking themselves to actually find this piece of literature remotely interesting. Just because the initial premise in the first few chapters was relatively unique, doesn't automatically means the series or any other series good.The only noticeably good thing about this series is the surface level of political strife between the direct descendants of a kingdom's emperor, fighting for the throne, that you'd see in monarchic settings and that's pretty much the end of my positive comments.Story doesn't show any promise because it seems that the author is the type that repeats the same cliché situations and writes new scenarios in the spur of the moment without any prior planning or any planning at all. Personally, I'd usually test series like these to see if there are any progress that happens in the future so I can look forward to/keep reading by skipping a chunk of chapters without knowing the context and to my surprise, nothing.Our main character, Arnold, really takes the cake for being one of the mediocrally written MCs I've seen in a long while. Hiding under the facade of an incompetent prince just to boost his brother's reputation and his chances of being the next prime candidate of succeeding the throne.While in reality, he's actually overpowered, smart, brave, a people's person that's respected by those around him when they find out his true nature. I can understand his qualms about not wanting to become the next successor of the throne because it's simply troublesome but his reasonings behind it is the problem. "I don't want to do it so I'm gonna force my younger brother to do it for me because it's bothersome and attracts too much attention" is his attitude and mentality towards the situation. Why drag your so-called loved ones into the political fray like this when you can just deal with the situation yourself since you're the most suitable person for the job instead of acting like the puppet master in the shadows.Not only that, Arnold systematically drags and lowers himself down in the eyes of people just for the sake of bettering Leonard's image which is possibly one of the moronic ways of thinking I've seen. He doesn't even give a second-thought about those who cares about him and just does things as he wishes because he can.I could go on with review but this much will suffice.Subjectively and objectively speaking, I definitely will not recommend this series to anyone or to people that enjoy reading tr*sh like this because I do not want them to go through the same hell I did. 1/10