Curiosity got the better of me, and I asked something that had been on my mind for a while.

“Raven.”

“Yes?”

“If the me now and the me from the past were two different people, and they both confessed their feelings for you, who would you choose?”

Raven’s brows furrowed, making him look as sour as the lemons he was squeezing.

“This is the most pointless question I’ve ever heard in my life.”

Then he turned the question back on me.

“What about you?”

“I asked first.”

Raven leaned in and whispered in my ear,

“My answer is... Strawberry Head can date the Mad Dog of Hell, and the Inspector Raven Hunt can date Thief Crow.”

A wise answer to a foolish question.

It might seem as meaningless as my question, but if you think about it, it’s actually quite profound.

The 20-year-old me with the 20-year-old Raven, and the 30-year-old me with the 30-year-old Raven.

The love we had in our twenties was different from the love we have now in our thirties.

Back then, it was certainly love, but it felt reckless and blinding, like a precarious first love.

Now, our love has deep roots and is strong, unshaken by any storm.

We separated and found our own places, becoming independent adults, and then reunited.

Perhaps that’s why we could love each other for a long time.

MC is a phantom thief who by daytime works as an assistant in the officer of the police that are chasing her. And not a soul suspects anything because the dorky girl obviously cant be the femme fatale thief skippin around town. She happily plays sneaky tricks to ensure her ongoing freedom

The ending arc and the ending itself isn't very satisfying, but I can't complain much. I just hoped for the world to be another world, but in the end, it's really just a game....

MC decided to live within the game, which is fine. However, I hoped for, at least, an explanation about what really happened.

Unfortunately, here's zero explanation of what happens to her in real life. Like, real zero explanation. Even how she got her consciousness inside the game wasn't explained properly. What if she died IRL, what if she died in game, what if...? There's a lot of what ifs.

All in all, it's not a very good ending. Happy ending, yeah, but a sloppy one.

ML is the lost son of hunt family the youngest master.

He was kidnapped by some mafia gang and there he was bullied and harrased and forced to kill others. He was asked to kill dorris hunt as he doesn't know he was his son

So, the final arc is this big thing of them trying to track down the ruby. While this occurred before this arc had a lot of forced plot lines occurring. The main couple gets stranded but luckily the system unlocked the "survival system" that allowed her to in a very short time level up enough to make fracture healing medicine, build them a house, and find food. Then just by pure coincidence they camped at a place where the rare birds molt giving her plenty of feathers to make some super broken flight power armor suits. Sure, whatever. It feels a bit plot armory with how they just happened to run into this many birds and stuff but its not a big deal.

Then, once they escape instead of completing their mission and retrieving the jewel when they have the chance instead they simply track the ones carrying the jewel to find their base. Unless I somehow missed something they did this on their own imitative without anything like the government ordering them to do it. So, that entire action sequence just feels really s*upid.

Then the people with the jewel suddenly go to an underwater base, where the final villain is the cat cult lady. There the cat lady suddenly uses a random bs item to steal all of the mc's items and reveals that she was actually a game developer that had a grudge so she set it up so the servers would have issues at peak playtime. This somehow lead to her and a bunch of players being trapped in the game including our MC. Crazy cat lady then reveals that she has been kidnapping all of the players and all of this evil stuff, and I mean... It just felt like such a bad twist if I can even call it that.

Reading it felt like being thrown into a washing machine where it suddenly feels like I'm reading a different book. The main couple advertised as smart are suddenly making bad choices, we suddenly get a bunch of stuff about the evil mastermind who monologs all of her evilness... I feel like the author really wanted a big final bang for the series but this just felt bad to read for me.

So much in this final arc feels like that... We had so much set up on this secretive group and then the evil organization flashes a gun and they are gone from the story. The trials were built up to but they literally just opened since they were faithful to each other, one bad riddle, and then they brute forced the rest of them and it didn't even lead to anything.

I just... Idk, the ending felt lacking to me. I think it would have been a lot better if we had some bullsh*t like them realizing that they love each other through the trails. I'm not good enough to explain why, but this entire plot just felt bad to read and even though it should be the point in the book where all the buildup gets paid off I'm instead annoyed by the whole thing and skimming chapters.

Again, I'll end this with the book not being bad. The book I would say is good, but at least for me the final arc soured the series for me and I'll just imagine it had a different ending. I'll also add that this is just my opinion, and so I might just be really critical to something that other people loved and you will enjoy the ending.