Counterattacking the Submissive Role! Chapter Completed Discussion

Edit: I forgot to add a note, I'd give this a 3.5-4/5 overall!

Heya! I'm the translator for this novel, and I wanted to finish it before giving my impression of it as I was discovering it as I was translating!

So, I'm gonna start of by saying that the first part of my review is going to be "general" without spoilers, while I put examples of what I mean in the spoiler tag below!

I was really looking forward to the story with it premise but I was worried about one thing that seems to be prevalent with novels that have a "misunderstanding"... you guessed it, it's non-con/r*pe. I HATE, HATE, HATE tropes like that, especially if it's later glossed over or if the victim just... accepts it with no repercussion. I'll take about this more in details in the spoilers. Overall I'd say it's not as bad as some other novels, but it did leave a sour taste in my mouth especially because it's also tied to another problem for me with this novel: THE LACK OF COMMUNICATION!!

I'm not going to lie, I do find SOME situations that arise because of a lack of communication funny, but I feel like there's a lot of scenes in this novel where both sides don't share their thoughts/feelings (especially Jun Ye since he's the silent, cool type of MC) and it's sometimes just sad because... just talk!!! I swear it's gonna be fine!! Both sides assume things when they should just communicate!! It's fine when it's s*upid things, but sometimes they're pretty major things imo but none of them seems to think about it too deeply so it just gets glossed over??

Overall the novel is nice, it's kinda a cute slice of life? In the three first arcs, the system doesn't even play any role at all so it's not like the MC has a specific mission to accomplish, but I liked it anyways! There's a lot of kinda "spicy" scenes that are not described EXPLICITLY but you don't have to be a genius to understand what's going on. Whether the MC or ML, they're very... active in the bedroom, to the point where they're embarrassing lol

I talked about MC being a kinda cold and silent type, he's def a bit sadistic and the ML usually is definitely silly in all arcs (sometimes bratty). He does keep some characteristic in the worlds and I think that's cute.

Okay so now I'm going to go deeper into spoilers!

Spoiler

The first arc was loooong! Jun Ye was a military female Zerg and our ML was a male zerg. Jun Ye saved him when he was young and he directly fell in love with him and wanted to marry him. So he kinda pursued him for years lol ML was definitely the brattiest in this arc!! But that's normal in my opinion since he was the youngest of a rich family and a male zerg which is like a precious thing in that world. Jun Ye also def spoiled him and indulged him so it contributed!

The ML was pretty hurt when he was made to bottom because he thought that Jun Ye saw him as less than worth it/doubted his abilities as a male Zerg/didn't love him, and that made me pretty bitter because he loved Jun Ye so much I think he would have never refused to try out bottoming if he knew from the start Jun Ye loved him back and just wasn't comfortable being a bottom despite being a "female zerg". But oh well, like I said, no communication at all!

I don't really understand the mechanics of this world because despite not bottoming, Jun Ye does end up pregnant with twins (and that caused yet another problem due to the lack of communication cuz ML thought Jun Ye was cheating... sigh, but like I said, ML had no more "distrust" or lack of confidence when Jun Ye FINALLY confessed and told him he loved him) and talking about the babies, they were born from an egg and I wish we got more scenes with them, they were cute brats lol!! this arc ends up with them growing old together!!

I was pretty happy with the second arc because it involved mermaids!! So Jun Ye was a mermaid and he got with a general that's deadly afraid of water lol that's later on going to become a reccuring trait in our MLs!! Another way Jun Ye recognized them... was from the feeling of their... butts which was definitely something lol So this arc was shorter but cute, like I said it was mainly slice of life moments of their married life basically!!

The third arc was MY FAVORITE mostly because the ML's setting in here was *chef kiss* Jun Ye is a deathly sickly guide and our ML in here is this big, buff, powerful gentle giant type of sentinel that is ready to do anything to make MC happy. It was once again a short arc but I really loved it. Once again I wished they could comminucate because while it didn't cause problems, our poor ML thought he had manipulated MC into topping because of his health.... but Jun Ye literally likes it that way?? And I was kinda sad it ended abruptly.

4th arc was an omegaverse one! And I think the author def had a thing for omegaverse/zergs because those were the longest ones and they're pretty similar lmao so this arc started up interesting because Jun Ye basically got so many "bad grades" on his previous worlds (you know... by being a top while he was supposed to be the ultimate bottom), he got assigned a "newbie tutorial". I thought it added a lot of funny things to this arc cuz you'd get the system deducting his points when he's "mean" to the ML lol also the ML was pretty funny because he first came to the blind date wanting to "sabotage it" but then he got so whipped/in love with Jun Ye that he ended up asking him in marriage... love fool!

And while we got a bit of a "hint" that ML starts remembering in the previous arc, in this one he literally gets "flashbacks" of different "selves" that are him and that are all being held by Jun Ye.

I also think that the system that starts playing a role in arc 4 and up is pretty funny. It aims to make Jun Ye the perfect bottom but... obviously he's not. He gets points missions deduced and it even goes to the negative, but for some reason the ML's love meter/affection points go off charts with how much he loves Jun Ye, so the system hides those from Jun Ye lol!

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Overall I'd say that it's definitely a fun read! I had my share of giggles and squeals while reading this and while I wish it did delve deeper into some plot points instead of just "mentionning" them and then glossing over them in some arcs, it's more geared towards our couple's love life since there isn't a "clear mission" from the start I guess!