He doesn't hesitate to beat up even the youngest princess of the country, who happens to be a brat, well due to circumstances.

There's a chance that there might be some incest involved, that would be rather forced since the MC clearly stated that he sees his sister only as his sister and nothing else even though she's a clone, rather than his real sister.

The letter describes what will happen and the MC is just ignoring it, even after confirming that the things written about are in fact happening. His "friend" just got into a ducking coma and the MC was lamenting ignoring the letter until he was even accidentally spilling it to his childhood friends. Since they are such good friends they immediately and aggressively start telling him that he is ducked in the head, even knowing he has amnesia. What nice childhood friends he as :) ! LMAO

So, what does our genius MC decide to do next? Gaslighting himself into thinking the letter is a prank, what the duck? However he at least still tries to make sure. After the next inevitable HAPPENING in the story the MC had the best opportunity yet to take others on board for the letter. He was hospitalized after an incident described in the letter and could have just told his childhood friends to fetch it and read it so that they start believing him and helping him. But not even the author thought of that so it doesn't even get mentioned. Instead his childhood friend starts group bullying his future girlfriend with all the hints dropped into his face from the other childhood friend and he still doesn't get it. I just dropped it here.

He makes his stand even when the princess threatens him, he asks her in return

"how long would it take you to destroy my family and friends and even their families"

Princess "2 months"

MC was like "Too long by then it (the world) will end"

He proceeds to beat her up also there is gradual growth in MC personality he doesn't became absolute ruthless after one or two possession

By end of the pricess' letter arc he actually makes the princess bow and kiss his feet.. That scene was epic

But mind u don't judge it as an abuse novel just because of that part, there are actual reasons for falling for MC. MC also doesn't hesitate to chop off arms of the people who bashes the people he cares about without coming out as cringe as generic CN MC.

It's everything against being a simp. Also Korean reviewers repeatedly praised MC brazen attitude of welding an axe without a care in the world. If you don't trust my word just check on Namu. So the lower star rating is just baseless claim of minority not general consensus.

At the chapter when Emma was hospitalized, people harshly criticized the MC for disregarding the love letter to just be someone's troll but let us be real here; who in their right mind would take such a letter seriously at start. Emma going into comatose was heartbreaking for me too but I was also interested as to how the author will carry out the story and how the MC will act in the future and rn I can confidently say that the MC most definitely developed from this incident and has even been given a proper reason to follow along with the love letters.

Seria and Elsie were pretty much conditioned into being dependent on him.

MC beat up Delphine so much (well deserved at first for the sh*t she pulled during the hunting festival) that she eventually gets trained Pavlovian style and then Stockholm (I kid you not MC literally used the Carrot and the StickAxe method and turned her into a willing pet, and MC loses his v**ginity to Delphine).

Shien/Cien (the princess in a powertrip) got mentally f*cked and guilt tripped over at the end of her introduction arc despite Ian!Alter starting the mess.

Oh and theres also Celine who was introduced at the same time as Seria and is Ian's childhood friend, but barely has a development arc, which is worse than the whole "Delphine becomes a pet" thing since she's relegated to the void lmao.

Best Girl Saintess has healthier relationship with Ian than the other girls, as she's the only girl who Ian can banter with without any uncomfortable stuff... and he f*cks it up by NEVER EVER doing a proper talk with her until much later on, leading to poor Saintess to have a drop in self-worth by the time he did have one. SAINTESS DESERVES BETTER!

Emma, despite being in a coma for the first 2 arcs, had MORE development than Celine. Despite Emma spelling it out that she LOVES the MC unconditionally, MC takes it as "Oh how great of her, she's willing to marry a Noble like me for her family".

Parades himself internally as some kind of savior, but gets sh*t on that he doesn't even try and see how life is from the Bottom. Something that I liked from the Elf Arc where MC got humbled.

Head over heels for the MC but she just doesn't know it yet

I find it ridiculous and funny with how the harem fanatics of this series really did try to justify how the MC is not a simp. There is no doubt the series for the most part is okay, except for the inconsistencies and bad development. I can definitely understand if some people gets annoyed by the hypocrisy of the MC. Added to the fact that author is continuously using a repetitive development which makes it boring in the 2nd half; sure you will get a lot of annoyed readers about this.

This is the perfect example of a simp MC being disguised as a pure "alpha". MC's blatant hypocrisy and certain bias towards female characters is really disturbing. If he's not a simp, why would he try to find reasons just to justify the s*upid actions of the people he simps. That's the irony and hypocrisy of the series, if MC is a true alpha like what some of the reviews claimed then why would he easily gets influenced by some of the characters just because he likes them. If they're doing something s*upid then why justify their action? Most of the reviewers claimed MC doesn't hesitate to correct certain actions of some characters/girls yet he himself is hypocrite by justifying some of the people he has certain bias. If that is not a plot hole, bad development, inconsistent as opposed to what is being portrayed; then I don't know what do these harem fanatics think of it. MC is a simp for his harem, that's the truth. MC's action in regards to not bowing to nobles is good, we can say he's alpha in that area, but a true alpha will always be in control of their emotions and decision making. They will not justify s*upid actions of someone just because of their certain bias towards a person they like. I will stand by my opinion here, the story is fantastic however came crashing and became just the typical harem novel with a lot of typical cliche and annoying females. Goodness I can't even stand some of the childishness and st**id actions and personality of some of the heroines. I've also read the series in hangul so I can definitely attest that the series has a good writing style with a unique use of hanja. I don't care if the novel has a fantastic writing style and beautiful use of poetic hanja. A novel is all about plot and development, if a novel shows st**id development, shows hypocrisy and questionable action and development contrary to what the character is being portrayed, even if the writing style is good with poetics, it's still a tr*sh development. It's easy to claim the series is perfect, won awards and loved by many Korean fans, however to debunk these argument, those Korean people who supports the series is a same bunch of harem fanatics like these people. It's so easy to defend and to ignore the s*upid development and hypocrisy if you like the series.

Aside from these cons, I do admit the actions and fighting scenes were good. I'm not an entirely hater of harem. If a harem was done in a fantastic way with good development then it's fine. But if you will add harem just to confuse the MC and make him dumb and hypocrite then it's a tr*sh development. Overall, the series is just normal, not great and not perfect, except for harem fanatics of course.