This even escalates to the point of ML drugging and basically raping MC (Arc 13 – Anyang Saga) where he ends up forcing MC into a relationship (well, MC isn't really being forced because he knows that guy is his husband, so he doesn't even bother to get angry with him afterwards. Instead he just ignores it, they get together and that's it.)

And that is the villainous protagonist shou! Yes. That opponent, MC has to defeat in each arc is the same person, just like ML. He doesn't actively remember his past lives at the beginning and later only does so after being overstimulated by MC.

Every villain who opposed MC is the same person, or I guess the same soul. I was literally feeling sorry for him when he was painting with his mouth. I'm pretty sure if he was the MC, we'd like him and despise the MC from this novel.

Second world – MC had a terrible father who cheated on his wife and after he passed away, MC’s mom kicked out the mistress and her 6yr old kid. The mistress abandoned the kid at a troupe and left him a letter explaining that he was the actual heir and his inheritance was stolen from him, and he grew up believing this. After gaining wealth and power through his own skills, MC destroyed him and he gets an absolutely tragic ending, due to a misunderstanding that should have been explained.

Third world – This one was a bit deserved but the way it was done was premeditated mu*der. I don’t understand why MC and ML stooped down to the villains level to do such a thing instead of getting actual justice. They should have gone to jail, MC and ML.

Fourth world – MC had a verbal agreement with his childhood friend to get married when they were older. The childhood friend fell in love with someone else, and got an orphaned lover. While the lover was two-faced, he never sabotaged MC and in the end, in order to get MC’s family property, the childhood friend who was slandering MC tried to backstep and marry MC, but the lover was the villain here? It was a verbal agreement! He got a worse ending than the childhood friend! In his perception, he was an orphan with talent in with the piano trying to marry up! Remember, the “marriage” was a verbal agreement between literal children! No one would take that seriously.

Fifth world – The story setting didn’t make any sense here and it was the weakest. SAO style, a bunch of people got trapped in a game and the hackers and technicians trying to rescue them reset everyone back to zero, said they could only rescue the top 100 players, and then set it up so people could transfer their IRL wealth into game money so it became P2W??? This doesn’t feel like a rescue! MC also whipped someone to death and took their time doing it.

Sixth world – This one was seriously messed up.

The villain is a fake saintess who made a deal with the demon king to destroy humanity, and MC set him up to get r*ped then watched the whole thing. He ended up tortured to death, but the victim that made me drop the book was the second prince, Louis. Louis fell in love with the villain, and while Louis wasn’t a good person, his only real sin was ignorance. In the end, he was crippled, and then arranged to be drugged and r*ped by a women by MC and ML, so that they could pretend the kid was their heir solely so the ministers would agree to let MC be the queen and having “legitimacy” to the throne. Louis had no idea he was r*ped, and had no idea he had a kid.

This is not ok.

There are only about 3 key character in each arc: MC, ML, the villain. The villain in each arc occupy MC's character's place, takes over his possessions and people, than MC transmigrates and with cheat system and ML takes it back. Sometimes ex of MC is vicious like the villain, sometimes there are some side character, who vicious in his stead, but their nature are still pretty much the same.

It's never ending circle: MC regresses, reads the heartbroken story of his character, improves himself with system, find man who can be the ML, confirms that he is ML, together with ML overturns tables against the villain and MC's ex-traitor, lives happy lives with ML, while his (ML) subordinates or side character / ex-traitor tortures the villain for his sins against humanity.

ML is highly into raping MC. It's his way of showing his possessiveness and regardless of MC's objection or not, ML would always fully commit the crime.
Can't say how often MC was fondled and kissed everywhere before they got into a relationship. Most of their moments together becomes eventually s*xual harassment or assault. There are way too many instances to count. He's completely unapologetic about it.

There's only one instance where it was an influenced r*pe. The remainder of the 98% times they have s*x, is of ML fully sober raping MC. MC doesn't consent to it, and gives in later, or, MC wants it, but rejects it after getting no breaks. ML would just r*pe him in his sleep if he faints from fatigue though.

ML and MC also had people r*ped. More detailed spoilers in arc spoilers and is highlighted.

Power boost in anything and everything MC wants to do. If he wants to cook, he'd be the master chef of master chefs. He doesn't have to personally execute these acts either, he can let the system take over and perform on autopilot. Identification. Locator. Extra sensitive senses. Visual enhancer.

Unrealistic reason to hold out for over 1.3k life cycles out of pure interest in someone he cannot remember and has no feelings toward to. Gets a shortcut out of the blue to do quick transmigration instead. Gets pointed out he cannot live as he wishes- ends up doing as he wishes anyway and then some. There are no rules he has to abide by (like no OOC) and the wishes from the people of the original bodies are also vague AF so why was Hades setting the story up as if the arcs would be challenging in any way or form?

Basic formula:

- system memory transfer=quick spoonfed plot exposition

-MC gets in motion to be a 100% face-slapping white lotus, doesn't have to bother most of the time because ML will step in, sometimes even as soon as he transmigrates. It usually goes like this, have s*x, talk about benefits, and keep having s*x. No romantic relationships. Everything will boil down to s*xual tension. No bonding or relationship forming. Doesn't help either when MC goes: "do this for me." And ML demands s*xual favors in return. (Cannon fodder and MC both sleep with men for favors, cannon fodder is the bad one because the men he sleeps with are of worse quality, that's the biggest hypocrisy, under the flag of true love, ML and MC get away with A LOT)

Even if cannon fodder was malicious and full of ill-intent, the methods on both sides are no different. MC and ML are both fully willing to stoop lower.

-MC, top in status, wealth, looks and power falls in love with MC at first glance, doesn't even go through the motions of a normal relationship, straight to bed and put a ring on him, and go straight back to f*cking

-with the exception of the first arc, MC is completely insecure about ML being his lover and stalls until ML sexually assaults him and his identity is confirmed through a kiss (MC ignoring other signs of attraction to the sole person he'd ever fall for until the kiss- is that to make ML frivolous for falling at a glance or is it to make MC's trust and bond to ML weak? Either way, it doesn't look good for either of them no matter how you spin it) he only got used to ML being ML after 8-9 arcs

-story that can be ended in 3 chapters is extended with boring one-sided complete overwhelming face slapping and no smut passive s*x scenes (though I'm glad it isn't smut because of arc 6, ML wants to test MC's lung capacity by kissing him and compliments his lung capacity after a long make-out session, like wdym? People breathe through their noses during kissing sessions. Either it's a cringe approach or the author's romantic experiences don't even reach to kissing) MC and ML don't even have to lift a finger anymore because the cannon fodders started self-destructing at some point. That's how weak they are. They cannot compete at all.

-MC and ML are too busy living that 0-100 romance life and arc ends either with villains completely unmentioned (what happened to MC's missions...?) or they're excessively punished (mostly the wrong people too, it's either the illegitimate child or half sibling that were also fooled by the circumstances, the typical ones that you'd read in a regression novel). The story tends to target the green tea bit*h and not the scum man (whether it be an awful lover or awful father that's root of all causes) for some reason.

A weird mix of either extremes or nonchalant clean-ups of the fodder squad.

MC and ML are absolutely scummy for having someone r*ped. Sleep drug-induced r*pe (s) on ML's gay half-brother for making a child of their bloodline

Just because they paid the woman to do it voluntarily, doesn't make it ok. I can't stand this type of double standard.

MC also had the cannon fodder r*ped when the cannon fodder failed to set him up. But the rapist was also again under heavy drug influence (violent) thanks to MC.

-passive dry narration with protagonists sitting on a conveyor belt moving along with the plot and living out a boring ass happily ever after

-sh*t starts again from the top...

So solely based on the story arc, Abby, a pirate's son, fell in love with prince Cory at first sight and became so obsessed with him to the point where he'd gladly kill Leann (Mc) to be Cory's fiancé. And it's not a bad introduction, sure the motivation of abby is kinda overused, however it's just bearable.

The only problem is that... he was a pirate's son, so how did abby even meet cory in the first place when it's said that pirates are illegal? And when they tried to ambush Leann (Mc) how did they know where he was gonna appear? No wait, how did they even know that the king made a deal with the mermaid king in the first place? Was it not a tightly kept secret? And when Abby's father and his father's comrades died, there was no lines of abby feeling guilt or remorse towards them or were there any mentions of them again only ever there to be a stepping stone for the plot to move forward.

Arc 1 is MC as legitimate son and Protagonist as illegitimate son

Arc 2 is also MC as legitimate son and Protagonist as illegitimate son

Arc 3 is MC as wealthy, loner streamer and Protagonist as popular streamer (not sure if he's poor)

Arc 4 is MC as wealthy orphan and Protagonist as adopted orphan

Arc 5 is MC as wealthy, handsome student and Protagonist as poor, ugly student

Arc 6 is MC as powerful person with heavy background and Protagonist as poor kid who was condemned