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I'm not sure how I feel about this one...I'll not mark this as spoiler cuz is something any prospect reader needs to know:I like the way they built her character from an ancient prude woman into accepting her own sexuality and how she thirst for knowledge in modern worlds. She have a lot of room for growth, I'd love a strong FMC who feels good about her own sexuality and doesn't act like having s*x with someone means that either he owns her or her life is over. I'll keep reading wishing for at least part of that to happen because until this point (start of 3dr arc) it didn't. The only strength I feel from her is the mental strength to not break after being ab*sed. And I don't mean it in a good way.But more than that I can't force myself to like the male leads. At least most of them. They are awfully abusive and don't suffer near enough before deserving her.There's a big difference between a woman using her sexuality to empower herself and a woman having to use her body as the only mean to get a man and making him stay loyal. And the system's missions make her the second type. And that's not a view on women I like.Honestly some of those male leads should be left where they deserve to be. The tr*sh. Or better the jail. Nowhere in hell that seducing a man and being ab*sed and assaulted is the same thing. I know this is smut fiction but if you need to "pretend" to be forced to get a man's heart... you better take his heart... with a knife.I will certainly skip the tragedy arcs. The HE already look tragedy enough for me so I can't fathom how mad I'll be reading those. Same with the inc*st/fauxcest ones. No matter if blood related or not that's just a no for me. As someone with an adopted sibling that disgusts me to the end! Not only I find it offensive personally but I hate how it is usually romanticized when most of the cases in reality involve r@pe, ab*se and pedof. So, big no no.I'll keep reading it fow now in hopes she betters herself. I'm keeping in mind that the 3rd arc, is her first time in a modern setting so I do hope that she will learn that letting herself be used like that is not the only way to seduce a guy.Spoiler
In this arc specifically I wish she had convinced her mother to send her to an all girls boarding school so she could learn and mature a little before trying to "seduce" that tr*sh. That would also reduce the inc*st feel of it. And the mother being a successful career woman and understanding her discomfort with the situation and supporting her, independent of how good the new husband and son are, would be the cherry on top.
[collapse]And lastly... really, what the frick is wrong with that system??? Choosing such tr*shy mls, not giving an ounce of advice or help or even letting her change targets or skip a world when the ML is too far off the scum cliff to be saved!!! Frick, s*x is not the cure for mental problems nor sh!tty personalities!! Wtf is wrong with it? What kind of sicko would create a system that would force a woman to "seduce" aka get used like a fl*shlight/onah*le/s*xdoll like that?? Being s*xually ab*sed in a myriad of ways by many scum guys in n lives for centuries over a chance to redo her OG life? It looks more like she went to hell than getting an opportunity.The more I write the madder I get... so I'll stop here before I decide to drop this for good. I know it's smut, but sometimes I feel it was written by a delusional guy that doesn't understand women or how s*x actually works... I really really really hope it will get better but for now this novel is disappointing.