For context, the current rating a/o writing is 2.7/5.0 @24 reviews (10 out of 24 reviews are 1.0).

So, this is a pretty standard OP MC possession harem story. I think that it's executed more or less fine. So, that begs the question: why is this so poorly rated (aside from it's status as basically a carbon copy of other works in the genre) ?

I believe the best answer is this: the payoff of the hook hasn't happened. There is basically no resemblance between the actual story and the idea of... more>> the story transmitted via the description and the title. There has been exactly one (1) mention of the so-called "su*cide note" in the entire story so far, in the prologue. And, from the general tone of the work, the FL referred to in the title and description is somewhat close to the MC (you might be able to argue about whether the MC views it that way, but I won't go into that discussion). This completely contradicts the tone that the aforementioned title and description express.

Now, in some other works this can be excused with exceptional quality or uniqueness, but to be blunt, this has neither.

So, we are left with a story that doesn't resemble it's title or description and has no offsetting redeeming qualities. I believe this caused most readers to leave a poor review and move on, which I don't blame them for; even for me, I'm just reading it to pass the time. But, I personally don't believe that it deserves such a score, instead it probably deserves somewhere between a 3 and a 3.5.

Other than that, TL is fine; while DarkStar has some minor problems sometimes, with occasional major problems (see: all master of cyberpunk), on the whole their translations are well done.

I would say give it to chapter 10~16, and if you don't like it, drop it. <<less

So, going into this, I expected something decent. Not great, not terrible. The premise isn't anything new or special. I was going to read it whenever I was loading into another game, or just wanted to read something to pass the time.

In the end, what I received was an incredibly boring antagonist cult story wherein the MC is able to wave his hand and toss money at every problem because he knew some knowledge from his previous life. The title is misleading, as well as the description. I didn't see... more>> any mention of a su*cide or farewell note until the chapters in the 90s. And that's atrocious. For something which relies on storytelling, to not do anything with that for nearly 90 chapters is just outright false advertising.

The MC is the standard power fantasy self-insert—a rich heir from a powerful magical family, which of course means he’s forced to be “perfect” by his circumstances. So we get the usual: always calm, always smug, always ten steps ahead of everyone else because “he just is.” There’s no conflict. There’s no tension. He’s never wrong, never challenged, and never vulnerable. And the worst part? The story thinks this makes him interesting.

And don’t get me started on the heroine. She's so emotionally stunted it's painful to read. She acts more like a confused stray dog than a person, clinging to the MC in the most pathetic ways imaginable because she misinterprets what he wants. She is this close to full yandere, but the harem angle keeps pulling her back like some awful tug-of-war between character depth and marketability. It's not compelling—it's sad.

What makes this all worse is that the “school setting” could’ve been the grounding point. But no, instead it becomes another excuse to drop named characters in front of the MC to either get steamrolled by his intellect or fall in love with him. It’s like the author threw darts at a board labeled “standard tropes” and picked five to cram into every chapter.

I kept hoping it would turn around. I told myself, “Maybe once the su*cide note gets brought up, we’ll see some emotional payoff or introspection.” But by chapter 93, nothing. No weight, no change, not even a decent conversation. Just another empty promise in a long line of unfulfilled potential.

I really need to stop giving chances to school-setting webnovels. They always pretend to be about something real—grief, growth, regret—but they all end up being self-indulgent power fantasies dressed in pseudo-depth.

The only reason it's not a 1 star is because there was a point in which I actually found the heroine be adorable: when she first starts acting like a pet <<less