Characters are well written. Story is good so far.

But more importantly...

It’s a romance story with no harem finally!     ;-;

Don’t get me wrong, i’m not hating on the harem genre or anything like that.

It’s just rare to find a decent romance novel for once that doesn’t have a polygamy.

Anyways don't mind my rant. Give this story a go, it's well worth your time.

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After binge reading all the way up to chapter 14, the prospect of this story getting into trending is definitely there. Both the MC and villainess are very well written up to this point, and the author is very good at explaining why certain thing came to be and how things are the way they are in a very believable manner. The author is also good at tying things up together, connecting what you can read in the past chapters to the present one, and it'll just make you go "OHhhhhhh!" The MC also has a  interesting personality to him, and the way he talks is also very good. His interactions with the side characters and the villainess are the best. I never got bored reading this story at all.

5 stars! Highly recommended!

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Made an acc just to say this novel is freaking awesome. Character writing is good, the magic system is interesting and the whole experience is very immersive. Plus the current update rate is crazy good.

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This story is a mixed bag, the story part is great. I love the way our MC goes about his life and his goals. It is an interesting situation trying to support the abused and unwanted noble child. However the writing needs work. There are a lot of spelling and grammar issues. The story is only beginning but already suffers from a good number of series of events, conclusions, and choices that break the believability. I won't go into details here but It made accepting parts of the story difficult. Also the MC's core tenants don't fit with what most I know would consider a good life, they do fit with living a self gratifying life. 

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This story reminds me of when I first began reading stories on Novelupdates. It was a time when I loathed the idea of a harem story and would go out of my way to filter them out of my searches. 

How times have changed...  

This story gives me ‘villainess butler’ vibes, but with marvellous story telling and honestly, succulent writing quality. Like literally it’s juicy af. Idk if I should read on update or when S2 is complete. What a dilemma I’ve found myself in 

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So far so good, I love the character

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Keep updating, its good so far.

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I absolutely love this story. It throws away most of those awful main character clichés such as OP MC and the idea that he has to be emotionless except for anger and love. I also love how alice is a fleshed out, intelligent character and not just a trophy for MC.

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So far its a great story, nice characters, set goals, interesting premise, immersive.

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I don't intend this review as a bash on the author or the story. I binged most of what I read.  I just looked through the reviews and felt that the negative reviews could be a lot more helpful. This is my poor attempt to fill that gap:

The author writes well enough and responds to his readers. A few signs of being green in the writing but nothing to feel ashamed about. The story itself was enjoyable enough until the author tried too hard to engineer a very specific set of emotional responses. It brought in many gimicks and tools; over using and abusing them to the point that I stopped caring.

I'm dropping the story but recommend it to anyone who doesn't shy away at all from time travel and time loop gimicks. It's used in this story but not in the way you might think. I bring it up because it's related to why I gave up and dropped it. I found it annoying but someone else could probably appreciate it better.

>>Deeper look<< *spoiler-ish*: [go to the ### for no spoiler summary]

In the beginning, I enjoyed the set up well enough. The core two characters ended up being compelling for me. I wanted to see them rise and succeed. The story was kind of cute in an evil child sort of way. :-D

The first tiny cracks really showed for me when his 'tenants' started to get pulled in more and more. It just doesn't feel like those are his rules. However, not a huge problem. wouldn't surprise me that I'm just missing something.

Then we start to learn more about his unique origin and make up... makes even less sense but I can keep playing along. The final straw for me was around chapter 60. We get these decently long chapters where almost nothing happens and it feels like it's supposed to be really emotional and symbolic but with a lot of repeated text. To me it felt like a pointless tirade by a side characer we've never seen before rehashing over and over a point that feels unrelated. The character comes to a realization that's just punching a brick wall (almost literally) and then gets a big power up!... just to use it in the most unimaginative way possible (sort of). I don't see how the fight went so poorly before and did so well after.

###------>Basically the whole arc surrounding chapter 60 felt over contrived and meaningless. Attempting to build meaning and emotional tension artificially rather than organically. It also rode on the "T. L." gimick too hard. Most likely trying to explain how the scene is supposed to fit.

I dropped it because I stopped caring about the characters and concluded that the rest of the story would be heavily influenced by that arc. I suspect my distaste for butterfly effect stories might have gotten in the way of me seeing the deeper more emotional side of the arc. All the comments seemed to appreciate it.###

PS- There were other ways that the story was loosing some color for me before that but I find myself incapable of putting it into words at the moment.

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