-ML is older, and honestly, kinda creepy. It's not sweet. I don't know how the romance even progresses when he's like this

-How do the police actually somehow justify this stuff? Why does the ML even believe her so easily? The suspension of disbelief needs to be very high. Also, you need to give the police weird novel super powers to have it work

-There's like blatant ab*se of authority from the police/and the wealthy to settle grudges or punish so called criminals in ways that are pretty uncomfortable. It's just the classic Chinese authority figure/rich worship, which is in most novels. Like they just.. beat criminals and stuff and somehow the criminals confess? Idk it does not play out in any realistic way

-The novel has some parts written which are supposed to 'empower' women but then the actual MC is hella reliant on ML and they end up forcing traditional Chinese womanly virtues on situations where they don't make sense

-What actually made me drop the novel is MC at the start was like "I need to use this power responsibly for the public good" and when she sees

Seriously a huge moral failure and a major example of Chinese culture being straight up backwards on social issues. This is the same MC who warned somebody to avoid breaking a bone, but entirely caused a tragedy in this case because conservatism brainrot

They don't get together until the last chapter. They have one almost date before then where they only ate dinner lol.

to be fair, I think the author had good intentions by finally giving lesbian representation in a heteros*xual novel and overall highlighting the growing acceptance and challenges for lesbians especially as celebrities. That's my preface. Bc tbh I'm not sure queer really exists in a lot of BG novels like this. So I think this was added with good intentions. HOWEVER...I mean lol I think the author actually wrote the MC out of character for what the author did to the lesbians.

I genuinely don't know if it's better to just not have any queer representation versus having lesbian representation to then make their love story become a common tragic "suicidal/homicidal" story & not only that, but be the ONLY one that the MC forgets the death date about, never warns any of them about the deaths, and have be the only deaths the the MC is like 'oops I can't save everyone but I do really feel bad that I forgot about their deaths'. Not to mention I just realized, unless I read this incorrectly, she forgot they died on the day she had a dinner with the ml. That's some heteros*xual shit. Likee is there internalized h*mophobia the author doesnt know they have? I mean look I can psychoanalyze like I said a lot of things from this novel about the author if I wanted to, but it is all speculation.

However, the facts are I don't actually think the MC is at fault here. I think the author wrote her out of character. She wouldn't forget about someone's death date like that. Unless the author is writing her with internalized h*mophobia Lmao. but no I think this is the case of the author trying to do a good thing while also showing their cards they didn't even know they had in their brains. AGAIN SPECULATION. But it's still facts that the author didn't have to end the ONLY queer representation in this novel so tragically and honestly negligently - basically the author went "oops the gays are dead and damn didn't even try do anything to prevent it" lol. And that's where I was like author what a shame. Kinda ruined this 5 star for me.

And too bad bc I love the MC and ML a Lot. They don't have crazy passion but I just likee how capable and smart and helpful they are. They're just there for each other.

That was my 2 cents. Don't let this push u away from it. I don't actually think the author means to be homophobic lol. Like I said.

It revealed the mystery of Shen Yuanye's original death in the first chapter and her identity

I guess that one of the qualms people have is the fact that the lack of the development of romance between the two leads can make some reader think that SY is only trying a relationship because she saw in the future that they got married (he died of old age on her tombstone).