Lia's Bad Ending

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Emilia is reborn in a romance game as the jealous friend of Ophelia Windrose. Knowing that Ophelia will die young, Emilia chooses to love her, and the two grow as close as sisters. After her friend's death, Emilia departs to live a quiet life. The three male love interests are supposed to use the loss to connect to Ophelia's replacement. But instead of pursuing her, they all seem more interested in Emilia! Can Emilia navigate their newfound desire, or will she always be in Ophelia's shadow?

Original Webtoon:
KakaoPage, Daum

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

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

Lia's Bad Ending (Novel) (Adapted From)

Associated Names

The Bad Ending of an Otome

The Bad Ending of an Otome Game

The Bad Ending of the Otome Game

The Otome Game’s Bad Ending

Болзоот тоглоомын харуусалт төгсгөл

Плохой конец этой отомэ-игры

จุดจบแสนเศร้าของเกมโอโตเมะ

乙女ゲームのバッドエンディング

乙女游戏的悲惨结局

邁入戀愛遊戲的壞結局

那个乙女游戏的坏结局

그 오토메 게임의 배드엔딩

Groups Scanlating

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Status in Country of Origin

89 Chapters (Ongoing)

S1: 26 Chapters (1~26)
S2: 29 Chapters (27~55)
S3: 34 Chapters (Ongoing) 56~

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User Rating

Average: 7.2 / 10.0 (72 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.92 / 10.0

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Last Updated

October 13th, 2025 6:33am PDT - 6 days ago

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Genre

Drama Fantasy Romance Shoujo
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

Cheomji

Golden Eye Bird

Artist(s)

Cheong-won

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Year

2021

Original Publisher

Daum

Kakao

Yeondam

Serialized In (magazine)

Kakaopage (Kakao)

Kakao Webtoon (Daum)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Tapas

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

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Monthly Pos #1726

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3 Month Pos #2665

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6 Month Pos #3221

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Year Pos #4199

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Pretty good and promising for more

by MatrixM
1 year ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

Reviewed @ch 37
So the novel has over 200 chapters. And we've had 55 chapters of the manhwa in 3 years.
So I decided to just read some of the fan tl and come back ina few years to read the series fromt he beginning in official TL. Cos the fan TL is good at parts, but definitely has frequent mistakes that are jarring/immersion breaking.
But I ended up reading 37 chapters instead of just one or two.

This series starts with an incredible opening, really emotional, in chapter 1.
And the grief and melancholy never really leaves the series. Emilia is still grieving. Others are, too, but Emilia's takes a different form. I think when grief is depicted well it often results in something beautiful, and we have that here.
We have a very likeable lead character, with a very interesting relationship with her childhood friend that's fortunately frequently show in flashbacks throughout the series. Even as we know she's already dead. It's the kind of story I've always been interesting in writing myself.
I personally view their relationship as being unspokenly romantic in nature, even as it was co-dependent af. And it feels all the more tragic, yet powerful, for it. quote:

"If either one of us had been a man, we would have been married and my name would've been next to her's on her tombstone." (Idk what chapter that's from but I saw a screenshot of it on reddit)

The glasses guy is just crazy and thus boring. The cousin seems like he could be interesting...if given the oppurtunity with more screen-time. The blonde guy is...well I was going to say he was just ok, with potential. But ch 37 shows there's a lot more to him.
Chapter 37 overall is a very interesting chapter that raises the quality of the story, really.
But the best part is Ophelia's relationship with Emilia. It's interesting that this is a rare series in which..well Ophelia is not a good person. Emilia describes her as horrible. Yet Emilia is also perhaps the only one who truly loved her. And Ophelia loved her in turn. We don't usually get that unless it's in a villain.

This series does a fairly good job with it's central mystery (slowly introduced) and a very good job of depicting its lead who is an unreliable narrator. She's so sure of her view of people because of her knowledge of the game ...and realising that she shouldn't be also means she'd have to open herself to examining her own low self-esteem. There's an interesting conflict there.

There's a little more I want to write, but this is mostly a placeholder comment until I come back in a few years after reading the official TL. (again, the fan TL has issues and lowered my enjoyment). I rate it a 7 for now, but suspect a better TL and more of the story would result in a higher rating.

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by Onism
1 year ago

Rating: N/A

Couldn’t get into it the first time reading. Better the second time.

Attractive art
More about her relationship with her friend than it is about the love interests.
Complex relationships
Quiet, mournful kind of story pace
Mystery surrounding Ophelia and Ophelia’s look alike
FL: graceful, melancholy, somber (to fit vibe of plot)
Emotion packed flashbacks
Slow pace plot
Villainising not believing in God (Ch 54)

‘non-believers’ turned savage without order rhetoric

CONTENT WARNINGS
Grief, death, terminal illness, toxic relationships, parental abandonment, neglect by parental figures

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Not for me

by DhariaCole
2 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

This is my second time trying to read this story but I just can’t make it past chapter 21.

I like that the main character chose to be friends with Ophelia and not become a villain.

But I hate that she has this super negative self image and instead of having conversations with people, just assumes the worst about them based on what happened in the game.

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Little slow but I have hope

by Lementropy
2 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

At times this seems to be a little slow and the female lead can be so constantly self critical that it starts to drag, but there are glimmers of a depth to the story and the emotions that just keeps me going. Currently this series is on chapter 28 and where it goes from here will say a lot more about the quality and how the story will be handled. So, to be seen! I have hope that it will be good!

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Wish this had the guts to be yuri

by glowtoads
3 years ago

Rating: N/A

I didn't have any expectations for this but I am pleasantly surprised with the relationship between Emilia, the MC, and her best friend Ophelia. It's complex, deep, and most importantly it is always there, even when Ophelia dies. Emilia's love for Ophelia IS the core of the story, and actually, I don't even know who the ML is. Couldn't guess for the life of me. A lot of the scenes with the MLs are very annoying; at best they slow down the pace, and at worst they just take up my time. At this point, an attempt at a reverse harem doesn't suit the story at all, but generally I like where this is going.

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Amazing

by Charrr
4 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I love how they handle grief and also FL is a breath of fresh air. I also love the childhood crush to lovers approach. Also it’s impossible to get 2nd lead syndrome because all the other MLs pale in comparison to the ML

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Like It.

by kurotaito
4 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

The FL character is a different approach to cold.

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