My boy Sonatek deserved better. Justice for my son!
Jokes aside, it wasn't terrible per se, I just never resonated with a villain more. The FL's mom was the whole problem behind the story. It was an interesting premise in theory. An author becomes part of her own story before it even starts, falls in love with the people and world there and wants to stay. She decides to change the plot in order to stay and ends up tangling up the plot instead.
BUT YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT THE ONLY WAY SHE COULD THINK OF STAYING WAS TO KILL HER OWN CHILD??? TF??
Nah, Sonatek's crash out was valid. I didn't agree with all of his logic but he had every reason to be pissed. She changed the original story, trapping dozens if not hundreds of people in a world they didn't choose. And her choice to change the story meant that her kid would die in the future. You couldn't have chosen any other choice? "I'll just switch these two characters! Who cares which one dies?" You could have added a character. You could have changed the personality of one of the MCs. Added a wild card to the story. There were so many other ways to do it without screwing over your literal future child for your current happiness.
And Sonatek was absolutely right to be furious and want her to suffer for her choices. She didn't just screw him over, she screwed everyone looking for a way back over. He didn't sell her out until the very end. He might have only done it to continue making her suffer but he didn't tell the others that she changed the story. He did everything he did in secret. He kept coming to her, too, asking her to set things right. All she had to do was work together to fix things with him or apologize. She never apologized to him directly. She only admits she was greedy and apologized to her daughter AFTER he's dead. He deserved so much better. My poor son. And in the end, SHE'S REWARDED for it. Nah. The villain was her all along and she got a happy ending. Justice for my son. 6/10 only for the art and the Duke's yearning.
I wish horrible things on the so called brother. May Damian never know peace. May he know that in later chapters, when his little sister dies, he was partially responsible. May none of his children ever respect or care for him. May the whole world treat him like a coward. Generational beef with this character. He is unredeemable.
The first 40 chapters are decent. They aren't spectacular or anything but they're entertaining enough. This is definitely a "turn your brain off" kind of manga.
That said, considering the pace of the first 40+ chapters, they really dragged out the next 60+ chapters unnecessarily. I ended up skimming through so many chapters or reading the first few pages and skipping to the next chapter. I still understood the majority of it, missing plot only once. Even then, I didn't care enough to go back and reread the one chapter I skipped.
This isn't the kind of manga I need to rant about. I'm glad it's over. It was a slog to get through.I have vastly different opinions from everyone else who seems to have read it. I hated the dragon character, was indifferent to the smut, and generally thought it was poorly written but passable.
If you want a much better version of almost the exact same story, Marriage of Convenience. The only difference is that there's no toxic ex but there is a crazy prince. Otherwise, it's almost exactly the same, point for point.
Woman goes back in time, does everything she can to change the future, slowly builds a relationship with her husband while improving the territory, improves the lives of people in the territory, there's a tournament where they both seem to realize their feelings, there's a war, there's a pregnancy, yada yada. I enjoyed it greatly. This? This I'll check off my list with a note to never reread because it was painfully boring.
I agree with this comment. Got through ch 60 then dropped because the author couldn’t keep up with the plot and it was getting so boring with the misunderstandings and also her huge misunderstanding with her previous husband… like it’s all assumptions and her taking his knowledge exclusively with bad excuses. The timing is too perfect for all the incidents. Dropped from boredom and it’s rare I do that.
I'm half way through the chapter and what do you mean, exchange letters???? A small plot point already established is that SHE CANNOT READ OR WRITE. That she had no time to learn before they had to move. And that the rest of the refugees were like her, too. Why do you keep repeating "letters" like it means anything in this context????? I'm sure they just conveniently forgot all about this established plot so far but it's bothering me.











This is a terrible story but I've finished all my train wreck manga so I guess adding one to the pile wouldn't hurt