I like the idea of a ML with a past to be discovered, but the way his past is revealed isn't very interesting. His past is often revealed as convenient moments of information told to us instead of shown. This isn't a novel, it is ok to show the reader in a flashback what happened. Instead we just get lots of internal monologue from the ML about his past.There is nothing wrong with internal monologues, but the ML is so 1-diaminsional that it makes me the reader wish the author would use a flashback to help flush out what the characters had to endure during the rebellion. Simply saying "the rebellion was terrible" doesn't really help readers fully capture how bad the rebellion actually was.

Speaking of 1-diamionsional characters, the ML and FL relationship is...It feels artificial. Yes I know this is a fiction, but it feels more like two 5 year olds playing house and acting how they think a husband and wife should act, instead of an actual fictional relationship between two adults. I don't enjoy seeing them together at all and found myself skipping past their scenes.

Overall the story has the elements to be an ok funny story that doesn't take itself to serious, but the poor way of telling the story, the lack of character depth and the artificial relationship of the FL and ML made it hard for me to enjoy this story.

The premise is okay as far as it goes, but the author and artist aren't skilled enough to pull it off well. Besides some bland art with insufficiently varied facial expressions, the plot also has some bizarre aspects: the rebels are evil (quite possibly due to mandated propaganda); the empress doesn't remotely care about her soldiers and officials dying all the time; and she supposedly works as the empress in the palace, but lives with the MC, and yet the MC doesn't even speculate about his wife's job; etc.

EDIT: Also, it takes forever until the reveal finally happens, and then it's ridiculously underwhelming.

... Last updated on January 20th, 2022, 2:42am

I feel too cringed reading this so I stopped. It feel too fake lol.