• • A level of imbalance is fine and understandable (even encouraged), but there are too many imbalanced factors at play here for this to be really comfortable.

• • FL is: Very wealthy, extremely good looking, confident, capable, in a superior workplace position.

• • MC is: (Probably) above average looking, has modest income/lifestyle, inferiority complex, much lower in the workplace chain.

• • On top of this the FL coincidentally gets hold of plenty of information to start the relationship in an even more dominant fashion, and the MC is extremely submissive for most of the novel to the point of being unable to say no.

• • There are some cases where the MC gets angry with the FL but these typically barely last 1/2 chapters, and the MC forgives the FL while the FL proceeds to learn absolutely nothing (especially in relation to lying/deceptive behaviour).

• • I feel that if the FL had a slightly milder personality, or the MC had a stronger one then the social/economic/genetic disparities would be fine, but the level to which these stack on top of eachother make it seem like an ideal self-insert MC rather than one with a defined personality at times.

• • I already discussed MC/FL above, but this ship is pretty sickly sweet. Even situations that should be much worse in a relationship basically get glossed over to make this one fluffy.

• • AngeFan ship is pretty solid and surprisingly realistic (though built on a series of coincidences and a very, very uncomfortable first meeting for me at least). Unfortunately not enough time was given to this ship to do it anywhere near justice, though the parts it did have were incredibly well written.

• • SisterYan ship - to all of you on this ship, I am deeply, deeply sorry for your loss. I have no idea why the author alluded to this so long, then finally gave you hope and dismantled it in less than a chapter. One of the most baffling situations for me. You have my condolences.

• • First off, before I complain, I think most of the characters in this story are astoundingly well written. Pretty much the only complaints I'm going to have here are on the MC and the FL, I enjoyed the rest of the characters a lot. Though some of them were missing plot points, I can't attribute this to behavioural inconsistencies so I'll cover that elsewhere.

• • FL: The FL is incredibly devoted to the MC, and while this is fine and all, there are numerous situations where she engages in behaviour that she knows is uncomfortable or painful for the MC, and this continues right until the end of the novel with seemingly no learning curve (lying/deception). This despite everything else in her earnest/straightforward personality type not seeming to support that behaviour, especially after hurting the MC with it once. Considering her own insecurity with the MC staying with her, it makes no sense that she would willingly choose to engage in behaviour that could be obviously misread. FL is also supposed to be intelligent from what I understand, yet seems to be completely incapable of seeing obvious situations that can be misread (locked phone, cousin (but not told its cousin) right after rejection, etc.).

• • MC: The MC only really ever gets angry when she feels lied to/deceived by the FL. The issue is that as this happens a few times, she forgives this incredibly easily, and more unbelievably, almost seems to get less upset each time. I could understand if the first time was a harmless mistake, but the first deception is literally the basis of their meeting and the start of their relationship. After this things like keeping her phone locked should have effected her much, much more. Surprises like the one at the end should also have been discomforting given the MC's deep rooted insecurities and aversion to deception, even though they were pleasant surprises, they were built on lies. If the FL lied about that, what's to stop her lying about someone else? For an MC that often seems to overthink things she seems to be complete unconcerened with a track record of concerning behaviour from the FL.

• • This is basically the novel's bread & butter at this point. Almost everything is built on coincidence and timings for the most random things happen to be incredibly convenient. Foreshadowing except in a few cases basically happens in the same or prior chapter before you get something slapped on you. The amount of coincidences between the four characters in the two main ships is insane. You really do have to keep suspension of disbelief for this.

• • There are a number of these and most people who've read the novel will hopefully understand where I'm coming from with these so I'll try to keep them concise.

• • Murong Shi's father: ???. Actually what? Where did this guy go? The author built him up to be a fairly important developmental character to Murong Shi and a combative person but then resolved his entire being in basically two sentences near the end of the novel. I have no idea what went on here.

• • Little Yan: This cousin does find (though doesn't really get a huge amount of screen time) but again her entire character is wrapped up in like 4 sentences near the end of the novel.

• • Little Sister: I felt this was actually covered pretty flawlessly and was a relateable and well written character with just the right amount of screen time. Until in one single chapter alone she suddenly gets bent and has her heart broken in under a minute of reading. Why was this necessary??? If there's no sister/yan plotline, why even acknowledge it just to tear it down instantly? The relationship between the two was perfectly fine being cut off where it was (although unfortunate for sisteryan shippers).

• • The boyfriend: Like FL's father this is very much a ??? For me. The only power he/FL have over eachother is keeping their parents decieved. After this deception is uprooted, there seems to be some relatively mutual friendship (though not warm). But somehow he acts like a lapdog whenever the FL calls him? I could understand if threats or incentives were involved but he basically just does whatever the FL tells him to the rest of the novel. This deeply confused me. Novel plot seems to place these two as equals (I don't see anything about his family being worse than hers) so there's no real reason for this seeming subservience to exist.

• • MC's grandfather: Why isn't this guy included in the coming out? The father goes over there but somehow it seems later on that this is still being covered up? Why would a father who's against it not also tell a grandfather who would seemingly be against it? I'm not sure why they bothered to introduce the grandfather if he wasn't going to be plot relevant.

her little sister getting bent after reading MC's books, the villain got overly punished, and MC's menstrual issues not being explained or resolved

When the MC rejected the FL, the FL hired a new assistant. Every night, the MC would hear strange noises besides the room that the new assistant was occupying. The MC misunderstood that this new assistant and FL were doing lewd stuff during the night. Turns out, it was the FL's cousin.

Since the parents from the both side agreed with their relationship, I wonder how the people in the company reacted when they came out (if they did came out) since they're in a boss-subordonate relationship. But then, in the end, the MC became a full-time author, right?