I am only mention portions that stuck out to me & made me question MC's character and highlights that MC is more of an investor with cryptobro. Totally understand that it can be seen out of context in a way & honestly tried to gloss it over and detach myself from it because it's fiction & MC doesn't go investing into it; however it is difficult when MC talks about investing throughout the novel as his goal is to invest.

"'Even if you work hard to save money, one bitcoin and one stock are enough. At the very least, if you buy an apartment in Seoul, it goes up endlessly.'

In a way, money was infinitely important, but in another way, it was also an infinitely light thing.

In short, money didn't play a very important role to me in this life.

If there is, use it as an investment.

If it doesn't exist, use it as it is and put it in Bitcoin.

That was my basic motto."

I really wish this novel didn't mention Crypto as MC states if everything fails he'd invest in crypto/bitcoin (and when this was mentioned when he was already rich from his business & investing in a game company & getting shares from coffee company renovation franchise.

And he really didn't need to mention this as with these statements it just sounds like MC regrets in his past life/ 1st chance that he didn't invest in stock or bitcoin. So I feel the whole goal of being a designer just lessened and it more became him wanting to become an investor rather than a designer)

Originally I thought being open to the idea of partaking in stocks & crypto fit his greedy character (especially since he failed his first life so wanting money in this life made sense) and just relieved he didn't do crypto, but I then started to noticed how much more often it kept showing up and detracted a lot from what I looked forward to reading.

" Of course, it's not necessarily about money.

Money is what you should do to invest in Bitcoin."

But MC repeats throughout the novel on occasion that life his goal wasn't money.

Like MC admits he's greedy for opportunities but just latter half tries to make it sound like money is not his goal just a means to it... I don't know why he has to reason with the readers (or himself) that money isn't important to him.

Like I feel it is as he saves his family (specifically his grandma) with money & proudly admits it........ & he didn't need to invest in Coinsoft games & just do his own thing...

He is doing well because he has money & investing. If he didn't need money, you don't have to invest in all of this stuff to get more money just invest in yourself... He could've just invested into marketing and making himself more famous which I feel aligns with his goal but he doesn't even make a social media account.

" Money is something that exists, and something that doesn't exist.

In the beginning, I decided not to care about money in this life. "

But the hypocrite thing is he does care about money. And this line was pretty much the dealbreaker for me. These statements kind of echoed a lot cryptobro thinking where real money is sort of useless and you gotta invest in bitcoin idealogy. So I ended up dropping around this point because I was fed up over them just popping up again & again.

I felt a lot of things are too convenient for the MC & he got a lot of lucky opportunities from connections (like his professors) which was definitely very purposefully crafted by the author. Like it's great MC took advantage of it but the requirements and timing seem all too convenient.

1) Oddly specific 5 employee company requirement for a government project

• Like I don't quite understand why a government project would only only consider small companies with 5 employees to try to take part in their project. (and luckily MC starts off with a tiny JH designs company with his college friend.. which the company just felt shabby.. Like I understand if there was a govt program to help start-ups but MC's professor pointed out the 5 employee thing which was so oddly specific)

2) Extremely famous artist happens to want to collab with MC

• Another scenario I think author does quite a bit is to make MC famous, MC ends up collab with famous people, but the set up seems all too coincidental.
  For example (I will call this the Rivals Fight over Thomas Kinkad's Painting section since I refer below too)

  MC goes to Switzerland to sell his work, & coincidentally try to buy famous Thomas Kinkade painting (as investment) to only fight with this rival same-age artist Seo Ji-won who wants the same work. Thomas Kinkade decides well I will make u two compete and give my art to the one I like most. Only to go well I not give to MC though cuz he happens to like your work more cuz Seo Ji-won need the motivation... AND I really want to collab with you instead...

1) Stroke kdrama ends up about MC's life & MC is always confidentally sure he is so successful in everything.

• MC takes part in a kdrama production Stroke which he knows will do well as it does well in past despite him not partaking in it.
  I am puzzled why MC has to influence the writer to the point where the whole kdrama story ends up basically about him and his life? Like I kind of would think that MC's goal would not to change the kdrama storyline too much or else ruin the work's potential success, but he changed the story and basically used the kdrama to make more artwork for him to sell, as if he was sure any changes he did would make him more successful.

2) Eventually people around him kept praising him in exaggerated unnatural way.

---2a) Unnecessary Entreprenurial Compliment

A director said he's so entrepreneurial that MC would never get scammed (Like yeah director is well unaware to the director this is MC's 2nd life.. & Crypto is a ponzi scheme according to CoinDesk so if MC failed his art endeavors, he'd be scammed in the end...)

---2b) Even Trump would want to buy MC's Art

I really couldn't suspend my disbelief... when real life people were being mentioned, the whole Trump chapter where the tv host Jimmy would flatter MC's art of the oval office to the point that even President Trump would buy his work seems really unrealistic. (Like Trump has bought vanity portraits of himself which I which I think makes sense to hear a comment if MC drew Trump, but MC drew the oval office... so why specifically Trump would be willing to buy it? Can't Obama want to buy it too?) But I really don't think TV hosts would comment statements like that so specifically too. It just felt unnatural

reconciliation just ends with MC saving his family with money & father as failure artist.

• One part stuck out to me when MC reconciled with his father, after MC paid his grandma's hospital bills & his father told MC about not wanting MC to follow his footsteps as MC's father failed as an artist. The story resonated enough with MC he made a work about his father and then got famous and rich off of it.
• However my issue with this is, it just ends like that.
  I know originally MC planned to cut himself off from his family based on the bad relationship in his past life.. But it seems he decided to cut himself regardless even if it's now peaceful.
• MC didn't take the chance to help his father get back into art or connect his father with his own connection network, despite MC already having the know-hows & business to do so and got the second chance to pursue his dream.
• Like I know this is unnecessary but the author loved to do collabs but MC didn't do one with his father.... which could help his father no longer be a 'failure' as artist. But it seems like the author's goal was just to have MC bank off of this failure story.... not invest in his father giving well father is too old to get back into art impression.... MC definitely missed the opportunity to invest & give his father a second chance to fulfill his dream just like MC just got a second chance..

• I wish the Rival Seo Ji-won was more expanded. MC had a rival same-age artist Seo Ji-won at the beginning of the college, which I thought would help MC grow in character in a way, but she just felt like a replaceable tool or a stepping stone comparison character.
• Like she is much better painter than MC and in past life did really well, but in this second life, MC took her spot.
• Reiterating the 'Rivals Fight over Thomas Kinkad's Painting' section, she later reappears fighting over famous painter Thomas Kinkade's painting she wanted to buy, but her character didn't change as she still felt immature & stubborn and didn't push MC into growing rather disappearing altogether.
• But I am disappointed author keeps sort of highlighting her as a failure compared to MC. Just because she sold one painting and MC sold all his works in the same gallery exhibition really doesn't mean she's worse compared to MC when the gallery exhibition isn't over. & art isn't a race competition but I felt that vibe.

MC gets gigs to promote a game tournament & make a music video and they go viral which fun variety. But it just seems like a 1 time thing...... what I don't get is why MC didn't just make viral videos (or his own social media accounts and go viral).. or even yet spend money on marketing to promote himself more. (Like there is a chapter very late in the novel titled marketing and I was just like wow you only got to that part then... XD)

I kind of felt like this was a missed opportunity and that the author was solely more focused on the idea of collabing with others since collabing with others let MC dabble in lots of other fun projects but ignored the marketing / social media aspects as can be repetitive.