I might've had too high of an expectation going in considering it has decent ratings, but like the guy above me pointed out, shouldn't his mother be decently powerful considering her title, especially as the "poison" prefix would denote that she is at least proficient in the ways of her clan? Even if it was only for her looks, it seems a bit cheap to just have this "super powerful evil guy" take a fancy to her and cause everything and die in the first half of the chapter to set up his oh-so-sad backstory. I'm dropping this, but uh, let me know if it gets less predictably generic, cheesy, and unfortunately laking in satisfying logical progression in the later chapters. If you want, i guess.