MC: His motives and growth are too inexplicable. In his previous life, he was saved by the princess of the kingdom his family betrayed. She despised him and only saved him so she can use him like a pawn. The affection she had for him is similar to the affection a pedestrian might have for a dog turd on the sidewalk. He ends up dying anyway. Yet, after his rebirth, MC treats her like she's his goddess. Ok, sure, whatever. Maybe she's his type. What's less believable is that somehow, despite the MC being a useless garbage in his first life, he's suddenly now a cunning mastermind who's well versed in politics and economics.

MC's mom: Oh boy. *Takes a deep breath*. I struggle to find the words to describe this disgusting character. My expression when I'm thinking about how to describe her is similar to the expression one might have when appraising a c*ckroach.

She is a subhuman who lacks the emotions that makes humans human. She's disloyal, irresponsible, and selfish. She cheats on her husband with the king, and then constantly prioritizes the king's wellbeing over her husband and children. When her son found out, she even tried to secretly notify the king, completely disregarding her son's safety. The king would have surely sent assassins after the boy, but she doesn't even consider it.

She has no capacity to feel guilt, familial bonds, and can't consider the consequences of her actions. Her husband, who she claims to love, is the strongest person in the Kingdom and the only one preventing the enemies from invading. Despite all that, she still cheats on him. She then plays the victim, fake-crying and pretending to be unconscious. Yeah, basically this character is disgusting, but has so much screen time for whatever reason.

MC's dad: He's a complete moron. Despite being the strongest being in the kingdom both physically and politically, with the ability to replace the king anytime he wants, he choses to yield the Kingdom to its enemy, the Empire. Obviously, no one's going to trust a turncoat, so he was executed by the Empire afterwards. His reasoning makes zero sense. If he's going to rebel, why not just take over himself? He has an invincible position in the kingdom, since his troops are the ones defending the chokepoint border. He's personally strong enough to waltz into the kingdom and chop the king's head off, and the empress supports him. Also, despite him being infatuated with his wife, he apparently neglects her in bed? This character literally makes no sense.

The king: Ah yes, the king. His kingdom's survival is completely reliant on ONE person to defend a chokepoint from a larger nation, and instead of building good relations with that person he sleeps with his wife. His IQ is about the same as the temperature of the wine he guzzles.

The princess: MC is infatuated with her and worships the floor she walks on, but she's essentially a dollar-store heroine. Very dry interactions.

willingly has an adulterous affair with the king due to the fact that MC father hasn't been intimate with her for ages (assumably because he put her some sort of untouchable pedestal) resulting in him finding out snippets of it and thinking the king forced a kiss on her despite it being willing

who has an affair with the wife of the strongest person in your nation, the person who is notoriously protective over his wife, the person who's family single handedly defends your Nations key weak point again the aggressive Empire that has been trying to conquer you for centuries.

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When it comes to how they explained the character it’s a bit off. For example the reason the MCs father can’t kill the king is because of the pact made with a dragon and the royal bloodline.

As for the mom she isn’t anywhere near as heartless as @sacredteacups described and when it come to the MC if you do read properly then you’d know why he’s as smart as he is he literally learned from the best in his past life. He also wasn’t talentless garbage he was a sword master like his father his only issue was that he was outclassed when it came to protecting everyone from the antagonist that is the emperor.

The king is a scumbag and also on drugs and pretty much out of his mind. As for the gorge I don’t know why it’s a con that it’s an important defensive point there actually a lot of lore behind it if you keep reading past 30 chapters.

The ntr which was true, but nothing according to the hater said, is one thing, but it was said the MC and his siblings are actually the king's children. This meant- in*est... as the whole plot is essentially simping to the princess who saved him (ignoring the 10 years of the empire and also the other princess of that [enemy faction] chasing after him]) and staying alive. But luckily it was later hinted that the MC's father also had an affair with the Queen, meaning she could possibly be the MC's father's (who was said to be impotent) actual child. possibly

some people think that neira was the one the MC was obsessed with but it's just not true, she was just a pawn the MC use to overthrow the king, and the real heroine wasn't introduced until at least chapter 40/50. While the MC looked like he was using her in reality he was head over heels for her. I might argue that it was a bit much but there's nothing wrong of being in love with someone. I swear all these people who can't stand this is either A. Never touch grass or B. Incels who gave up with women cause "AlL tHeM GUrlS aRE ThE SAmE" mentality. Though I did felt a bit bad for the father of the MC for being cucked lol, but that's a different story, and I don't enjoy the time reading through those but once i've gone past that it was okay.

also to clear up some misunderstanding, there was no affair between MC's father with the queen, at least not yet at the time I'm writing this review and please don't worry MC is indeed the child between Crimson (MC's father) and Charlotte (MC's mother). I don't know where all this "MC is a bastard son between the margrave and the queen or a bastard between the margravine and the king" and sh*t came but it was clearly implied that the affair between MC's mother and the king was a one time thing and could be called a r*pe and it does not bear fruit or a child. Also the relation between MC's father with the queen was pretty much nothing and there's zero chance of them having an affair which meant the chance of them having kids is pretty much zero.