It's also easy to make the supposed heroine and her twin sister become villains by giving them unlikable traits that they seem to suddenly acquire. The author easily takes away their halos once it was convenient for the plot to make the "villains" look better.

Wasn't the female heroine everyone liked not just for her face? Her character settings flipped and now she's shameless and selfish and even the servants and knights of the house don't even like her and are exhausted being around her. Why the sudden switch in attitude tho? Because she's "soon-to-be-queen" now? I'm just saying that phase change is not natural. And it makes her seem pretty dumb to shed all pretenses like this and not expect her good for nothing might as well blend into the wall decor husband to just be loyal to her forever if she doesn't meet expectations. And this brainless guy was supposed to inherit the throne???

Not to mention, the supposed genius prodigy who suddenly replaced the MC as Prime Minister is a wet behind the ears greenhorn who couldn't even uncover any of his schemes and is always a step behind.

In conclusion, the capture targets of the female heroine are all laughable. So called talented youths who are just pawns in the MC's game. The author made everyone around them more s*upid than the villain, had the villain gain instant allies, to begin with I don't understand why the Head Priest and the Ancient Dragon decided they could place their loyalty and trust on him all of a sudden, and he was able to get away with playing pretend as a white lotus.

MC did eventually reveal his dark side to his partner. Which, fair.. Given he's the type of guy who slept with his lover when she was supposed to wed the MC- he's not exactly a saint and okay, to put it plainly, he thinks with his dick. So no wonder, MC was willing to take the risk during the circus event.

She does not even achieve her political comeuppance until after her violation, and despite her attitude, it was implied that while the Crown Prince was all but embarrased by her, he still loved her deeply - and so, I guess it was assumed that she would never get her retribution until she was r*ped by a magical beast and produced a baby that wasn't his own (To which the act was called, 'A sin of the parents', despite the fact that it was r*pe, and they are all well awarethe nature of the magical beast... How is that a sin? I digress) . Anderheim even expresses his surprise and subsequent joy at this. It was not something he had planned at all, and yet it was still used to quick-start her downfall, regardless of the fact that her position as fiancee of the Crown Prince was flimsy at best and it would have happened anyway. It even felt like the author did not know how to truly 'get rid' of her - reusing the punishment of Melia to end her story arc. And speaking of Melia, did we all forget that she is still the Dragon Priestess? The whole point of her acceptance of the role was because of the power it held, and while she did recieve Donna's Punishment, how could they complete the festival without her? Donna's Punishment was only intended to keep her actions confined, right? But she was no longer mentioned after she invited Nasha into the magical beasts den to get r*ped. In their words, the Dragon Priestess, " administers the festival, manages the ritual and listens to the peoples’ worries." I think, maybe, the author forgot about the description they gave to this role because the festival was completed without any hitch. I checked, the dragon priestess was not mentioned whatsoever in chapter 59 when the festival was held. But, perhaps I misread the past few chapters where they apparently explained how her presence wasn't needed. It happens. But even then, how was it possible that she was sold to the Dog Show? I really don't understand. Again, Donna's Punishment does not revoke her of her status, it just keeps her confined. So how was Anderheim able to get her caught up in that show, even with Malacia's help? I read this book over the course of the night and finished at approximately 3 AM, so there is a chance I missed something, but I'm still very confused on how Melia getting r*ped held any significant weight in the plot whatsoever. Her arc should have ended when she recieved Donna's Punishment. She would be put on the back burner until the festival, and Nasha did not even seem to mourn her that much after a few months. Her r*pe and forced imp**gnation was simply used for shock value, and I find that despicable.

I guess they attempted to use their brain when discussing Malacia's relationship with predatory men, and how that affected his s*xual drive and physiological response to their pleasure, but it was heavily implied that he ended up liking it when Lutora had s*x with him, and though he had a fever and evaluated his thoughts on their relationship, that was the end of any attempt at using r*pe as a plot device rather than a catalyst for plot development.

Ignoring his acting, he really does love his daughter, he blessed the beastman infant of Nasha, he's helping the Crown Prince from behind the scenes and never once punishes him (You could say marrying Nasha was the punishment he got, but considering the fact that Anderheim didn't let Melia go, even when she wasn't really a main character and held no particular weight to the original story beyond what Anderheim manipulated her to be, its safe to say that he did nothing in particular in response to the Crown Prince who basically sent his daughter off to die), and despite how uncouth their relationship is, he truly loves Jolga as well - seeing him as something more than someone to be manipulated as the volume came to a close.

Vanellope and Juileta. There were five women with notable roles in this novel in total, which means over half of the female cast got nuked, hmmm.

I understand this is a Boys Love novel, but the readiness to torture, purge, and violate former female love interests is a little strange, don't you think? And, again, their punishments could have been a lot more unique, if we are going to go down the morally deplorable route. Making Melia a drug addict put under (legal) comatose was already interesting, and they could have continued with the process of Nasha slowly losing everyone's favor leading up to the festival where she runs off with the Dragon Pearl - there are many ways to conclude that retribution you know? For instance, She ends up still being eaten in Juileta's place by angering the Dragon in her typical oblivious female lead way, or something. Sending her off to a villa in the middle of nowhere after she believed she had a miscarriage? I don't know, that seems more pitiful than a form of justice. Even in the epilogue they kind of glaze past her ending, offhandedly remarking that the Crown Prince replaced her with Vanellope (His cousin, might I add. The author seems to be very fond of pseudo-in*est and extramarital affairs.)

The main characters ‘master’ plan was to destroy the kingdom after everyone had already had died what was the point hurting innocent people keep in mind in the MCs past life what led him to cultivate such a personality. How is a normal game playing person capable of outsmarting the whole kingdom.

The mc’s past life was never really explored which it could of but anyway I felt like the time skip was super unexpected like okay we are supposed to process this and move on to the death of the MC after the death of the ML like what

It's the Knight Commander Jolga

they aren't blood related but are kind of pseudo-step siblings??and a character ends up marrying their blood relative knowing they're blood related sooo