Liam, the MC, always finds himself in a situation where he's in the underdog position or in a situation where he needs a convenient opportunity to make use of, so that he can overcome the odds. This is all thanks to a 'helpful' Guide providing support, despite the Guide hoping for the opposite to happen. Liam then goes on to procure a lot of gains that help him increase his own strength and influence.

Another one would be that he attempts to act as an evil lord that selfishly indulges himself on the suffering of his people, but all his efforts to do so leads to the opposite effect. His people are becoming more prosperous with his every action and he's being hailed as a hero in his country due to his noble actions. Mostly due to him being unable to stand witnessing evil because in his past life he was often taken advantage of, despite wanting to be evil himself.

honestly I started reading this with a lot of hope. I liked the author's other works. I enjoyed reading dragoon, sevens, and otome mob, and had I hoped I would enjoy this in the same level as those other works. Sadly I didn't.

The premise was interesting and the story did build up nicely, but it has a lot of problems which really made it hard for me to continue reading it.

To be able to identify the problems I compared this with the author's past work and other 'misunderstanding' stories. And after comparing it, it became clear how this particular story fell short.

The story this time took place in a scifi fantasy type world. The setting reminds me of his past work which in part because all the protagonists are of noble descent with overwhelming power to take on an unjust world or something along those lines.

but alas, this is not sevens nor dragoon nor is it otome mob.

Unlike sevens and dragoon the MC, Liam, did not go through much struggles to achieve his power, this made his power feels inconsequential. Neither did his power come from a comical source related to an established plot like in otomege mob.

What's more painful is the one dimensional interaction between him, his power, and his enemies. All interaction he did with his enemies could usually be easily solved by his brute force without much consequences.

Liam felt very one dimensional and his powers felt undeserving. He did not show much vulnerability in the face of adversity, a vulnerability that he would then need to work on to overcome his struggles.

As someone would say, the plot armor is thicc in this one, and I would argue this sense of deus ex machina which keeps happening a lot might be an indicator of lazy writing; this made the power balance in the story felt off.

The characters are not loveable. Yes, you might argue some of them are loveable, I like brian, I like Rosetta, but that's it. Liam does not seem to be very consistent with his dream and his motive sometimes may come in to question, while his friends and allies felt unimportant to the character's development and the story as a whole which made them very forgettable.

His enemies would boil down to be the same with each other, with each addition they did not bring anything new to the table, basically just the same set of skills but stronger or bigger. Compared to the enemies in otome mob, which gives new powers and new ways to interact with the main character, the enemies here feels really boring and forgettable.

In my opinion as a misunderstandings story protagonist Liam feels too bland and normal. The story progression also felt too normal and too predictable to be a misunderstandings type of story. The misunderstandings felt forced and it feels to be just a way to add flavor text Liam's personality.

Compared to stories like Overlord or the eminence in shadow, the way the misunderstandings play about felt repetitive as a joke and unimportant to the story.

a lot of these might come down to pet peeves, but a lot of it may stack up really quickly.

For instance, he accepts bribes in gold, but in this universe gold isnt super valuable. So he is helping people out for a cheap price.

At one point his people start protesting, and they get it into their heads that a protest is basically a festival, so even though they are protesting, they are still having fun. Liam has a mini-freakout wondering why his subjects are so dumb.