As I said Jihu only sent his emotions back, however as the novel goes on whenever Jihu gets in real danger future vision activates and he basically becomes his future self. At first it wasn't so bad as it seemed Jihu only partially became his future self however then his future self starts manifesting completely as if he fully went back. Now part of this call as Black Jihu is just badass, however it takes away from the story when it made it clear only his emotions would get sent back yet his future self comes and saves the day all the time becoming the ultimate plot armour. Like really it was interesting seeing a regression story that was different, but in the end it is basically the same with Jihu getting access to the skill his future self had.

What makes this worse is that it doesn't actually seem to be his complete future self as the Black Jihu we meet acts different then the one from the flashbacks till the point he seems to share different values then what he had during his timeline. For example Black Jihu seemed really smart compared to normal Jihu, but for some reason it fails him and as the story goes on it seems like current Jihu's values are influencing him. For example Black Jihu didn't care about Paradise in his timeline and only wanted to save the women he loved, yet for someone reason Black Jihu seems to care less about the women he loved and more about Paradise despite the fact it has only caused him to suffer.

The problem is Jihu clearly never got over Seonhwa during the story yet starts flirting with other girls and even ends up getting with a literal sheep in bit*h in sheeps clothing as the main girl cause she purposely sabotaged and kept Jihu and Seonhwa apart. Jihu ends up with a harem cause of some BS fate where no matter what he does he will end up sleeping with girls and get then pregnant who while he is close comrades with them clearly doesn't love yet is forced to be with them.

What makes it even worse is that in the previous timeline Black Jihu suffered greatly cause Seonhwa was also in Paradise under the alias of Baek Haeju. Now on an expedition Haeju gets captured by the Parasites and Black Jihu goes through hell his main goal in his timeline being to rescue the women he loves and also his greatest regret.

Now at the start Yuhui implied strongly to be Seonhwa, however in the end she turned out to be someone from the alternative timeline as well.

Now she is Seonhwa's friend and the only one who knows Haeju's true identity. When Haeju was captured in that timeline her last words to Jihu before she gets taken away is for him to protect Yuhui. Now at this point Yuhui and him are strangers however cause of Luxuria's feelings she takes an interest and starts travelling with Jihu while he tries to rescue Haeju after seeing him break down from losing her. Jihu spends his time putting himself through training hell to get stronger to save Haeju. Yuhui is fully aware of how much Jihu loves Seonhwa and is even supportive and encourages him.

Eventually they separate and a little while later Jihu dies after making a wish to send his emotions back, Yuhui makes the same wish, but unlike Jihu was able to send her memory back. Now this all good and all except instead of helping Jihu out she abuses her future vision in order to steal him away from Seonhwa.

Seonhwa due to having enemies can't make contact with Jihu without her identity getting revealed which would put Jihu as well as his family in danger. Now Seonhwa finds out Jihu entered Paradise calls Yuhui asking her to protect him cause she can't do it herself, in exchange Seonhwa will look for Sung a former ally of theirs who went missing on her own, in the previous timeline Seonhwa and Yuhui looked for him together. She also asks Yuhui to arrange a meeting between her and Jihu so she can speak to him without risk of being discovered.

However Yuhui doesn't do that she abuses future vision in order to steal him away-

• • Keeps information about a traitor to herself.

• • Hides future vision.

• • Yuhui purposely keep Seonhwa out the loop to keep her away from Jihu, even at Jihu expense.

• • Lets him become a Paradise addict and neglect his Earth life.

• • Does not inform Seonhwa when Jihu awoke from a three month coma.

• • Purposely goes on an important mission that would decide Paradise's fate injured when she can heal, putting Jihu and the whole team and the whole of Paradise at risk so Jihu will pity her.

• • Uses her knowledge of traitors to get Jihu to feel guilty then confess to him.

• • The same events in the previous timeline happen, but Yuhui says nothing cause the event that repeated is the one where Haeju got captured and she knows this yet purposely gives Haeju the very reason for what caused her bad ending in the previous timeline. Effectively letting a repeat of what happend in order to get Haeju out the way.

• • Sends her future self from 10 years in the future back to manipulate Jihu and events to come.

• • When Jihu gets drunk and accidentally does it with Phi and gets her pregnant Yuhui uses it as an opportunity to guilt trip him and even hints at killing Phi. Emotionally abuses him using her future knowledge, letting him get r*ped By Teresa despite clearly knowing it would happen and then guilt trips him again even punishing him by turning him into a girl.

Yuhui betrays her friend, harming Jihu and even risking the fate of the whole planet in the process to steal Jihu away going as far as to go back in time years later to better manipulate him. Yet she ends up becoming main girl getting away with everything she has done. Like really Yuhui was a bit*h that caused more harm to Jihu indirectly then even the Parasites have done directly. Yet she became main girl by doing so when she doesn't even deserve to be in the harem let alone his official wife.

Another big problem I have is that it feels like Jihu has been conspired against by the sins. You see Jihu met the goddess Luxuria when he still a child around six where she discovered his ability and complained if he was only a little older. Luxuria told the other sins and they all know Jihu is Paradise's only hope cause he is the brightest star and they saw a new possible future forming where Jihu saves them.

However when they finally open Paradise they don't summon Jihu despite him being their only hope, instead they purposely invite his girlfriend Seonhwa who due to that ends up studying aboard for a bit now during this time Jihu starts gambling in order to figure out more about his ability eventually becoming a gambling addict and ruining his life.

The problem is Jihu becoming a gambling addict wouldn't have happen if they brought him to Paradise when it first opened and second if his girlfriend was around she would have stopped him from getting addicted as well. The fact the sins knew about Jihu and are even able to see the future yet still let him end up how he does makes it seem as if they orchestrated his gambling addiction. It is so annoying cause Jihu had a happy life and it seems that the sins purposely ruined it and the only reason why is cause as I said Jihu had a happy life he would have most likely settled down and got married not investing much in Paradise even if they brought him there.

This isn't the only time the sins have done somthing behind the scenes. Originally Jihu was fated to become an Executor however in the previous timeline the sins don't make him one despite the fact it gives an ability he needs which is godslaying. Now Jihu in that timeline was a loose canon, but also a monster who even without the godslaying was able to force the Parasite Queen to use her trump card when she was at full power. If the sins simply gave Black Jihu godslaying he would have won and saved Paradise. Instead they let him fail and send his emotions back into the past, however they don't grant his wish properly. They purposely use part of the wish, which they shouldn't be able to, to give Jihu a gold mark when what was left for his wish could have either be used to send him back a little further or give him a memory from the previous timeline. However they didn't do that even though Jihu never asked for a gold mark and if he was sent back earlier or got a memory Jihu's life would have ended up better as he would make up with his girlfriend.

Despite how obvious it is it never directly points out or condemn the sins for what they done, but we do get confirmation from basically a supreme god that criticised the sins for a trick they played and purposely interfered with the direction of his growth.

The character that I mentioned before has groomed the MC to make sure he woulkd never be able to be with another woman, and even fueled his gambling addiction before dumping him, but when she saw that other people are interested in him, she came back acting like nothing happened. In the side stories, to force him back to her, she gets the MC drunk and [b]RAPES[/b] him. And everyone acts like it's okay. Then the Princess Hussey too decides to r*pe him because "He didn't respond fast enough to her feelings". And once again everyone is okay with it. And this happens with almost EVERY SINGLE FEMALE CHARACTER THAT IS INTERESTED IN HIM. The ending scene of the side stories series is his parents shaking hands as he stands with 8 pregnant women nearby. Wow. So r*pe is evil and bad when the other guys in Eva were doing it, because they were MEN, but once the female team members do it it's A-OKAY! And then I read back through the series and realized this; out of the entire series.... only 15-16 female characters get serious punishments for what crimes they have done. Let me list them out: the bit*h from the first selection area that kills the other girl for her coins, the red head archer that dies at the cart attack, the two women from Seol's first expendition, the as*hole archer woman in that bi-annual tournament that later joins his team, the woman in the finals of that tournament, the twin female bodyguards at the s*ave trader's store, the female lvl5 mercenary at the Valhalla manor raid, the female mob boss that fooled the queen of Eva, Sinyoung's eldest daughter, Vulgar Chastity, Twisted Kindness, Explosive Patience, and finally the Parasite Queen. EVERY SINGLE FEMALE LEAD IS "BLAMELESS" AND NEVER FACES REPERCUSSIONS FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. No matter what. This made me disgusted and ruined the novel for me. Like, read carefully and tell me how many times you will see an evil female character versus a male one. The author is clearly biased I favor of women in this novel, and it shows how they wrote the ending with the side stories. This personaly ruined the whole thing for me. Black Jihu was the most solid character in there, and the most logical.