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I quit before I finished, but what I read is further than what is currently translated.It started out pulpy but fun, but as it went on things started to drag and there were more and more lengthy descriptions about every miniscule change of emotion that could barely be seen in the ML's "cold" eyes. Which is attractive for some reason? And somehow doesn't involve mindreading for other people to notice? I'm unusually tolerant of slower plots and long descriptions, but this one was just that over the top. I do not want to read a paragraph of bad poetry about the ml's actions every time he thinks or barely does something. It killed the pacing and I lost interest, especially since at that point the only real plot was an off screen investigation into the MC's past being done by side characters. There's also a long portion where the MC becomes anorexic to play a part in a film. This is considered tolerable or even admirable by everyone around her because it "proves" how she "works hard" for the sake of doing the part perfectly. I'm very much not okay with that, let's not glorify eating disorders please. It's bad enough in most entertainment stories, but this one took it to a new level. The characters are okay at first but flatten out pretty quickly. Everyone except the initial characters set up at the beginning have almost no character, and there's no time spent on actually building other relationships besides our main couple. And even that relationship has no heat, it's just them being perfectly in sync everywhere, him trying to slowly get people used to the idea that he likes her and her trying to avoid his efforts of showing any affection at all because someone else might object to it. They don't really interact much more in private, it's just buying gifts for each other, and those gifts don't even say anything about the characters or show any care for each other, it's just bags, clothes and jewelry. The relationship is not worth slogging through the poetic word padding. I'll be avoiding this author in the future.
