The author is clearly awkward with how to handle the "sent to a medieval-like period" setting (and unable to consider many aspects), but he's careful not to go overboard with a MC who suddenly becomes an all-knowing genius just because he's from modern times (he often dismissingly sees others as 'primitives', though). He only introduces basic things that anyone can know and understand and he doesn't even know how to properly develop or take advantage of them (he 'invents' basic printing but doesn't invent the actual press, for example). Even his economic 'ideas' are a total gamble based on weak knowledge and modern logic; it just somehow works out in the end due to circumstances he never even considered (like having a direct access to the sea).

The author uses tropes relatively well by not pushing them too far most of the time. For example, the MC has the 'reverse luck' trait (when he tries to achieve something his actions lead him further away from his goal, making him a bit miserable at first, but leading him to a better fate in the long run) ; still, in other novels, the MC usually fails at failing, but here Aiden doesn't try to fail and accomplishes what he sets out to do; it's just that he doesn't consider the consequences of his actions properly and how impactful they can be.

For people who hated (like I did) the chapter where Jin makes it look like he's ready to get punished in any way by Aiden while clearly knowing that, with their power difference, it would do nothing to him (basically mocking him)... know that just after that, Luna literally destroys Jin. She cuts his path to knighthood, then Jin provokes her to a duel to reverse the judgement. He loses pitifully and she cuts and burns his hands before exiling him.

And then there's that r*pe thing with Taylor that ends in a happy marriage... Taylor is hateful, but the author went way too far with this one.

The whole trope of the MC gettign topped by the FL would've been great if only we don't hear him constantly going "Oh! but I'm a man! I should be the one dominating her!" alongside the FL at times being submissive just to feed his ego before ultimately, overpowering him. It was funny the first few times it happened but when the s*x scenes are constantly about this power imbalance it's just eye rolling, like you'd think after a year he'd start leaning into it a bit more or idk they communicate about this a bit more.

Lo and also behold, we have a lesbian suitor, Taylor, a woman who likes FL and dressed up as a man to court her but also hates men with her entire soul. What happened to her?she turns into a typical submissive girl. This is where it's so goddamn obvious to me that it's a man writing because omg it's like they don't have any comprehension of a woman just... not wanting to be with a man. It's like the Author think the reason lesbians don't like men is because they absolutely vehemently irrationally hates them and once they find a "good man" lesbians too, will settle down and be a "normal" woman.

This sexism is also prevalent with Jin, he's written as a typical male harem protagonist, handsome and can't say no to these women that keeps throwing themselves at him. When he got punished, it is done severely.

However when it comes to Taylor, who arguably have done a worse crime, her punishment wasn't even formal, and although in reality it would've been an extremely cruel and inhumane punishment which FL have actually said herself, the MC shrugs it off, and Author used the 'she's happy now' and didn't suffer shit.

This one will be... fun. Ultimately this is the reason I dropped this story. I don't mind R*pe in my story so long as the Author is fully conscious on the severity of what r*pe is or when it's done in a CNC (Consent No Consent) manner when it's in smut, which is what I thought the tag for this one is for, but apparently no.

It is actual r*pe.

The way MC retaliated Taylor was by drugging her and Raul, another suitor of FL (WHICH MIND YOU HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS BRO JUST GOT CAUGHT UP) and have the now drugged Raul r*pe the drugged Taylor. That's right. The main character have basically made these two people r*pe each other. Just so you know, the Author KNOWS what a bad thing MC have done, the female lead even said "R*pe is too vulgar of a punishment"

But the author handled it with the MC saying "how dare you try to r*pe me, you should get r*ped" while drugging another unwilling man to do it. And when confronted by FL, he shrugged it off with a "You only want to save her because you guys were friends." and a "She deserves it" with an extra side of "Let's just have s*x, don't care about them."

So how is this handled? Taylor suddenly stops being lesbian, got pregnant, married Raul and wow, a happy marriage. And it left a HORRIBLE taste, as although I do believe that Taylor should be punished, I don't agree with the punishment given, because anyways! it wasn't even a punishment, instead she was given the easy way out. And the story prefers to heavily punish a Duke who leaked the information to Taylor more severely than Taylor (who did the crime) so that she can take that title to give it to MC so they can get married.

she drains MC almost every day