After Leaving the Team, the Villainous Young Lady Became Everyone’s White Moonlight

This novel was a good example of AI slop.

The beginning was pretty good, at least before the academy arc. The story’s premise of betrayal and regret was well-presented.

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For example, how the party members regretted their decision to expel FMC (the female protagonist), which made them a useless party. Also, how FMC’s mother cried and begged FMC to return after regretting expelling FMC.

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But everything changed when the author was indicated to have written the narrative with the help of AI. FMC’s characterization became inconsistent.

I don’t even know what FMC’s real personality is like? Because she can suddenly be kind, then suddenly become cruel, then suddenly become stupid and arrogant, then become humble.

I don’t hate selfish characters, but I can’t tolerate inconsistent characters. AI has clearly ruined FMC’s characterization by writing a haphazard, incoherent narrative.

Moreover, like most web novel series, this story also suffers from a loss of direction syndrome. The plot spreads everywhere. Initially, FMC just wanted to live a peaceful life, but she ended up getting involved in conflicts like academy, dungeons, and church conspiracies.

Even more ridiculous, she was dragged into it for no clear reason. Who would be so stupid as to get dragged into trouble and help the people who betrayed them? Yes, FMC did. She helped the party members grow stronger, she helped her apathetic teacher, she even got involved in a church conspiracy just to help the Pope’s granddaughter who originally wanted to punish FMC.

FMC is very stupid. The author patched up this plot hole in FMC’s motivation with a sentence “because the will of the world forced FMC to get involved.” That only worsened FMC’s characterization as a pawn, a slave, without agency.

Furthermore, I don’t like how the author feels pretentious, she criticizes isekai tropes as cliched trash for writing cliched plots. Ironically, the author herself wrote the cliched plots, she wrote a boring academy arc, she criticized the annoying political arc but wrote a disgusting church political arc instead. The author truly became the isekai writer she criticized. I don’t hate criticism, I hate authors who lack integrity.

Lastly, the author clearly has inadequate writing skills. The narrative style is so full of nonsense exposition that the author has to use the phrase “back to the topic” to bring the narrative back to the story after the nonsense.

The fights are terrible. The visuals are blurry, falling into the empty space syndrome. Worse still, the author inserts a lot of nonsense exposition during the fight scenes, killing the tension.

In short, if you like isekai AI Slop, this might be a good novel for you.