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I read this about a year ago? So I might have trouble remembering some of the stuff. I read the Chinese version (not using mtl) so I can't provide a review of the translation.I liked this novel a lot before, but now that I think back on it, there are some rather weird parts. I'll go through the pro and cons so it might be a bit long.Pros:
- Its not your typical romance. The ML and MC are both very supportive and understanding of each other, they don't really argue much like in those drama ones. They have a many-sided relationship, unlike those boring ones, as student and mentor, subordinate and boss, friends to each other... You get the picture. A lot more nice things about their romance but it's too long so I'll cut it short.
- The action. It's not meant to be real or depicted correctly as military action should probably not be written like this, but the author's idea of how a "top-secret military group that protects the country" works is pretty good. Of course, there are loopholes, (it's not like only one person can create a working military system entirely by themselves.) but the action is overly good. Its realistic, people actually die since its a dangerous job, unlike some (Chinese) novels who try to make every character live even in a impossible situation.
- The characters. They are all very dynamic (besides her cousin+ her family. They are straight up idiots who don't have a personality besides mean) even side characters get romance, overall no entirely useless characters who serve as nothing in the plot, but of course there are characters don't appear after a while (it's how life works. At least they don't suddenly appear after 1000 chapters only to poison the MC). MC isn't entirely Mary Sue, makes mistakes, ML also thinks back on his past actions and feel bad about doing it.
- Its on hiatus, the last chapter ended quite abruptly. Even without the hiatus, it'll probably take a very long time to translate.
- The ML had his eyes on the MC when she was quite young, didn't like her, just had a interest in her, but there are some flirty parts. He's not a pe*o though.
- They depict foreigner soldiers quite badly. I'm Chinese myself, but I felt pretty bad for them. It's for the drama effect, but there is a lot of foreigners in the story is depicted as bad people and it does get on my nerves sometimes. There are of course, good ones, but a lot of them are "bad guys".
- Too much face slapping. They face slapped her cousin (?) and her family quite a lot of times. It's like they get defeated and revive again as zombies. She gets kicked out of school but joins the army to compete with MC. She gets kicked out of the army but she has a court session with the MC again (and quite a lot more of that which I don't remember clearly). At least the face slapping makes more sense than other drama novels?