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I barely finished reading this. The closer it got to the finale, the more boring it became.

If you came to read it for romance, you will be disappointed. If you came to read it for scheming and political intrigue, you will be disappointed. If you came to read it for interesting plot and characters, you will be disappointed.

If you came to read it just for the trope of reincarnation and ‘taking the male lead from the OG mc’ (which is so hard to fuck up), you will be disappointed.

This manhwa has so many problems and there are barely any positive things to say about it. There’s legit nothing good about this manhwa except for its gorgeous art style and hot characters.

The writing was so all over the place that I don’t even know where to begin, so I will try to start with its concept.

This is yet another manhwa that uses a ‘reincarnated into a book’ concept and does absolutely nothing with it. It’s only a tool to explain why the main character changes from villainess into this super smart, gentle yet manipulative person. However, the author truly took the most easy way and it came to bite them in the ass.

Kayena’s whole drive is to break free from her brother and get him on the throne despite how he treated her in the first life. Until he murders her babysitter that she has not met since she was a child in her first life. That’s when the author decided to deepen her character to show her struggles, how lonely she is, changes her motives… And it would’ve worked if it wasn’t a fucking reincarnation manhwa.

MC mentioned that in her second life her mom was a baker and she has no bad memories about that life. So where tf this whole agony over “everyone leaves me” coming from. The fact that she had a second life makes all of the current plot make no sense. I mean, author could’ve said that her second life was also miserable and how she had no one there either, but instead author tries their best to just make reader forget that she didn’t just transmigrated back in time, but had a second life and that this world is a book. Author did absolutely nothing with this idea and trope. Why even mention that she had a second life if it’s not relevant at all. It only fucks with the character, because she does not make any sense.

Don’t get me started on the characters. 99% of side characters’ personalities revolve around MC. And fuck most of the characters exist just to fucking exist. Wtf was up with the duke (white haired one, not ML)? Started writing him as this massive villain (who is obsessed with MC, of course) only to become completely irrelevant.

Talking about irrelevant: most of the characters in this manhwa. OG MC? Just there. Other servants that were getting built up for something more? Just there. Her little brother? Just there (they interacted TWICE in the whole manhwa and he is already willing to do anything for her). That blonde lady in waiting who was a sister to a guy who tried to become a minister? Why did she even exist. Why was she hired? She was just there and then disappeared. What was the point of that assassin whose sister MC saved wit h magic? Why even bother adding him?

Fuck. I just remembered the whole magician arc and why did that exist??? She goes to a magician (who ends up being obsessed with her), gets powers THAT SHE BASICALLY DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITH (all the things she did with her powers could’ve been done without them omg), introduced another villain (who becomes obsessed with her) that appeared twice and then immediately got locked up. All of this useless plot existed only to introduce angst of MC dying soon. But then the magician, that fell for her, sacrifices himself to give her a happy ending. How convenient. And fucking useless. Why the fuck did it even exist??? Why even introduce the brother????????? Why?????????

Romance in this manhwa is also ass. Male lead’s whole personality is just loving MC. He barely even appears, and when he does - MC pushes him away or avoids him. He is barely present or relevant. He legit is just THERE to exist. He barely helps her with anything, so when he is talking all big about protecting her and relying on him I was legit laughing. Like he is so useless. Just a pretty face to stare at. I, surprisingly, liked the brother (as a character, not romantic interest) and his dynamic with MC more than the male lead.

The whole plot with Regef is also stupid. They never explained why he was so cold to MC in their first life when the plot drives the point how codependent they both are with each other. They mentioned a ‘misunderstanding’ that drove them apart but what the fuck was the misunderstanding’???? Her falling for the duke while her brother was imprisoned? Him bringing her the head of his friend (or was it just a dream I don’t fucking know)???

God, this manhwa was just bad. I can keep going, but I don’t want to waste any more of my energy on this manhwa. It started interesting, but it’s just truly a nothing burger.

The only character that was interesting was Regef, but he has the misfortune of being in a hands of an author who just can’t write. It truly did not sit right with me how he is treated in the story. He is a victim of extreme child neglect and abuse. Doesn’t absolve him from all the shitty things he did, but Kayena (who was a villainess) gets to have a redemption, but he doesn’t? The fact that she sides with her father to take down Regef felt disgusting to me (spelling it out to some people: I’m criticising author’s choice to write it like this, not character’s decisions). They are both children of abuse, so instead of coming together to take down this bastard, author pins Kayena and their abuser against the biggest victim of it all. And in the end, Regef still protected her from the king, while she was none the wiser that he was planning on getting rid of her later.

I legit can’t hate him. He is the only interesting and the most consistent character of this whole manhwa. Except for the first life when he married her off, which makes NO sense and author did not even explain properly why this guy, who loves his sister so much, treated her so poorly when it is shown at the end that he would do anything to keep his sister safe. But I can’t hate him for this because that’s just author not able to write properly.

The whole manhwa felt like that one Moon Knight meme saying “random bullshit, go!”. Because most of the manhwa was literally just random bullshit to try make the plot interesting/adding tropes but failing miserably.

Most of the time reading this manhwa I kept asking myself “what the fuck is the point of this?” and the answer is almost always “there’s literally no point”.

Never trust ratings on this website. How the fuck is this 9.3 stars???

Grown ass woman gets reincarnated into a body of a 10 year old girl and meets ML, who is also a child. Already weird dynamic, but there could be ways around it to not make it weird! Separate them! Make them grow up separately! At the very least, make it so MC’s memories are so fragmented so that she stays as an actual child!!

But no. Author really decides to dig their own grave and make MC fall for ML when they are 13 years old!!!! What the fuck!!!! Reminding you, that’s a grown ass woman in a body of 13 year old girl falling for 13 year old boy!!!

AND THEN when they are 15, MC can’t stop describing how handsome he is, his lips and other things about him that she loves. Girl, kys. Disappear. Walk off a cliff.

I’m also uncomfortable with the way author is really trying to highlight the fact that ML is so mature and so smart beyond his age, obviously trying to make the dynamic less weird and ‘put them on equal footing’. Just no. No. Fucking starting a successful business at 10 years old? Running household and finances at 10 years old?

I have nothing nice to say to the author or people defending this type of trope.

MC reincarnated into a body of a villainess and became something even worse.

I like the idea of this story and it kept me on the edge of my seat, not knowing what would happen next. However, even after finishing it, I felt a sour taste in my mouth…

Romance was unsatisfying, because Edith didn’t have a backbone to stand on business. She had some of it in the beginning, but then it would immediately not matter because she couldn’t stay mad at ML and let him walk over her. Why even say something “I won’t forgive this” only to never bring it up again? He got forgiven very easily and romance itself felt shallow.

The way ML fell in love also felt shallow and purely sexual. MC definitely didn’t fall for his personality and fell for his looks. He was lusting over her and started showing romantic interest only after sleeping with her.

I would’ve loved to see more of his love towards her, hence why there should’ve been a chase arc for him to repent for his awful past actions, but it all got swept under the whole “he was under rules of the novel” thing. It’s not satisfying for me. I remember when I was reading I could only whisper things like “die die die die die” when he was on screen. So when he didn’t even get consequences for his actions towards MC, I was left empty and didn’t care about him that much.

It felt like author was writing MC perfect on purpose where everyone else had a fault about them and readers could get mad at, but never the MC. She is written too perfect and good. And maybe that’s why author didn’t write that she held a grudge against anyone, which was actually frustrating for me.

Other characters (not every side character) were also shallow af. No personality besides their roles. A villain is a villain just because. It’s not interesting. The characters that could be interesting have no ‘screen’ time in the manhwa.

I’ve been promised that this is a manhwa with cool and powerful MC, but it isn’t. It’s cringe and boring as fuck.

This manhwa has so many problems. First of all, the main character. She is all over the place. Author is trying to build her up as this cool, smart, beautiful but vengeful badass woman, but instead made her look like a cringe edgelord teenage girl. You can’t create a persona of a cool vengeful when she has all the power in the kingdom only to be obsessed with revenge on some random baron who doesn’t have the status, power and connections that she has. Seeing her being so obsessed with ruining his life after he cheated, while she already has all the power is pathetic.

It would’ve been much better if she was getting her revenge as a commoner with much less than him then at least it’s making it more interesting. But no, she instead decides to do some convoluted shit just to steal a position of heir from him. Are you shitting me? There are so many ways to fuck him over with her position without doing all that. And you want me to believe that she is smart? Girl.

Seeing MC being this angry over some baron guy who is dumb as fuck and being manipulated by a princess is not cool. This dude is already at the BOTTOM of aristocratic hierarchy. He is not smart, he is not manipulation master to pose a threat to MC. He is less than a dirt under her nail (with her position and status), but he makes a big deal out of ruining his life now. It’s not giving ‘girl boss getting her revenge’. It’s giving immature and blowing things out of proportion.

That leads me to another point: author is just all over the place. Starts with cheating plot and pretty serious with her father finding them. You would think that there would be an arc to show how these two interesting characters, who have a angsty dynamic going on that needs to be solved. She has a grudge in her father and mom for the whole misunderstanding thing. Her dad doesn’t show much emotions, which creates another misunderstanding between MC and him. MC thinks he doesn’t care about her much, while his ‘tough love’ approach is his way of showing love. But no, time skip, the whole dynamic is treated as a joke and author then keeps bouncing between plot points. And non of them are interesting.

So, my last point: it’s fucking boring. I read 50 chapters of a nothing burger. Literally eating straight buns and no substance in it. Instead of focusing on interesting parts in the beginning of the manhwa, the building stages of the plot, author just throws everything at the reader and, in the end, nothing sticks. Daughter and father relationship? Boring. The revenge plot? Boring. The whole thing with assassins? Boring. I know nothing about her mom and don’t care about her relationship with MC, because it’s just a background thing that exists. ML? Boring. He was interesting in the beginning with the whole mystery, but then author immediately showed all of her cards with him and he became boring af.

No build up for anything. Just a rapid conflict, action, immediate resolution and on to the next conflict. Most of the arcs serve no purpose but to show how cool MC is, catching scheming nobles who are even dumber than her.

The whole thing was a mess and a waste of my time. Save your time and read something better for the love of god.

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