The book itself was fine. Not the greatest thing ever, but not a bad setup and the flow was good. But the female lead was just a selfish, mean-spirited, lying, hypocrite it made me SOOO mad. She is literally the perfect example of a villain you love to hate. Only this time she is the female lead and wins. Yes, her sister was bad, but she wasn't that much better, only she justified all her actions because her sister did it to her first... so that mean she can do the same stuff and she should feel no guilt.



... Last updated on April 5th, 2024, 4:13pm

reviewed @ ch 98/125

Which leaves us with two main Villainesses at the start. Aria and her step-sister, Mielle. Both are evil women/girls...who are only evil because of the adults who surrounded them.
It's honestly tragic. In the prime timeline both are manipulated into evil from a young age and so remain so as adult women. In the new timeline Aria dabbles in evil but is now capable of independent thought and so can temper herself. Mielle has no such blessings. And it's not like Aria is any position to reverse the damage done to Mielle's personality, or prevent any more...nor does she have any intention to (villainess, remember?)

Which means when the time comes for Aria to take her revenge, I feel kinda bad for the child Mielle...and it just gets worse and worse. A true tragedy.

There's a couple other villainess characters...like 2 more main ones, a couple more named women who are pretty bad and a smattering of background characters, too.

Really this series doesn't have many 'Good' characters.

P.SI have no idea was Joese (comment below) was talking about for most criticisms. I suspect he/she read a bad translation. Go with the official one, perhaps? At least towards the end. iirc Anxious Frog had issues with a different series (The Villainess Lives Again) TL so I didn't even try this time

... Last updated on January 31st, 2024, 3:58am

The first two seasons are more or less fine, I liked how she was consistent and relatively helpless, slowly building her own power while the male MC also tried to control his own destiny. The finale was also more or less expected but for some reason the story went on (I recommend stopping after she completes her revenge since the author tried to explain everything with unnecessary elements). I mean after her revenge against the first maid you more or less expect how she will deal with her enemies ...

But there are various aspects that were poorly executed. Another thing that made it a bit unreadable might be how most English translations have lots of missing panels ...so I recommend checking out the official translation or another language ...

Since the start we as readers know the prince's identity so it's a bit frustrating how he author baits us on her knowing his identity and then discarding her thoughts for no reason at all.

Her reveal as investor A : A bit before that point there is a growing inconsistency with nobilty. Up to that point they did a rather fine European setting but it suddenly shifts to the typical fusion fantasy with Asian heavy influence. ¿And why wouldn't she buy a nobilty title or be independent after that?

The worst of the second season finale:


And all the being nobel/status play and goes down the drain with her ex maids and the "bad guys"... It was one of the most consistent parts throughout the story. But instead they disregard consistency in favour of making a situation in which the MC has various monologues about how bad they were and doing the same the next arc. I mean she goes from being the person with most asets/polytical power inside the kingdom to the stereotype of dependent queen in shoujo manga that relies on her bakground.

In her previous life she was manipulated like a idiot but and the end of life if lol sister didn't tell she would've died like a fool she is man what a trash start but this whole manhwa is trash tbh a dog ML infuriating side characters like with no common sense, world build is a mess not deserving of this praises to be sure idk why people like or even read this trash but open your eyes and drop this rubbish.

I binge read it, and mostly enjoyed the journey. If it wasn't for binge reading, I might have lost interest and dropped it during the times that it got dragged out too much--Especially the epilogue chapters featuring annoying kids from the future. Yuck.

I wouldn't read this again, but it wasn't a waste of time. Well...maybe it was a slight waste of time to read.

The romance had almost no emotional connection to me. There wasn't really any tension and they kinda yawned through it. A boring romance with no couple struggles after they reciprocate feelings. Completely lacked passion.

Poor Oscar (who can be described as Disney's "Go Away Green" paint color in human form) was so completely forgotten that he didn't appear in any character summary montages at the end. I actually was curious about his life as a commoner after the great aristocratic purge.

It should have ended after the first 2 seasons. Everything was just right up until then. After that season 3 nothing happens so it's for nothing. And the epilogue idea was nice but made Aria stupid and annoying and made some things illogical.

If I had one complain it would be that

Other than that it was a great read with a refreshing POV.

I'm one of the few that didn't like this story. The beginning started off interesting but went downhill. I love a good story about a villainess protagonist but I don't like this FL. I've read my share of vengeful, manipulative, and malicious FLs but Aria is just not a very likeable character. Her character comes off very 2D for the most part and other times, it just completely feel like different characters altogether. She starts off as a cheerful, angelic girl then transitions to a haughty, spoiled brat then a cold, spiteful villainess. I understand her experience and the surrounding people caused her to change but her essence just completely disappears. I was a fan of ML in the beginning but at some point, he became a wallflower and I lost interest in his scenes. The whole revenge plot drags and the continued use of magic powers just further dragged down the story. I probably dropped and picked the story up again around 3-4 times. I really wanted to like it because the art is beautiful and everyone talks highly of it. I did end up finishing it (I had to skip some chapters towards the end), but it definitely wasn't a favorite of mine.

Probably the only villainess I know that stays a villain with their thinking because she only thought of her survival til the end still holding such motives from each person she uses, although she did become kind because of the people around her.

Maybe because of that, I didn't like it but I commend her consistency.

When I first read this, I fell in love with how pretty Aria is. Like legit haha, she's so gorgeous I had her screenshot. She's badass and smart, but then somehow I got bored with the pacing after I.F died but I didn't realize they started with the side stories with that. I thought it dragged a bit at the end, but overall... it was good.

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