@Serathe7
It is apparently.
The artist is just cutting a bunch of stuff based on previous comments.
From reading, the relationship feels so forced that its terrible.
The "antagonist" is no threat, the guy she is after is clearly(Strangely enough from the continuous skips) in love with another; our Mc for whatever reason is breaking a sweat even though he has shown a clear disinterest.
From ch1-4, this does not even do the job of advertisement for the novel and puts bad tropes in over proper pacing and development.
I barely know who is who just from looking, I have seen bad Chinese comics with better pacing than this.