I Became the Maid of the Lout Prince Chapter 166 Discussion

tl;dr

Dropped. Solid 4-5 for Gender Bender genre enjoyers for a good 100ch but slowly worsens later.

Dropped around ch165. Decent read for a good while and captivating premise, but falls flat on its face trying to establish the primary romance, somehow accomplishing to neglect the romance and the actual plot simultaneously.

Annoyingly, the further the romance 'progresses' the less influence the MC has on anything, switching narrative roles with the male lead as he becomes the de-facto protag.

Lastly, the "weak to strong" tag is misplaced. The protagonist remains the weakest named character and arguably gets weaker in comparison over time as all the other important characters vastly outscale her to the point you start questioning how she even was a named character in the first place, considering the character we see is supposed to be a powered-up version.

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This is partly because the protag is building a support character as a combat allrounder. The other part is the author being unable to stay consistent with previously established power levels.

For the record I would've liked a fully support build even less, instead if you're gonna make the ML OP as f*ck for no reason might just do the same for the protag. Or write from the ML's perspective if the protag's gonna end up a side character halfway through.

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Two stars because others may find it more enjoyable.