More of a 3.5 (heavily influenced by the later impressions and sweetness at the end).
Short piece, generally standard showbiz, but without an OP protagonist or ML. It starts off a little slow- the MC and ML have quite different outlooks towards life and society, and I actually found both to be annoying at first. But they grew on me and I was enjoying all the little exchanges in the last third of the novel. Novel has more potential than content- one of the few cases I think it could be fleshed out a tad more (specifically character interactions) but overall, the pacing and content is good for the length.
this thing was only 51 chapters long but at the same time, i wanted it to be over fast. the first half of the book really dragged for me and i swore i was only going to rate it 2 stars.
the latter half was more enjoyable, but it is a showbiz novel, after all. i'm not too big of a fan on showbiz overall so it's hard for me to really enjoy them a lot of the time.
this one is getting a 2.5 from me, but i rated up here.