The ML is gifting you live humans as dolls and you practically give zero sh*ts sitting on your ass not even bothering to, oh, I don't know, report this to your parents? Even if it was useless in the end, she should've at least tried something, no?

Also, another thing that came off as weird was how detached she seemed from her adoptive family. When the parents died, it basically was presented as a blip in the story. Like, "Oh, btw our parents died. Moving on..." I understand they are not her real parents, but come on! You lived with them for years yet you present about the same level of empathy as that of a newsreader.

The ML on the other hand does sh*t like blow up a goddamn tower with little to no consequences so, uh, there's that. Well, at least he isn't pervy like some MLs I unfortunately had the displeasure of meeting.

I'm loving it so far. Our MC is a bit powerless and clueless, but she does her best given the situation. It's still a bit early to say for sure what kind of person our MC is, but she's got a spark, at least.

I find ML's brand of psychopathy funny. He's a type of manchild that really can't differentiate right from wrong and only considers his own personal definition or reality of the world. In short, ML is insane.

He ties up people to gift to MC, why? Because MC wants dolls and ML's view of people are the same as dolls. Apart from the doll-thing, ML is just very vindictive and ruthless to people who betray or fail him.

Despite the cliched genre, it still somehow brings something fresh and new.

ML already shows signs of love for MC, but MC still plans to escape from him. We know she's going to fail, but somehow I think it's going to be fun ride.

As indicated in the tags, this novel has Male Yandere and Psychopath. So, this story may not be for you if you're not the type to like those. Please continue to read this post in case you want to bash the story for having these tags and/or because it's a yandere novel.

ML is both a Yandere and a Psychopath. However, we don't see him randomly torturing his subjects or others, because he isn't a sadist. Yes, he destroyed a whole tower (people have died), but he didn't do it for sh*ts and giggles. He had a (very skewed) reason. He is clingy (not yet) to creepy levels but there has been no hints that he'll ab*se or assault MC.

So far, ML is NOT:

• a sadistic f***
• mol3sting scum
• abusive b******

But he IS a yandere. What do we expect from yanderes? A cringey amount of clinginess, creepy behavior (most likely: stalking, watching someone sleep, may or may not keep mementos like hair or clothing of their loved ones), freaky declarations of love, may or may not be possessive (but most MLs are like this anyway), definitely obsessive, and just generally scary AF.

Do note that there are separate tags for Yandere and Psychopath, because there is a difference. Yandere-ness is the creepy behaviour (caused by mad love), but Psychopathy is just bad behavior (psychologically inherent or learned).

ML tying up people, destroying towers, and killing traitors are caused by his Psychopathy. His strange view of the world makes it seem alright to do these things we think of as batsh*t insane. Yes, his "dolls" are gifts for his sister, but any other Yandere would gift an actual doll. Sure, he destroyed that tower for MC, but only a Psychopath would think to destroy a tower because his sister didn't feel like it was pretty enough.

Does this mean that there is a chance ML might imprison or hurt MC in the future? Maybe, but I think it's more because of his Psychopathy than actual Yandereness. A Yandere who is overly possessive of, ab*ses, and/or mol*sts the MC is just a possessive, abusive pe*vert. Not all yanderes are possessive, abusive pe*verts. These traits happen (not at the same time) to other MLs, not just yanderes, and there are yanderes who are pretty nice and good, but still manage to be hella creepy because of their obsession (mad love).

Are relationships with Yandere unhealthy? Usually. Can relationships with Yandere be healthy? Hell yes, but there are few examples of this in webnovels unfortunately.

TL;DR

Don't read this if you don't like YANDERE or PSYCHOPATH and also please don't bash this just because of the tags.

When the FL finds her brother's psychopathic behavior as a child, she ignores it n doesn't inform the parents or tries to make him understand properly. Just hit n scold. She spends too much time on using her s*upid brain thinking up useless things, and she can't even execute them properly. It's like she lost all common sense and intelligence after reading the book. Is she really a person from the modem world? She didn't acquire much knowledge from the world she's living in (like the communication device) but she focuses on Boss level things like the marbles from the book.

She lives in fantasy and what WILL be instead of what CAN be. It's like the book is her only window to the world. Dude, u don't live in a tower imprisoned, go out n learn all kinds of things for when u run away n don't live off of diamond spoons. Well it's useless blaming the character when the author is dimwitted. They couldn't wait to jump over past incidents but now wasting time on trivial same day activity n frustrating monologue of an idiot.

And the ML is just a duke, not king. Well even a king is not omnipotent. He does crazy sh** like destroying public properties n what r the consequences? And do psychopaths do these kinds of things openly? Well I won't be reading it anymore just to lose brain cells. I could keep complaining but that'd just waste more time.

And as the world is a novel, one of which book she actually has on hand, it's irritating that she doesn't really even try to do anything to curb her brother's actions/viewpoints when she had literal years and ample opportunity to do so early before he became the duke (she never brought it up to her parents before they died or to anyone else, so who knows if she'd get any support, but to not even attempt to get adults around her to help is just vexing to read, actually all the chances she had to say something, with no reason not to, but never does is irritating as hell). It's also annoying when she gets surprised by his actions when she literally has a book telling her how psychotic he is and what resources he has access to. There are times when she acts like she barely knows anything about him, despite having the book and have lived with him his whole life.

Only like at the ~80th chapter does the brother confess and then they kiss around idk, ~100th chapter. It's just-- So much reading that was not necessary. All these plots made it seem like the author wanted to just stuff something in to make more chapters. Like was it necessary for her to test out the blue cloth on the beasts. Was it necessary to bring the "heroine" back for a chapter. WAS IT EVEN NECESSARY FOR HER TO GO STEAL THE BLUE CLOTH IN THE FIRST PLACE?? Anyway.

"The training field? Alex continued when asked for an explanation with a look on my face."

"Very often, Ash did warm up, but very occasionally. Before he became the Duke and as busy as he is now."

Since she could turn back time, why didn't she use it to gauge ML's reaction of her secret birth? Instead of suffering in a long time, just be done with it and confessed to ML earlier. Even if ML decided to kill her like in the original book, she could just turn back time and changed her strategy. But of course if MC used this method, the story will finish rather quickly and it would be boring.

• A transmigrator who could see the future decided to write it into a novel and tried to sell it for money. The God of Fate was so angry by that transmigrator for messing up her scenario. She decided to alter the story a bit by switching MC's soul with ML's destined person. That's why ML easily fell in love with MC and didn't get interested in the heroine at all.
• The heroine (Agatra) who was supposed to be ML's obsession suddenly changed into a transmigrator (Ari). Because of her existence was considered a "bug", the world tried to kill her again and again to correct the plot. MC, who symphatized with Ari because of her young age (she's just a high school student in her world), tried to save Ari from her demise by turning back time several times while trying to matchmake her with ML. Of course it didn't work because both MC and the heroine's souls were already changed. Speaking of Ari, I quite like her because she's so adorable. Maybe because she's just a high school student so her mind was quite simple. She saw MC as her older sister and later they became a best friend. Too bad, Ari decided to go back to her own world and the heroine changed to Agatra again.

MC and ML's daughter was so cute and adorable. And also, almost all side characters got their happy ending too.