Please spoil me a little here.
I just started reading this, I'm like at chapter 4 and pulled the emergency brakes when I read what is def not gonna be a love interest (sarcasm) say "she reminds me of *her".
I'm very jaded when it comes to a lot of romance reincarnation tropes so please tell me how hard this one is commiting to the theatrics instead of trying to be vaguely original or at least well written-
from what I’ve heard other people who read the novel say was that there is romance but it’s not the main focus of the story. currently at chapter 30, we had no interactions with that guy or other guys so far
but apparently there is so keep that in mind
thanks, I meant more so of like the usual reincarnation into another body tropes. Like, she's split between her old and new life, and struggling with the burden of her revenge against the people she learnt to love in this new life. How coincidentally everyone in her old life eventually meets her and thinks "damn wow, she's just like that woman" and so on. Whether that is done at all, and done well if yes.
This would be so much better if it didn't insist on using and abusing the "surprise, the villain is actually beloved by many" trope.
The brother's dialogue must be mistranslated or smth. There is one pov of his where he's being way too incesty with his affection - at least I hope it is a mistranslation. The conspiracy guy too is over the top, like why does everything have to boil down to the bare bones that is Isabelle being so lovable, actually, but nobody tells her.
It just invalidates the og Isabelle, yk what I mean? The manga established well how much of a loss it is, the tragedy of too little too late and what not, but at the same time is getting caught up in the trope and overstaying its welcome.
This does have a good twist or two though, and I enjoyed the yearning. I hope they do something interesting with the crown prince.
holy melons, homegirl has a whole titanium spine or smth
Let's hope this won't commit to the torture of becoming a 200+ chapter long, drawn out essay about how special FL is while it constantly throws her into random ass side quests like becoming a popstar.
This looks so promising, PLEASE do not sin...
I agree lady baby was something else, even when marinating it, that shit was just too long and pointless.
It started off so good too, before we lost her in the trenches
yo didn't ppl say that the 3rd arc wont be in the manhwa?
That crusty duke is gonna see the Emperor and clean shaven ML side by side one day, play spot the difference, and have one hell of a bad day
Who tf cares who she ends up fucking, I'm more interested in what is going on with FL. Honestly, it's getting more obvious already - and I'll lowkey be dissapointed if that heart she spoke of is not her true dragonesque ancient demon body buried beneath the territory which actively possesses red Hailey's body.
no genuinely like the romance is the least of my concerns. theres some crazy and interesting stuff that happened and will probably happen, so ofc I’m still reading
I'm team Gil. Oscar just seems like your basic prince/knight in shining armor type and has little to no flavor. He barely matters in the story, and is nowhere near as close to Cecilia as Gilbert.
My guy… they are literally raised as siblings. Literally anyone else is better than Gil
OMG REALLY? I DIDNT KNOW THAT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ENLIGHTENING ME WITH THIS UNEXPECTED NEWS.
Fr though, idgaf? Clearly he doesn't care either, and it's not like it matters that much since they're not blood related and apparently their parents don't care either since they basically gave the guy permission to snatch her from the prince.
I also used to be very up the ass about "omg they're siblings ew", but this is a fictional story and it's not like I'll go make out with my sister just bc I ship them, so really why does it matter objectively speaking? I find him more appealing BECAUSE of the taboos and how much more complicated their feelings have to be.
You can have a different opinion and find it disgusting, idc.
Thats okay, sure its fiction but still supporting something like that is crazy. Also, Gil literally sucks he hasnt done anything for the MC besides be a lil bitch and get jealous over oscar and the other male leads. Sure their relationship is “complicated” but they dont give any valid reason for why Gil has romantic feelings for Cecilia besides the fact that she is who she is. Like??? Theres literally nothing to root for there. Idk you do you tho….
Wdym supporting? Brother, these are fictional people, they are not about to jump out into the real world so I can ring the wedding bells for them?? Let that shit be problematic.
This is why it's a matter of taste. Like wdym nothing? She trusts him enough to vent out all her frustrations and tell him the truth on almost everything. She was by his side, pulled him out of his depression and basically made him a better person. I think that's more than valid lmao. It's not any better or worse than Oscar who hung onto that one moment where FL fed him like a decade+ ago to sustain his affection.
THE REASON SHE TELLS GIL STUFF IS BECAUSE THEY ARE SIBLINGS BRO!!! LITERALLY FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THE STORY SHE IS CONFUSED BEING LIKE OH LIKE HES MY BROTHER YEAH I LOVE HIM LIKE COME ON. Also again w the fiction, i get it but even if they arent rated by blood, incest is still incest, and the fact her parents support it doesnt make it any better or any lesser of what the situation is. I also wish that oscar was written better because I do think its crazy how he be thinking about that moment but he wasn’t “in love” with cecelia just because of that. He wasn’t willing to annul their engagement if she wanted to, and when he started falling for cecil and then connected the dots it makes way more sense. Gil just knows everything because he is her brother!!! Sure, she pulled him out of a dark time but it did NOT have to turn into that! Like idk if you got any siblings but sharing stuff with people you trust is normal and shouldnt be associated with romantic infatuation.
I agree that sharing stuff doesn't have to be romantic, but the manga made it very not-platonic on Gil's part, and so you see him squirming to put her feelings first but at the same time he's so down bad that he can barely manage to keep the appropriate distance, that's what makes him more attractive to me than Oscar.
At the end of the day this story is good but not anything worth subjecting some type of be-better moralities to because not every story will care for it nor analyse its own content this critically. Incest is bad, but regardless of that the creator made an ending for Gil (as well as Oscar).
I wish there was more gray nuance between these black and white characters. Everything Tia does is portrayed as this kind act when in reality most of her thoughts are calculative and she's all about making profit and collecting power. Everyone on her side is a saint, meanwhile everything outside of her circle is the ogre emoji in a nutshell. People been giving it too much credit just bc the art is pretty.
I think the advantage tia has, is her ability to go back in the past. Not only that, I believe she is a smart girl and as you said calculative. She’s more like a mary sue but I notice that she also has her own hardships as well. She is also a business woman.
Her grandpa at the beginning, didn’t dote on her and even declared her as an illegitimate child of their household. Ngl, He is the reason why Tia received harsh treatments. Because he didn’t declare Tia as a legitimate Lombardi. Tia has to work her ass off to claim the rights of being a lombardi. She just countered her enemies because she knew the future and she prepared so well for that.
I would be frustrated if she acted like other MCs who also returned from the past but still dumb.
The annoying thing is her “being a lombardi” shit. She can be anything more than a “lombardi”. I don’t know why she kept on glorifying her grandfather when in the past he neglected her. The only thing he did for Florentia was in his deathbed, he just apologized and regret then die. The oldman didn’t even prepare anything for her.
I agree the grandpa is treated like this big man that built a legacy, meanwhile his children are all messed up. He let Tias dad be bullied and married the rest off to untrustworthy people. And we never actually see what makes him so competent, he just throws the Lombardi name around and aura farms on vibes. It's giving Elon Musk.
And I understand that ofc she's bound to avoid many mistakes and be OP because she went back in time, but why are we pretending like she's so good and pure? Thats my issue.
She went to the palace, way back when, and was planning to take advantage of an abused child. She approached many people who were down on their luck for her own sake, but the narrative ignores that and just focuses on the good she did regardless of this darker mindset. Throw some shade on her ffs, she's already op, let her be 3D.
Yea i 100% agree
This story does its 9/5 and does a good job for being in the niche that it is but there's not much beyond that if you ask me. Put aside how clearly the manhwa had to trim a lot of fat and skip scenes from the novel (havent read it, its just that obvious).
It's a power fantasy, and pretends like it's trying to liberate FL while in reality she's in the palm of ML's hand basically the whole time. Like, we're not really trying to deal with the implications of that, and just indulging in the power fantasy of having this OP god-like Ken doll be down bad for her while outrizzing all her other men. It's a bit of a shame imo, but as I said it is what it is. It accomplishes what it's trying to achieve.
There are also some inconsistencies that come about from the manhwa rushing so much, especially at the end. The final happy end doesn't feel as satisfying bc of it and leaves some questions.
Like why was the demon set free to begin with? If both his halves were sealed, how come he was able to do the whole monster under the bed thing? What happened to the egg? Lowkey I was thinking FL would adopt the child, and do her best to raise them well as an act of absolution but also a final vengeance where she's responsible for the last remnant of her nemisis, and make them a good person despite how cursed their origins are.
There is also so little about ML's life and what he really went through, which doesn't help the op ken doll accusations lmao. Also, also don't understand how the green tea bitch was so convinced that her child would get 3 wishes too which she could just hijack or smth???
Anyway, you get the gist.