Everyday, the Demon Lord is Escaping His Marriage Chapter 48 Discussion

My main feeling after getting to this point is - disappointment.

The beginning was hopeful, the premise is good, but the execution is just a let down. The MC is an interesting character, has an actual personality, tries things out (even if they don't succeed), so following along his journey should be wonderful but he is surrounded by flat and uninteresting figures. And that includes the ML.

I'll ignore the inconsistent timeline, it's common in these stories, I'm even used to the righteous side being different from the 'bad' cultivators only by what reasons they use to kill people. But the ML is just s*upid.

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Things started to go wrong with one misunderstanding after another, and the timberline is unclear but the MC spent between 100 to 300 years dead, and during all this time the ML could find absolutely nothing about the truth? He just for the sake of appearances tried to discover details but quickly gave up. How did the 100 years, at least, of thinking the MC is dead not made him cherish him when he appeared but now that there is a rebirth suddenly it's all different?? You can't open your mouth once to actually explain anything? And you're 300 ears old?

They are both supposedly the best of the best but they couldn't find a solution to any scheme. Be it the MC with the curse placed on him, or the ml, the great doctor, with what his mother did to him. If swinging a sword doesn't solve an issue then they are helpless to do anything.

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Having an ML who just goes with the flow of everything he's told or is done to him, and suddenly becoming helpless to fight against it all when it's convenient to the plot is annoying. It's said that he researched some things but it's all pointless because not a single thing is actually helpful, only exposition for the reader. I tried holding on until we get to the story of MC's mother because it didn't make any sense what happened to her, and I found further disappointment. In any case, this story treats women as many historical Chinese novel do, their only wotlrth is in their purity and any sons they give birth to. The ml's mother is the only female cultivator actually mentioned up to this point, otherwise they don't appear to exist. And she's not the most sympathetic character to say the least.

I feel bad for every single woman in this world. Even the mom of ML. And to add to the inconsistencies, it feels like a beginner cultivator is not much different from an expert considering the main characters don't bother hiding their expertise and no one notices anything.

But the most egregious fact is that in the novel your worth is in your ancesty, not your own actions. If your ancestry is questionable then no matter how great you are it will never erase that sin. In fact the child should pay for the sins of their parents.

2 quotes from the novel that pretty much illustrate my issues :' People of a different race could never be trusted' and 'A mosquito flew by your side, it didn't bite you, but you would still want to kill it'

The first is in reference to a child of a devil cultivator who tries to do good, and the second is a righteous cultivator referring to regular mortals.