main character puts her through is seriously heartbreaking. I cried BUCKETS. They broke her so bad mentally she started seeing her "childhood friend" again and developed a severe separation anxiety.

Needing months to process an unfamiliar situation with no guidance or help from others, craving love and affection you were denied as a child, guilt gnawing at your very fiber of being because at face value... You're an outsider. An imposter. A fraud. The very feeling of detachment the MC feels in this world and... Who they are fundamentally. This is why I put an emphasis on how the author managed the GB aspect. A disconnect from this world written in full form within a feeling of discontentment with your current body/self is an amazing example on how to use GB as a way of growth rather than a poor excuse.

The author made an extra effort to add the little things which is why the MC... No, why Tina feels so alive. She feels relatable, she feels vulnerable, and she feels strong. Even when being a psychopath, her condition has more of an impact/relevance in how she interacts regarding the people in her life while having a valid justification as to how she became the person she is today rather than a convenient plot device to excuse/justify her actions.

She's selfish and a manipulator undeniably so, whether or not on purpose. But at the same time, you can't blame her for the situation she's forced within and all. For the very sake of survival, people will and have turned to drastic measures just to survive, the MC is no different. She acts the way she is, not because of her being a psychopath but far from it, she acts the way she is with little regard for others not only to survive but also the way she views them. She still thinks of them as characters in a video game rather than someone with their own autonomy. I say this because until now, she is still making comparisons of them in real life and to their persona in fiction. Why regard them as real when you know you're stuck in a videogame?

Hot take, but I don't believe the MC has the makings of a villainess because at most, she's just an emotionally stunted and lonely child despite being 20 in her past life, not some incredible and elaborate puppet master. She is the way she is due to her circumstance. A girl resulted from a cruel and unfair world.

The expansion of the world more or so than it already had blossoms during the arrival of the saintess and I was quite pleasantly surprised. For a novel that seemed to not have much of a fantasy aspect up to this point other than... You know, transmigration to a game world, so to be introduced to mana up until now felt somewhat... Rushed? Though I'd understand it for the buildup in regards to the saintess's arrival. Despite this, it wasn't bad in the slightest. The introduction of mana manages to also foreshadow the biggest plot twist the novel has thrown at us by a landslide which even I was caught out of the blue and I could see why they held off introducing mana up until then so that the world may be able to focus on what's currently happening now, rather than suddenly dropping a massive lore piece that doesn't have any relevance now until later chapters.

The MC basically has to be a 'pet' for people who are high socially who in turn serves as protection and income hence, the name of the novel, Society's pet daughter. The reason being is because she became a side character whose background is a fallen noble who is heavily in debt. I don't have that much of a problem with this as the pacing is amazing, the author making the sequence of events as coherent and fluid but... Here's a thing, there's a character that is the one of MC's main source of protection as well as influence. That character was a villainess in a game whom the author characterized as sadistically pe*verted.

Due to the MC needing said influence, they became the main source of conflict, reason being... In exchange of being allies, the villainess sexually ab*sed the MC and personally, it felt as if it was being downplayed despite it having a huge role in the later chapters. I won't fault the author for adding such scenes because it's more or so draws a parallel of how powerless the MC is against people of authority, having to bow down sacrifice dignity in the face of their unwavering status, but I do believe they could have handled it with more nuance because when scenes of obvious s*xual ab*se occurs, it feels like a one off thing as the MC herself not showing any signs of trauma and or major reaction long after the ab*se had been done despite the author showing that it happens often.

Things like this leave a scar, even if you're a psychopath, even if you're a sociopath, even if you are affected by anything really, occurrences like this will feel violating, even more or so her job being a "pet". Why? Despite both of them involving physical touch, the level of intensity is different.

Whenever you see a character like this, it begs one to wonder why add such characters in the first place? Is it simply the need to add an obligatory rapist character or something more? Obviously, it's the latter.

You see, at first, wouldn't you act the same way as I described before? To feel ashamed, humiliated, terrified and so much more emotions that words could never encapsulate the true feeling of despair and yet, the MC moves on, like the puppet she conditioned to be. You feel a disconnect because up till now, you connected to her, don't you? Even by a little. Maybe you have connected to the MC by the way she acts inside her 'home', inside the battleground known as society, or maybe that one singular time she opened up and cried (Keep this in mind). If you've been observant up to this point, you'd notice the devil in the details. Disassociation. We've seen it countless times before, iterated by the MC herself, she sees this as nothing but a game. Something like r*pe would feel so much more visceral than... Whatever this is but what happens if you simply slap the thought of, "all of this is simply a game that I can quit soon enough." Maybe this is what I've missed. Everything has a reason after all. Though, you may be asking, what's the goal of pointing this out? It's to give awareness for the small rift the author has created that will soon be bath in blood, not of others but your own, well, the MC's blood that is.

During the later arcs, we're introduced to someone... Or maybe, something that has been guiding along the MC throughout their journey in this "game.", the only one who the MC themselves have noted as to love them fully. Your first thought would be the best friend, right? After all, who else could have loved the MC? Certainly not her previous mother.

Did I forgot to mention that the MC is an unreliable narrator? Silly Me.

Continuing off here, the MC finally meets the saintess. I won't go into detail since that'll spoil the fun but it is important to note the repeated iteration of justification the MC has in the sole excuse of, "It'll be fine. She's just a character in a game. She's too kind to pay revenge, right?" Right. Though, does it matter? The MC is about to reach the ending of her story anyways.

Now, everything that happened in the story has been building up to this. Her feelings of unbelonging to a world made of fiction, she can finally leave. Sadly, there's no happy ending to her story, her actions have consequences after all.

Since she used to be a man, she's just emulating what he saw his female friend doing in the past life. Unfortunately, she doesn't think gay people exist in medieval times. I'm not sure if my bar for master manipulators is low, but she very good at psychological things. Except, the way she does it is a disaster in the future. There is also elements of ab*se and well, pe*verts. The mother-daughter relationship sure is strong....