I do not enjoy the age gap between the MC and the ML. first of all, the MC often considers himself to be 16 years old (like his main body) but he.. doesn’t particularly act that part (ahem their s*xual activities r off the roof). SECOND, almost ALL the worlds had the MC be 16/17 while the ML is often an adult, like mid 20s plus. HOW HARD IS IT TO MAKE HIM 18. it is particularly alarming in the piano progidy arc.

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“Big sis huh, when are we getting married?” Zhou Yun Sheng stirred his congee, his attitude light and frank, like acknowledging the inevitable. Xue Lao Si choked on his mouthful of congee, almost coughing out his spleen. Just what I was thinking, is this two hearts beating as one? Xue Yan chuckled and pulled the boy in for a kiss, then said softly, “As soon as you turn eighteen.”“That’s still two years, so long.” Zhou Yun Sheng put down his spoon and sighed, provoking more laughter from Xue Yan, who pulled him into his arms for an embrace. ”

“When he turned eighteen, he would marry him, and hand him half of Xue Clan. Thinking of this, Xue Yan exposed a gentle smile, making Xue Lao Si choke on his food in fright.”

LIKE DOES THIS NOT CONCERN YOU 😕 the age gap has long bothered me but I enjoyed the romance if u disregard the ages (PLS DO NOTE THAT I DO NOOOOOT CONDONE THIS IRL. I may enjoy 188 novels, dark content, etc. but I do not condone this whatsoever irl) so I pushed through and tried to turn a blind eye (again, I will never do this irl). it helped that aside from the piano prodigy arc, the MCs age isn’t frequently brought up and made the center of his character, iygm. like smtimes, u’d just forget that he’s supposed to be 16 or 17 or smth.

also I dont really like how the main insult for some of the characters is that they sleep around or that their life went to sh*t and they started sleeping around, I cant put into words why but it just kinda throws me off a little.. this doesn’t apply to the arcs where the character is cheating btw like the emperor arc BUT I dont like how the ppl who papapa the character being dubbed as a “slut” is blaming the character... like girl u’re both at fault..

on the bright side, I like ivana a lot and I like some of the author’s perspective on women. I LIKED MENG YAN TOO BUT HE JUST GOT THROWN ASIDE IM SO SAD.

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The author must have Daddy issues, what with the main character being a minor over and over again with the love interest being much older. There’s an obvious power imbalance, but the MC at the very beginning has his smarts and spiritual power to balance that I, balance, which tends to work... Until suddenly the MC has to share his powers with the ML and alll of a sudden the MC is powerless against him now. I got so pissed when a borderline/not-borderline r*pe scene occurs in the fourth chapter, and the MC cannot push away bc his spiritual energy was taken away from him and given to the ML, like??? I have a lot of issues with the fourth world other than this mind you. Withholding his paycheck so that the MC will be forced to have s*x with the ML, and not even being regretful about it after falling in love? Somehow I find that worse than simply making it happen. Ew.

Also, the MC being able to miraculously hack his way into solving everything is boring. This is less of an issue for me than almso anything else, but still bored me.

I totally wasted my time reading this novel. I dropped this novel in the start 11th arc (omegaverse stuff). The arc I hated the most was the Apocalypse zombie arc where MC is a doctor/scientist and ML was the protagonist of that world. To be honest I didn't really expect anything out of this arc because apocalypse is not my cup of tea but in the beginning of the arc I was a bit interested because of how ML stuck onto MC side as like a transparent soul that is like a ghost who watched over MC and saw his selfless, good side. I also was a bit hooked and really interested on how ML was reborn and he still has his memories of when he was still a ghost stuck onto MC side in the last life. I was expected something good happening but nope. MC and ML wasn't even good. They didn't even become friends and their relationships was hella complicated. To tell you the truth I HATE the ending so freaken bad. Like bruh that's the sh*tiest ending I ever read. Like bruh MC f*cken like idk I guess you can call it su*cide because like he wanted to leave the world since he thought that his lover, ML was not here and so he lost his reason living in this world buy yeah he f*cken died. But before he died ML was lucky enough to come in time and f*cken kiss him and let MC confirm that ML was actually his lover the whole f*cken time and he didn't even notice the slightest. I feel so outraged on how their relationships did not improved in the slightest over the two year time skip. Their relationship only moved a slightest when MC finally know that it was ML that was his lover. The ending was not it.

Anyway the arc I was most disappointed of was the western historical greek mythology. This arc was really interesting in the beginning because of the setting of gods, elves, beastman etc. It really hooked me in the beginning but I was disappointed in the end. I didn't really like how MC (Rational MC) keeps fighting/arguing with himself (Brainless MC) for ML and sh*t. Like brianless MC loves ML right but rational MC doesn't know that that was ML his lover. I just HATE it like what's the point of both different MC fighting for who is ML and who is not ML when it is ML. Like what the f*ck? The ending was terrible. I don't know why the f*ck the author would end it like that. Like ML just destroying all of the temple that were meant to worship him but only the kingdom that MC used to lived in was safe. Like what the f*ck. I'm glad that the b*tch protagonist got his retribution and stuff but like that ending wasn't even good.

Another arc I got uncomfortable, well mostly all of the arc waa uncomfortable for me. The second arc (Black Hearted Lotus) : please I do not like the ML. At first I thought that the ML was the three year old baby and I was the hell no that sh*t is not going to happen which I'm grateful that it didn't happen. But it went even worser, the ML in this arc is freaken the man who took the MC in his home and raised him for like idk a few years like what the f*ck? And that man is the protagonist of that world like author what the hell is going on with your head. I mean I don't mind if the ML is the protagonist of the world but what I do my mind is that f*cken age gap. Like bit*h I swear the age gap between ML and MC is probably freaken 15+ years apart like the hell. Also I don't like how the ML already got married and had a son already. I don't know how I feel about this but for right now I will not care about it and will ignore it.

And then he got a body in the real world for the ML's "soul". Like he just saw a hot bod in coma and decided to transfer the ML's sould into it. Wtf. That body's owner however prob wouldn't wake up and the MC and ML did take revenge on those who wronger the body's owner so it's be acceptable, but it's still so insensitive. It's like that last mini drop in the bucket that causes it to overflow.

The ML basically follows the MC around so it's strictly a 1v1. Both MC and ML are loyal to each other.

Since the MC is awesome, why not the ML? ML's background is big. So don't you worry that our Seme won't be able to stand toe to toe with our MC. Dammit I don't wanna spoil this major plot point. Just read, okay?

Okay I love main couple of FOD but I guess everyone can agree there was one character we all genuinely felt really bad for and that was Xue Zi Xian (14arc). He reprimanded for his sins in that arc so let's talk about the good or postive side of him.

The reason I felt connected to him was he has problems he was mysophobiac, had lack of empathy we don't know the reason behind but they are problems. He also needed help. It wasn't like he purposefully hated or wanted to kill ZYS. He don't know how to feel. And after reading the 14 Arc. Although we all knew and loved main cp we still felt bad for XZX. And then we were rewarded with a EXCLUSIVE side story of Xue Zi Xuan.

I'm really happy that he got HE. The ML of FOD himself took 2-3 arcs to finally get place is ZYS heart, from that we can comprehend for ZYS to fall in love but it happened in side story..

Seriously the love, the pampering, care XZX showed to ZYS is so full of warmth that I don't think I'll be ever to read arc 14 again because I can't see him sad anymore. So now I know I'll be never rereading arc 14.

Anyways I'm really happy that XZX got to live with ZYS. I'm really happy!!!