The author made characters one dimentionally, bad guy will acts evil without actual reason. Good guys are symphatethic towards the MC but all of them are terribly incompetent despite their stated skills or status. The MC herself is a dense white lotus rarely found in Japanese series, she is so naive that she even protected the people who tortured her out of compassion. The male lead is abruptly completely gone out of the picture after a certain event in the novel, he's a damned dragon which is an existance close to be a god but because the author wanted to show the MC struggling, she written him out for more than 50 chapters.
The politicking is plain boring and dumb, there's no intelligent political battle. Unfortunately for 50 chapters while the male lead is gone, it's all about incompetently written politics.