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This story is definitely satisfying if you're looking for one where yes, the canonical game good guys are revealed to be entitled, cruel or horrifically ignorant when things don't go as they expect, while the canonical game bad guys look like tragic, suffering unsung heroes. This story is pretty clear about what it is from page 1: a couple of schemers overturning the plot on protagonists too simple-minded to see through any of it. But If you're looking for a story with more nuance, shades of gray, and real challengers to the schemer's plots and goals, look elsewhere.
On a side note, the BL subplot feels kinda like the author just threw it in without much real buildup and had it go from "oh okay I can see this pairing developing eventually" to "wait they're boinking each other already??". The s*x scenes read like typical yaoi smut oneshot material too, and the dialogue in them were OOC enough to break my suspension of disbelief about the pairing's boink speed and chemistry.
Also.... gave me a bad taste in my mouth how this story treats its teenage female characters? They're either petty b*tches who will do the worst thing possible in a situation the second they get the opportunity to, or gentle, delicate misunderstood angels who can do no wrong. And the middle aged male main character manipulates one impoverished teenage girl into a life of horrible chronic pain, drugs, s*xual ab*se and eventual soul-death-coma as part of his revenge... Even if you can argue that doing some underhanded stuff was necessary to protect himself and his daughter, going to that extent is super f*cked up, and it's even more f*cked up that the author does everything in their power to justify it and make it seem like this kid deserved every second of it.
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