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I really enjoyed this when I first started reading it. The story is told from the perspective of different characters, not limited to just the Male and Female main characters. When changing perspectives there are often jumps back in time to see what certain characters were thinking in previously described scenes and I felt like this enhanced the overall story. Both MCs come across as appropriately mature given their ages when they were reincarnated and both decide to try and change their fates. The problem I have is how the characters are treated in fundamentally different ways. I honestly felt like the female MC had the more compelling story. She tries to take control of her own narrative and it's fun to see her thought process as she lives through the novel's events with an outsiders perspective. The problem is that she loses a lot of her agency as the story progresses and she becomes a tool to tell us the story of the male MC. After the first 60 chapters it becomes pretty rare for her to even have a scene where the male MC isn't involved. Meanwhile the male MC is the driving force of the story. In the later half of the story, the male lead makes decisions and plans whole the female lead pretty much just decides to stick with him and that's the limit of her agency. Even stories from her perspective are just another vehicle to show how awesome the male MC is as she describes what he is doing rather than what she is doing. I think presenting this as a story about two reincarnated main characters finding romance and fighting fate is an honest description but it still left me feeling a little cheated by how he emphasis of the story shifted.