Reborn As The Villain President’s Lover Chapter 115 Discussion

Ok so this novel is a solid 3/5.

Not the best, but not the worst. Light read with minimal drama and suffering.

Not sure if I'll continue reading it till the end because at this point everything is more or less resolved in the story.

By chapter 115: Spoiler

• • Slag gong has been defeated and his family dragged him away from the acting scene. Forever.

• • The other antagonist isn't a threat. Honestly he never was.

• • MC and ML get together in an actual relationship and not in a prostitution (or sugar baby
    ?) contract.

• • MC achieved all that he wanted at this point. Fans, fame, money, friends, his lover, his mom not dying
    Everything's good.[collapse]

About the Main characters:

MC is just a normal guy. He has his funny moments and is rational. He's also very quick to move on from things, which helped him adapt to his new life.

ML is easygoing and level headed. He's also the reason why the novel has 'slow romance' tag lmfao. The man NEVER forces MC into doing anything he doesn't want, and has a good amount of respect for him.

If you couldn't tell already, they lack a lot of the usual stereotypical BL traits. (Which explains why the tags section is so empty lmfao)

Plot:

Entertaining but not interesting or exciting. It was only ever interesting when the characters interacted with each other.

The whole showbiz thing was boring and I skipped through most of it. It always has the same outcome of MC prevailing easily because of the ML's influence.

The author also mentioned not wanting to make them suffer too much. But I think it just made the story lackluster as hell.

Some other complaints I had with this story:

• • ML is too powerful in this book.Everyone (except for the antagonists) bends over to please him. So he makes all the MC's problems disappear with 0 trouble. Spoiler

    After MC stabs the slag gong in the stomach after he tried to r*pe him, the ML called the slag gongs dad and the problem was resolved within the day

    MC expected a hard won trial and I expected the trial or a tension filled arc where he's forced to take care of the slag gong, lest he ruin his reputation by announcing that he stabbed him unprovoked

    . Yeah. I was thoroughly disappointed.

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    Which makes the book boring as hell because there are 0 threats and 0 excitement. There is no sense of accomplishment because it's obvious that the ML will hand over the solution to the MC in a silver platter.

• • The ML's romantic dense arc went on for too long. Spoiler

    He wanted to be treated like a lover but didn't want to be his lover. It was really s*upid and irrational. It was borderline OOC with what was established in his personality. Where did his rational and logical thinking go????? What kind of idiot tells his sugar baby to stop being so loving and personal then complains about him not being loving and personal anymore????? 0 self awareness.

    [collapse] Thankfully his friends slapped some sense into him.

• • The antagonists were boring. The slag gong had some serious potential to be more than just a slag gong villain. Spoiler

    When he admitted that he had put some serious thought into what the MC said about the other antagonist (Slag gong being used and
    emotionally manipulated into giving the other antagonist resources, money, support etc) I had hopes that he'd redeem himself and have an epic scene where he accuses the other antagonist of treating him like a bank account and severing ties with him. In the end he did none of that and almost became a rapist. :/

    [collapse]The other antagonist was just there to give the reader a target to ridicule while praising the MC for not being like him.