stupidest webtoon alive that wastes your time

Try Your throne

BLESS YOU, I'll read that asap.

I’ve read it already lol

Can you give me the link here, i could not find here

Its also called

I Want to Be You, Just For A Day Webtoon

She was never supposed to be a villainess though? I don't think that's a valid critique when neither the OG Robellia nor the new one were villains. The new Robellia tried the stereotypes of a villainess to get away from Alexandros but it was shown that she doesn't have the hearts to be fully evil unlike Aisha. If you want questionable FL I would suggest Your Throne or Sister I am the queen in this life. The villainess turns the clock and Beware of the villainess are also interesting as in the FL is the villainess simply by being a strong FL.

This is going to sound meta but I’m sure you’ll understand it: The narrative within the story for the FL didn’t frame the old Robellia as a villain but the narrative from the story we the audience are reading understand that this FL plans to subvert the in-story storyline by becoming a villainess. So I’m not criticizing the story within the story, because we haven’t read it.

I’m criticizing what we do read and how the narrative attempts to utilize what it means to be a villainess, fails to do so, and how that is a microcosm of a bigger issue within shoujo isekais centering villains. Robellia doesn’t have what it takes to be a villainess this is true but she also hasn’t done anything to be on the level of a villainess at all.

We all can see this, there’s a distinct difference between a character who is an antagonist and is a villain. It’s not above any of us that coincidently the female character who is a villainess along with an antagonist is the black haired girl, and she’s not a necessarily good one either. So we have a poorly written villainous who’s schemes barely make her worthy of an antagonist that they have to bring her father in and then we have a character who is not a villainous but attempts to be. The story makes that obvious as the plot goes on but my opinion is that if they dropped the villainess act completely and having the FL give up on that veneer that would actually be better character progression for her. Even before that, her attempts at being a villainous are poorly diluted to me and that’s a frustration that is directed at this manhwa but is actually addressing how this is a common trend in a lot of shoujo isekais. Imagine if the FL was a good person but in order to drive her partner away she had to become a villainess, she had to do actually terrible things to get him away from her. Not just attacking people who already deserve it but people that would make her feel morally compromised in doing so? So then there’s an inner conflict within her feeling guilt for her actions but having to decide more often what would free her from the clutches of her husband?

Unfortunately, this manhwa is not looking to do that because that’s not the type of story it wants to tell. It’s why for all these building blocks and potential concepts, it’s quite elementary for how it tackles its subjects. The king could’ve continued to be truly tyrannical, his insistence to keep Robellia in this relationship could turn abusive and suffocating— giving us readers an understanding of her urgency to leave, the black-haired girl could’ve been smarter.. maybe taking each of her failures against the FL as a lesson where she comes back around smarter more keen and diligent. If Robellia is hard-working, then she becomes a workaholic. These are subtle but effective ways of building each character to help or block the FL in her goal, none of them happen because that’s just not the type of story being told.


Which is okay, to each their own, but unfortunately that just makes it feel like wasted potential to me.

Also, I have read all the manhwa you’ve recommended I don’t think Beware of the villainess is what I’m aiming for. It’s not about being strong, it’s about being morally grey or black— again someone like Cersei.

You are absolutely right. TBH I'm just rage reading this at this point when I realised the ML is the emperor. I never really expected her to go through with the villainess act but now that that's gone, all the faults in the other characters are showing. The antagonist not being a competent villain, her falling in love for a man she knows is freaking abusive. It's kinda disappointing when her character started out strong. Specially when she doesn't even get a reason for dropping the act. She just forgets about it and this just adds to this story feeling like all the others which is a shame since it had potential

Oh I see. I suggested "Beware if the villainess" because she's a villain simply for not taking shit from anyone and being her own person. Obviously that's not a villain, but for shoujo standards, she totally would be. It's kinda hard to find FL committed to being morally grey. The only to examples I can think of are Your Throne and Sister I'm the queen in this life. I thought "My nemesis" and "Wished you were dead" would have given me a good grey FL but it wasn't meant to be :/

Yeah, I agree! There’s so much potential it feels like they underplayed it? I feel like maybe because the rating is pretty low that’s why the story feels shallow? Maybe if this story was 19+ it would be a lot more grittier and challenging? I also agree, I wasn’t into the Emperor being the ML but I thought they could maybe do something interesting with that but it’s dragging too much and there’s no appeal in it in my opinion. I also binged read in a couple days so my review was a bit of a vent rant I apologize!

I agree and I’ve read all of those! I really hope something comes a long because I think the genre can get quite stale when there’s not much changing. Also, this might be my own opinion but I think the quality of the art for this manhwa declined as I kept reading…. but maybe I’m being too bitter and hateful? I don’t know, disappointed either way!