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(My varied reactions...) Read the synopsis, and... "Eh? What?"Looked carefully at the genre tags; then went to TL site, looked carefully at the genre tags there too. "Strange, it definitely says 'Comedy', and not 'Angst' - heck, not even 'Drama'! Well, translators do sometimes fail at tagging in a rush to post new works."Looked carefully at the novel's cover: "Oh ML, what a big waxy grey chest you have taking up nearly all the space above your manspreading!... Okay, don't mock him; at least he's ginger and not another black-hair-red-eyes DukeoftheNorth."Heck, there's only seven chapters so far, might as well just read the thing to find out what's going on!*seven chapters later*"One feeble distressed female MC, persecuted and ab*sed by utter garbage 'family', seeking 'refuge' in overbearing ML (AKA jumping from the frying pan into the fire)... If I'd just read this casually, I would absolutely think these tropes were being played straight, albeit written a bit weird. And yet...!"... Nope, dangit, still too s*upid to guess: is this for real? A well-written parody of overused drama tropes? Something else entirely? I give up!Only one thing left to do, add it to my reading list while growling "Novel, you have successfully captured my attention!"