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Especially when they added his maid to be part of this harem jengga. Mind you, this maid took care of him since birth. Literally since birth. She even assisted the mom in birth. Mom dies and she's basically his mom for the next decades? Even with 10y age gap, I found that disturbing. I've taken care of my brother since he was a baby around same age gap, so this. Is. Ugh!
And MC's mom (nonbio) logic is damn incomprehensible. She wants to be able to call the maid 'daughter', but the maid refused to be adopted when she's 10yo. So now she close to 30yo, let's get her engaged to the kid she took care of for almost 2 decades. WONDERFUL. It's so selfish, if I was that maid I'd be f*cking hurt.
If I'm MC I'd have like ???? And be disgusted. That's like marrying your elder sister. Unless he never saw her as an elder all those years? (Again, if I'm the maid, that would hurt) Plot chalks it up with MC transmigration, but he has memories? MC justify by thinking she's gonna devote her whole life to him anyway, might as well wife her up, make her happy! Along with with other women of course!
It reads so sleazy.
I can pride myself of selectively ignoring parts I don't like in a novel, but this part was too sleazy. This novels is supposed to be about military strategies, political schemes, and wars vying for domination. Not this sleazy d*ck head MC, that collects women with reasoning as good as third rate erotica. The expectation vs reality was jarring.
Every time the wars are over, I had to brace myself with cringe that comes from author's brave attempt to be a harem king.
This whole Schick just absolutely broke immersion for me. Even my MTL-fried brain cannot hang on anymore.
The other ladies of the harem isn't my cup of tea either, like Estelle who acts like MC is her property. I do like yanderes in my novels, but in the condition that they are not deadweights. Watching MC tiptoe around her was frustrating. So what does our supposed ever smart MC do? Ignore and just add another member of the harem, of course. He doesn't tell her to stop, or go on, or anything. He ignores her possessive streaks despite repeatedly saying he 'should' do something about it. Where'd his brain go?
The childish knight was okay, readable and cute sometimes but just that. Instead, I found myself liking the noble lady the most? Her plotline had probably been perfectly RRR (reduced, reused, recycled) many times. However, I found comfort in her cliché. Maybe because I had no expectations, I was not disappointed lol.
Rant over
[collapse]All in all, I'd leave a 3/5. I still did enjoy the story very much. Very, very much if I just skip filler chapters. It's really just such a shame. I belive this is one those novels that would shine bright without the gaudy accessories.