In the first arc, the MC becomes a fashion designer as the original host wished. She made her studio in one month, opened with clothes ready in two, was immensely popular and everything sold out. She even already has clients lined up for her. Very soon after, she got invited (her family's connected) to a runway and practically designed and produced the clothes in a non-specified time, but it couldn't have been more than a week or two? And within half a year, though I think it's shorter in the novel, her brand is internationally recognized (because of that one runway show in the fashion capital) and she's a famous fashion designer.

Now, I realize the author wanted to get that part quickly over with and have the MC set up as a successful and famous woman, to have everyone praise her and badmouth her ex for dropping her and picking a common woman. But I was kinda taken out by how easily and quickly this went by.

Another point is how everyone has goodwill toward her, to a point that I'm not sure why it's getting mentioned. Let alone how the ML's parents like her immediately, there was a scene where she and the ML are having a group dinner, and some of the foreign models at that dinner like the ML so much, they confess to him, then he hints he likes MC, and the model who confessed says "MC's so good, I feel it's fine that I lost to her", something along those lines. And I'm like, 'Insecure much, Miss Author?' The scene was so weird and naive. It's just something that reminded me of the Mary Sue fanfics I'd read when I was a teen. I guess since I'm older, this kind of thing really jumps out at me and pokes me in the eyes. Maybe it's just my own problem.

In both arcs, the women who end up with the original host's crushes are nice and there's nothing wrong with them. No green tea b*tches, no fake white lotuses. They were weak and kinda s*upid, but not evil or scheming against the MC. So I thought, 'Hm, no women bashing for a change.' But since we need to compare our MC to them, and her married life to theirs, there was a bit in the final chapters of both arcs I've read, where it's mentioned that the other woman and the crush have a sickly (due to premature birth) or mentally deficient child, and then they get divorced for one reason or another. As a contrast, the MC and ML are happily married with healthy child/children. And I couldn't really comprehend the need to write it this way. It was obviously to set up a contrast, which, fine. But why compare even the babies? Kinda irked me. This is in the first two arcs, and I don't know whether this trend continues later on.

Now this is entirely up to personal taste. I got bored because there was no thrill at all. The MC dumps or puts the crush in the past and goes to the ML who pampers her to the heavens (she took her time in arc 1, but in arc 2, they were already a pair). The plot following is all about their daily life, their smut scenes and getting married, with some bumping into the ex-crush and his boo along the way. The MC had nothing to do - no reversals, no revenge, lol. That's why the upstaging in the final chapters seemed so out of place to me. But also, I just get bored when there's nothing for the MC to fight for and achieve. It's basically just their love life, which other readers might actually find preferable.

Another point that bugged me personally, but may not be that big of an issue to others, is that MC inhabits these bodies, but the ML's originally loved the original hosts. I would've preferred that MC finds her own ML who loves her for her, and not her in the role of the woman he already loved. But then it wouldn't be true to the novel's premise of dumping the male lead and getting with the second male lead.

I contemplated about giving 2 stars to this arc, because of the comparison between children of female lead and Male lead.

To go far as to make a child with cong**ital disease and blaming the mother for it, just to say female lead's children are better in health, is ultimate low for the author.

and not because they are the same person. Even if you have the same personality, with different memories/upbringing/background, you will not act identical in every situation. Unfortunately, the writing is so vapid that the MLs can be replaced by a squeegee and nobody would be able to tell the difference.

I don't think the ML's job was ever mentioned in the first novel other than being "one of top 3 bachelors in the capital" like wtf does that even mean?

2nd world, dude is an architect, does he have architecture books in their room? is their house design done well? how does that change the way he looks at the world? none of the above because he is about as interesting as a wet paper bag.

3rd world - acting, as a director, ML was hailed as some kind of great teacher mentor (none of those scenes were written by the author), all that was written was ML losing his temper and trying to fire an actresss. lol