It’s an okay read if you want a story of revenge and to pass the time, although they do speedrun events close to the end. The focus is more focused on revenge than romance fantasy, although you could say it's revenge in repentance towards a loved one. The romance is pretty lackluster since FL remains duly devoted to ML, who shows up so late and follows her around like a lost chick to help her when needed.
Besides the revenge, I do like that there is a reason why the royal children have red eyes instead of them just having it for aesthetics.
Her relationship with her half-sister is kinda awkward. They're not super close, and FL's revenge is towards their brother and father. Remi is interested in FL (about adding her to her dollhouse due to her unique appearance) and is willing to listen to her words. She also chooses to trust and follow FL after seeing what CP did to their mother and assumes she's not safe from him. She doesn’t die in the end, and her dollhouse was destroyed, so idk if she continues her hobby or not…
Their familial relationship reminds me of “I Played the Role of the Adopted Daughter Too Well / The Unintentionally Ideal Adopted Daughter” except it’s a transmigrator who wants to unite a villainous family while FL wants to get revenge on select members.
FL doesn’t really have much thoughts or feelings towards Remi other than knowing how to handle her. She doesn’t agree with her hobbies, but doesn’t try to change her either. Remi decided to change to earn her sister’s affection.
The royal family’s abilities are fairly interesting. I saw someone say that the prince’s blessing is sending her back in time, but I don’t think so. Given that time that he gave people exploding jewelry, and he loves using bombs and dynamite, I think his blessing has to do with explosions [is that you, Bakugo?! HAHA]. Also when Remi taunted him about his blessing not growing stronger and him having to use man-made items, I think this is the answer. (FL’s team used bombs too, but he specifically made explosive brooches)
I just realized they used bombs a lot in this story. The fantasy element is only for the leads…
And now to rant about the plot:
Is it really a common troupe for ML to make a great sacrifice for MC so she gets a second chance? But lucky for him, she has an unforgettable love for him, so third story's the charm I guess. Pitiful second ML. I would’ve prefered if he didn’t catch feelings (or if he ended up with ML’s sister. Instead, she gets engaged with some random prince. And becomes the ruler after uniting the dukedom with the kingdom to create a new empire… wth for some reason I was expecting her to end up with her teacher)
But I'm glad that they don't get together because ick from mental age gap. They had siblings vibes
I get that the leads’ marriage was arranged and rocky from suffering under her brother's hellish reign, but I still blame ML for realizing his feelings way too late, Frieren-style. (Siri/Alexa, play A Thousand Years by JVKE, John Michael Howell, and ZVC)
Not that FL could be absolved of the blame either, but I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt since she felt guilty about what happened to his family, so confessing her feelings seemed like it would add more weight to his shoulders.
I don't like what they did with the divine blessing. I thought she gained a tolerance to poison after having it so many times (but to be fair there are different types), but they’re saying that she somehow got his blessing transferred to her so she doesn't suffer side effects from poison??
That doesn't make sense to me, because her body’s still weak and she had to take pain medication. Unless you’re telling me that’s from her overworking herself, smh.
Honestly, I still don’t know why she and ML went back in time. She thinks she went back in time because of the curse of killing her brother, but she really was forgotten by everyone except for ML. I thought ML did something, but even he doesn’t know (unless he lost his memory, but idk). I’d believe it if he used his divinity or something to turn back time from regret, but instead divinity is only for healing and strength…
I wanna either headcanon either that her gift was to go back in time, or maybe ML did something with his divinity to bring her back. Honestly, because canonically she has no gift, I wonder if she really is the king’s daughter or her mom was lucky to sleep with him to give her a life of royalty - not that it went well for her in the first life. Or maybe the paternity test confirmed it (which is usually fishy af).
Also, with the first prince and princess, I wonder if the king got jealous of his kids, so he didn’t care if they died, or if he accepted their deaths as part of a bloody battle for the throne. Still a terrible father.
Final irritations:
I think I've become desensitized to orphanages receiving help from FLs, because even though it was a good thing, it felt like a random action just to make her kindness shine.
Official localizers strike again, using modern terminology like "clout", "cooking" and "balls" ughhh
Arrows somehow working against men in armor... Also falling off a convenient cliff is too convenient, like twice. Not to mention splattering each other's homes with blood, and destroying them, Jeezus.
Not them taking advantage of the 7 year time skip to not show FL training to use a sword HAHA
ML just looks like an awkward big boy
Mild gripe but why was the Debutante ball different from coming of age?
They really do be living celebrity lifestyles - if you don't show your face to the public, you'll be forgotten. FL hides away for 7 years, they forgot her face. CP is confined for 3 years, oh wait there used to be a prince? So easy to play public opinion like a fiddle back and forth between the two sides, but also too real.
It’s an okay read if you want a story of revenge and to pass the time, although they do speedrun events close to the end. The focus is more focused on revenge than romance fantasy, although you could say it's revenge in repentance towards a loved one. The romance is pretty lackluster since FL remains duly devoted to ML, who shows up so late and follows her around like a lost chick to help her when needed.
Besides the revenge, I do like that there is a reason why the royal children have red eyes instead of them just having it for aesthetics.
Her relationship with her half-sister is kinda awkward. They're not super close, and FL's revenge is towards their brother and father. Remi is interested in FL (about adding her to her dollhouse due to her unique appearance) and is willing to listen to her words. She also chooses to trust and follow FL after seeing what CP did to their mother and assumes she's not safe from him. She doesn’t die in the end, and her dollhouse was destroyed, so idk if she continues her hobby or not…
Their familial relationship reminds me of “I Played the Role of the Adopted Daughter Too Well / The Unintentionally Ideal Adopted Daughter” except it’s a transmigrator who wants to unite a villainous family while FL wants to get revenge on select members.
FL doesn’t really have much thoughts or feelings towards Remi other than knowing how to handle her. She doesn’t agree with her hobbies, but doesn’t try to change her either. Remi decided to change to earn her sister’s affection.
The royal family’s abilities are fairly interesting. I saw someone say that the prince’s blessing is sending her back in time, but I don’t think so. Given that time that he gave people exploding jewelry, and he loves using bombs and dynamite, I think his blessing has to do with explosions [is that you, Bakugo?! HAHA]. Also when Remi taunted him about his blessing not growing stronger and him having to use man-made items, I think this is the answer. (FL’s team used bombs too, but he specifically made explosive brooches)
I just realized they used bombs a lot in this story. The fantasy element is only for the leads…
And now to rant about the plot:
Is it really a common troupe for ML to make a great sacrifice for MC so she gets a second chance? But lucky for him, she has an unforgettable love for him, so third story's the charm I guess.
Pitiful second ML. I would’ve prefered if he didn’t catch feelings (or if he ended up with ML’s sister. Instead, she gets engaged with some random prince. And becomes the ruler after uniting the dukedom with the kingdom to create a new empire… wth for some reason I was expecting her to end up with her teacher)
But I'm glad that they don't get together because ick from mental age gap. They had siblings vibes
I get that the leads’ marriage was arranged and rocky from suffering under her brother's hellish reign, but I still blame ML for realizing his feelings way too late, Frieren-style. (Siri/Alexa, play A Thousand Years by JVKE, John Michael Howell, and ZVC)
Not that FL could be absolved of the blame either, but I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt since she felt guilty about what happened to his family, so confessing her feelings seemed like it would add more weight to his shoulders.
I don't like what they did with the divine blessing. I thought she gained a tolerance to poison after having it so many times (but to be fair there are different types), but they’re saying that she somehow got his blessing transferred to her so she doesn't suffer side effects from poison??
That doesn't make sense to me, because her body’s still weak and she had to take pain medication. Unless you’re telling me that’s from her overworking herself, smh.
Honestly, I still don’t know why she and ML went back in time. She thinks she went back in time because of the curse of killing her brother, but she really was forgotten by everyone except for ML. I thought ML did something, but even he doesn’t know (unless he lost his memory, but idk). I’d believe it if he used his divinity or something to turn back time from regret, but instead divinity is only for healing and strength…
I wanna either headcanon either that her gift was to go back in time, or maybe ML did something with his divinity to bring her back. Honestly, because canonically she has no gift, I wonder if she really is the king’s daughter or her mom was lucky to sleep with him to give her a life of royalty - not that it went well for her in the first life. Or maybe the paternity test confirmed it (which is usually fishy af).
Also, with the first prince and princess, I wonder if the king got jealous of his kids, so he didn’t care if they died, or if he accepted their deaths as part of a bloody battle for the throne. Still a terrible father.
Final irritations:
I think I've become desensitized to orphanages receiving help from FLs, because even though it was a good thing, it felt like a random action just to make her kindness shine.
Official localizers strike again, using modern terminology like "clout", "cooking" and "balls" ughhh
Arrows somehow working against men in armor... Also falling off a convenient cliff is too convenient, like twice. Not to mention splattering each other's homes with blood, and destroying them, Jeezus.
Not them taking advantage of the 7 year time skip to not show FL training to use a sword HAHA
ML just looks like an awkward big boy
Mild gripe but why was the Debutante ball different from coming of age?
They really do be living celebrity lifestyles - if you don't show your face to the public, you'll be forgotten. FL hides away for 7 years, they forgot her face. CP is confined for 3 years, oh wait there used to be a prince? So easy to play public opinion like a fiddle back and forth between the two sides, but also too real.