The Lady Needs a Break

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It is my cursed destiny to be reborn endlessly. A king, an archmage, a slave, a saint, a witch... I’ve done it all in my thousand years of life, and frankly, I need a break! My goal now is simple: to live like an absolute sloth. Unfortunately, I am Rubia, the daughter of a grand duke with a demanding family and a fiancé to boot. To live my dream sloth life, I’m running away from it all... except no matter where I go, nobody will leave me be! I just want to nap, but being lazy is hard work!

Original Webtoon:
Daum, KakaoPage

Official Translations:
English, Japanese, Thai, S.Chinese, T.Chinese, French

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

The Lady Wants to Rest (Pre-serialization) (Alternate Version)

Associated Names

La Dama solo quiere descansar

La Lady veut se reposer

Swigo Sipeun Lady

The Lady Wants to Rest

เลดี้คนนี้ขอพักบ้าง

公女様は休みたい

小姐想休息

想休息的小姐

淑女想休息

쉬고 싶은 레이디

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Latest Release(s)

v.5 c.172 by Luascans 2 months ago

v.5 c.171 by Luascans 2 months ago

v.5 c.170 by Luascans 2 months ago

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Status in Country of Origin

184 Chapters + Prologue (Ongoing)

S1: 43 Chapters (1~43)
S2: 38 Chapters (44~81)
S3: 42 Chapters (82~123)
S4: 43 Chapters (124~166)
S5: 18 Chapters (Ongoing) 167~

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Average: 6.8 / 10.0 (102 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.68 / 10.0

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Last Updated

October 11th, 2025 1:56am PDT - 3 days ago

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Genre

Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance Shoujo
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Author(s)

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Year

Original Publisher

Kakaopage

ToYou's Dream

Serialized In (magazine)

Kakaopage (Kakao)

Kakao Webtoon (Daum)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Tapas

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #575

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Monthly Pos #1270

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3 Month Pos #1598

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6 Month Pos #1840

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Year Pos #2119

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On 19 completed lists

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I can't stick around forever to wait for SOMETHING to happen

by lancergashinda
1 year ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

(Dropped: Chapter 70)
Normally, I would persevere at least until the end of the season but good god. I am bored as hell and it made me loose all motivation and steam about it.

FL: I actually don't have problems with all her skills. She's just incredibly stupid, but that's partly because of the plot.
Plot: As I said. BOOOOO. It's trying so hard to keep the FL in a specific situation at school for no reason, and she never make a move to actively do what she wants... the school situation doesn't even make sense. She won enough money at the casino the start for a whole commoner family to live for a year without problems. Easily could have asked to be erased from her family tree, which would have broken her engagement and just live comfortable with her maid without working. And just go to the casino once a year. There, problem fixed, no need to get involved in a power struggle for the Throne.
World building: Decent. Was sticking around for it but it's not enough for me to put up with... like 60 chapters more.
Romance: Ugh. Crown Prince won't take no for answer and is pissing me off, abusing the power imbalance. Her fiancé is slightly better but is also honestly disregarding her wishes to be left alone (which he is aware of because of his powers) and the fact she has no interest in him. Like boy, you know she hates bothersome stuff and still wanna marry her and make her queen? Come on. Wiesner is the best one so far but you just know he won't be end game because he's too nice and try to respect her wishes.
Other characters: Do their whole lives just revolve around FL?? Wtf. Bland hype men.
Art: Nice to look at 👍

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I'm the one who needs a break

by Shindu
1 year ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

The lady needs a break? I need a break from reading this slog. She only whines that she needs a break because she's too much of a cretin to take care of her problems before they actually become big. Reading this feels like a chore.
The protagonist just ruins everything for me. The author is trying to portray her as a genius, but she acts like a fool instead.

... Last updated 1 year ago

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Good but lost momentum

by serobins
2 years ago

Rating: N/A

This is pretty decent for the first two story arcs, and the art is nice to look at. It kind of runs aground in the third main arc, however, where it takes a detour into dating sim and family drama. As a sidenote, in these stories, why do the "princes" who are supposed to be competing to rule empires have so much time for dating? Why is it the most important thing in their lives? You'd think they'd have other things going on than going to street festivals and watching fireworks and getting into jealous spats over the FL.

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Trite

by Y_Sasuke
2 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

The problem isn't that the female MC is over powered with a tragic past and a lot of good looking princes of all stripes that chase her, but that the stories are boring and the men are not particularly attractive.

The art is probably the best part, but it can only do so much and after 50 chapters you get bored and annoyed.

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As bland and cliche as a reincarnation shoujo wish-fulfillment story as you can get

by Zsinix
2 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

Seriously, this was so incredibly boring... It was just about every cliche reincarnation trope strung together and played straight. All it needed was for her to realize that she'd read about this current life in a book.

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ugh

by TiredandDeadInside
2 years ago

Rating: N/A

"No" is a complete sentence. This 🤡 Prince needs to go find his circus and leave FL alone. What a creep, going after his own brother's future wife. Not to mention the extreme power imbalance that he's constantly exploiting in trying to get FL's attention.

I've never liked him and I hope the author doesn't try to make him attractive or redeem him later.

UPDATE: dropped

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For someone so experienced she sure isn't showing it

by Fidzius
3 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

So many lives with claims to becoming professional at many fields, yet gets got by simple bothers from slightly clever people.

All that skill goes to waste and the protagonist fails to avoid being constantly bothered.
Being between some-what relaxing to kind of enjoyable-
ending up mediocre and fairly boring.

... Last updated 2 years ago

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I'm shallow

by JapanRocks
3 years ago

Rating: N/A

I think me and this author aren't very compatible. Talented Maid, Doctor Elise, and this one, Lady needs a break. All of them have several things in common that just make them hard to read:

Mary sue Mc
Bland love interests
Characters acting contrary to their goals
B.o.r.i.n.g plot with no serious conflict
Pointless side characters

This one is especially frustrating, Rubia constantly does things to attract attention despite constantly complaining that she wants to live a quiet uneventful life. Yet I'm still reading it, even though I dropped the other stories without regrets. The only things I can think of that compels me to read this story is Rubia's character design, and the ultimate resolution to her curse which I want to see the end of. But mostly Rubia's character design. There’s something about sliver haired red eyed female leads....maybe I'm more shallow than I thought.

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I like the art

by hoBRO
4 years ago

Rating: 7.5 / 10.0

The female lead just wants to be lazy, but gets interrupted every time.

Anyways, if she truly wanted to be lazy,

maybe going to a school wasn't such a good idea lmao. Then again, she couldn't have known that would happen and that she'd encounter those people lol.

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Half-arsed storytelling

by AM_Woody
4 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

Dropped ch.28
It's got a good concept but the author goes against it with poor storytelling. The FL is supposed to be smart, but lacks a baffling amount of common sense, which is frustrating instead of funny. There's plenty of solutions for the hounding love interests, but she suddenly becomes as smart as a wood plank..

The MLs are bottom of the barrel (with the exception of the knight who hasn't got a chance anyway) who just pester the FL, and the fact it's gonna work for one of them is annoying. There isn't a single other memorable/noteworthy side-character.

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