- #1
This is not a single story but a series of shorter stories with different MC and ML and different setting and plotlines.It starts super strong, with a rebirth!MC overturning their dogblooded past and giving no grounds to those who harmed him in his last life. He is going to live a happy life with a ML that loves and respects him and none of them will stop him, dammit! It was very satisfying to read.The 2nd story is a bit more tropey, but the MC is fairly cute good person who just wants to avoid a dogblooded prophesied future told to him by a divine scroll. There's little to no drama because he avoids all the red flags and happily goes on his own way. Overall a sweet story with minimum drama.The 3rd story is when it went downhill. It derails from kicking away scum men to a rebirth!MC who is suddenly ok with accepting an overbearing, overjealous, extremely controlling ML. MC is portrayed as the one with the issues for trying (and failing) to physically fight off the ML when it comes to bedroom matters in his original youth. Consent is a joke because if you're regularly being r*ped and got used to it, it's just regular slightly kinky s*x, right? (Sarcasm) MC embraces and finds excuses for every red flag. MC blames himself for not caring enough about ML and "fixing" him in his last life. Anyways it's extremely annoying and toxic to read about.If it had been a dogblooded theme to start with, or even if it was just standalone story under its own title, then I wouldn't care too much because it's within the tropes of the genre. However, when this is supposed to be about a series of MCs who leave behind the potential hurt and ab*se to live a better life with better MLs, what the f*ck is this? MC didn't love ML enough to cure him in the original timeline so he just needs to love ML more this time around to cure him of all his abusive tendencies???Author completely lost the theme, and so they've lost me.