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Aghhh I’m guessing this one was axed. It was quite good too ╥﹏╥

I’ll miss Sir Glanz…

Shaman Adachi Tohru

Anyways, this was a really nice read. My only gripe is some of the semantics surrounding bipolar disorder (as someone diagnosed w/ bipolar I), but no one has the same experience with these things, so it’s just a little nit-picky on my part. I don’t expect that aspect to be perfect unless the manhwa was super focused on it, which it wasn’t.

I really do like how things tied together in the end, and at most I feel awful for the vindication Sera had felt, but I also really enjoy how literally no one in this story is a perfect party or has minimal flaws. I think Jia is the closest thing to that by definition since she was not directly involved with the incidents that occurred prior to possessing Sera’s body. Give it a read!!

I’m not putting a spoiler on this because I think it’s important for people to not be discouraged by some of the immediate reviews left here. I was at first, which kinda made me put this one on the back burner for the longest time since I was under the impression there would be some sort of shabby storytelling or loose ends, but now I see that the interpretation on this one is infuriating in a way.

Femininity is only seen as being weak due to the restrictions that women have faced. People chose to rebel this solely due to that fact, which is why I thought I would take greater satisfaction in seeing the protagonist, born anew, become the same strong and guarded person she used to be. But there’s nothing wrong with a weakness like this, because that is just how flawed humans are. Not women, not men, but humans as a whole.

I find it funny how we’ve all separated ourselves even though we weren’t born that different. People tend to believe that we were created to differ one another by gender, but we as people aren’t even sure of our own origins. So at the end of the day, how can we be so sure that our roles have been set in stone? I think many others view blaming society to be flawed, or as if it’s a means to justify your own faults, but even if that were the case, there’s nothing wrong with pointing out obvious issues in this world.

At the end of the day, the very people who fuel everyday opinion were once, or still are, pressured by such standards. A refusal to realize it is still an acknowledgment of uncertainty.

It may sound really silly, but this story has made me realize a lot of things, and I tend to enjoy stories that invoke deeper thought, even if I’m usually hesitant to read them. I don’t like emotionally investing myself in things like this because I’m scared of change, and I’m also scared of my own acknowledgment. I tend to enjoy and laugh along at many things that are the detriment to myself and others, but we are all the furthest from being perfect, even if we strive for it.

To those who are also prone to escapism, which I’d assume lots of manhwa readers are, pleaseeeeeee give this story a chance. I don’t leave reviews on a lot of things (not unless I’m complaining abt smth LOLLL), and after this site erased my lists post-reset (or maintenance, whatever the hell happened), I started reading things I typically don’t find myself reading.

P.S, the reviews left on this site always infuriate the hell out of me as someone who has been on here for a long time, and other sites are no different. I’m going to bring this up because I think it’s relevant to the storytelling this one brings, but I enjoy a lot of action manhwa, which was what I mostly consumed in the past. Still do, but I just want to point out that there’s nothing wrong with criticizing things you enjoy. I always hated how women were depicted in many different stories, normalizing stereotypes and things that tend to drift us apart when everyone else is against us, but I always ignored it because I knew it was inevitable.

There’s not very many things you read that are perfect in your eyes without idealization or romanticization. I enjoy games of a similar genre that only contain or prioritize a male protagonist and perspective because I am already fully aware that people as a whole are not entirely interested in everything a woman may experience. I don’t think this mindset is bad however, because at the end of the day, the hardships that many women face are not as interesting in comparison to a man simply due to our own weaknesses that are always highlighted without fail.

If a female protagonist is too weak or has many weaknesses, they will usually have this aspect embraced, but not without complaint or negativity. If a female protagonist is too strong, she is either taking the male role and doing a worse job at it, or she is too foolhardy and thus hated for it. And even then, oftentimes they will create a mix of both. A feminine lady with an extreme tomboyish side that creates an appeal, or a woman who is largely strengthened by hardship, yet flustered by the idea of recognition or affection.

There’s never room for objective nuance in narration. Not like this. At the end of reading, I was actually pretty disappointed with how I initially expected her to pick up the sword once more. Not for the sake of her own revenge, but for her to properly contradict the very same things we face each day. I actually couldn’t really believe I had grown impatient with this story when it had started building towards the same path it started out on when Estelle became Lucifela.

Unfortunately, the sight of female protagonists in isekai changing drastically from their former self is appealing in the sense that it breaks the mold others have created for us. Stories that don’t take place in the modern world tend to villainize women who adapt to their surroundings instead of altering them.

At the end of the day, every woman has faced strife that chastises them for how they were born. It’s just that some act out, and some don’t. Is it not basic psychology to recognize that every person reacts and behaves in different ways? This is a core foundation to being a human being instead of a machine, and I hate, HATE how it takes the perspectives of others, fiction or not, to realize this. Everything is a poison, and the strife of people that have gone undocumented does not erase the possibility that these ideas and concepts told in tall tales can indeed become a reality.

I definitely typed out a book, but if you ended up reading this entire thing, thank you! And yes, I was a little angry at the fact that people were leaving reviews about not seeing the main couple’s children rather than the overarching plot and message, amongst some other complaints here and there, but that in itself is also severely hypocritical of me seeing as I both consume and praise content I don’t entirely agree with.

I just find it kinda funny that for a story addressing gender roles and powerlessness, as well as the acceptance for love and how we, as flawed people, are viable for redemption, there’s comments about unseen babies that didn’t contribute to the main aspect of it all whatsoever. But I do understand the joy in witnessing two beloved main characters experiencing a happy life.

Uhhhh TLDR… GIVE THIS A READ!!! PLEASESEEEEEE GIVE IT A CHANCE!!!! I will love you for eternity if you do…

I can definitely agree with Herman hate. However, I think it’s pretty interesting given his role in this manhwa, and I like reading all of the comments left solely because of this.

I believe that Herman’s perspective was birthed from naïveté, but in a sense I’m glad he turned out that way for the narration and its ending. I’m pretty fond of the idea that Evaldina wasn’t alone until the end (even IF she was, in a sense, pitied and forgiven by others, she was wanted by a man who didn’t particularly care for her wrongdoings), and I would also like to say that the favorability garnered towards her due to her background and reason for vengeance is why I love this story so much.

Herman was more akin to a blind faith actor, but instead of this being enforced upon him, he was instead fully accepting of this fact. The pain he brought to the FL, whom was obviously written more emotionally in-depth than any other character seeing as she’s the protagonist, as well as the downfall and suffering of his own family surmounting as the result of his love for another was his circumstantial downfall. At the end of this read, I did entertain the thought of how widely accepted something like this might’ve been had he vied for our primary protagonist Regina instead of the antagonist Evaldina. But there’s no definite conclusion to something like this since that was not the outcome, so it’s just food for thought. I do firmly believe that others would see it in a more romantic light for a multitude of reasons.

I think on my initial read (a long time ago mind you, so I don’t really recall that well) I was really scared that the female antagonist was going to have a similarly styled rhetoric that other manhwa/manga carry. Something along the lines of hardly having deep motivation aside from surface level jealousy and harsh misunderstandings because… she’s a woman, I guess. I was thrilled to find out this was not the case.

Anyways, this is all just to jot my own thoughts down at the end of this. I loovvveeeee complex stories that consider all sides and character mindsets, and as I do personally feel like the ending could have been a smidge rushed (despite how worn down Evaldina was), I’m extremely satisfied with how this turned out. I’m definitely going to miss this art style oh my god… ლ(´ڡ`ლ)

Tfw you relate to the FL but everyone is shitting on her in the comments LOLLLL. Granted, it is toxic with the way she behaves, but after her FIRST relationship being trash? That could quite possibly be the norm for her.

I don’t know, we’ll see. I hate plots that dive into cheating, be it emotional or physical, but I don’t think this is going to be a healthy manhwa nonetheless. I just think that a lot of readers are so quick to blame the female characters over this stuff. Like yeah, let’s simp for the ex-bf while also blaming FL for the way she turned out type shit.