The Beloved Bashful Villainess

Description

When Melody discovers she's a villainess in someone else's story, being a slave dealer's daughter only adds to her guilty conscience. After her mother kidnaps Loretta, Duke Baldwin's long-lost child, Melody tries to comfort the scared little girl and forms a sisterly bond with her. So when the duke finds them, he takes both of them home because now they're inseparable! As the rest of House Baldwin becomes enamored with Melody's warm heart, will she ever learn that she deserves to be loved too?

Original Novel:
KakaoPage, Naver Series

Original Webtoon:
KakaoPage, Daum

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

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

Agyeong Sonyeoneun Sarangbatgiga Bukkeureowoyo

The Villainess Is Shy in Receiving Affection

The Villainess Is Shy in Receiving Love

The Villainess Is Shy to Be Loved

สาวน้อยตัวร้ายชักรู้สึกเขินอายที่ได้รับความรัก

反派少女被爱意围绕

受寵若驚的反派少女

悪役なのに愛されすぎています

악역소녀는 사랑받기가 부끄러워요

Groups Scanlating

LuaScans

Sleep Deprived Pandas

Latest Release(s)

c.48-50 by LuaScans 1 year ago

c.24-27 by Sleep Deprived Pandas 2 years ago

c.23 by Sleep Deprived Pandas 2 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

101 Chapters (Ongoing)

S1: 45 Chapters (1-45)
S2: 31 Chapters (46-76)
S3: 25 Chapters (Ongoing) 77~

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Anime Start/End Chapter

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User Rating

Average: 7.5 / 10.0 (59 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.09 / 10.0

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Last Updated

July 29th, 2025 4:11am PDT - 3 days ago

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Genre

Fantasy Romance Shoujo
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Category Recommendations

Becoming a Family With the Duke and His Dear Son

Odebu Akujo ni Tensei Shitara, Naze ka Last Boss Ouji-sama ni Shuuchaku sareteimasu

I Became the Young Villain's Sister-in-Law

The Archvillain's Dying Nanny

The Fake Saint of a Reverse Harem Game

Recommendations

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Author(s)

Gyeonga (Terapin) [Add]

RYU HEON

Artist(s)

Chira

Year

2023

Original Publisher

Daum

Kakao

Terapin

Serialized In (magazine)

KakaoPage (Kakao)

Kakao Webtoon (Daum)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Tapas

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #515

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Monthly Pos #445

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3 Month Pos #969

(-397)

6 Month Pos #1191

(-447)

Year Pos #1335

(-127)

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On 167 wish lists

On 4 completed lists

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Loretta is a plot device not a character

by TiredandDeadInside
1 month ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

And Melody needs someone to tell her bluntly to stop basing her self esteem, sense of worth and validation on being with/around/useful as a sentient security blanket to Loretta.

It does NOT help that her

adopted family and parent's, the Higgins, motto is to idolize the Baldwins to the point of literally giving up their lives.

The Higgins are quite the prestigious family themselves but willfully remained subservient to the Baldwins in a show of undying, generational loyalty.

Loretta, the way she's written, has nothing going for her except being cute. That's it. She's got a 6th sense when it comes to Melody and is doing her best (I guess?) but 1.) She's a child, 2.) She's the youngest, and 3.) She's a girl.

All things that does not give her any real power in the society and culture she lives in. She's only protected not because of her name but because of how powerful the men are in her life. She's too young to understand this and, according to manhwa logic, she will never question it or even become aware enough of her situation to question it.

This means that Melody's situation, before (and even after) being adopted, was basically like quicksand. It's really uncomfortable to read knowing this, and knowing Melody will not think about herself as a separate entity from Loretta...for the longest time.

Thankfully Loretta is a sweet child. If I was in her shoes I'd feel suffocated with how clingy Melody is but all Loretta wants is to stay close to Melody.

The story, to the author's credit, DOES try to address this borderline toxic codependency and tries to get Melody to grow as her own person...just as Loretta is doing simply by being back with her own family. Except Melody's growth is still very much revolving around Loretta the child she's cared for for so long, the Baldwins the family that took her in, and Loretta Baldwin the character in her memory of "prophecies".

Melody simply isn't her own character. It's frustrating that she's stagnating in this way.

It seems like the vast majority of readers are following this only for Loretta but I'm not one of them. There's a lot of complaints on various sites about how Loretta is missing in a lot of chapters and the readers want her back.

Why, though?

Even if Loretta isn't physically around the story, and Melody's thoughts, plans and entire personality, are ALWAYS about her anyway. Loretta's existence is overwhelmingly felt in damn near every panel. Everything Melody does is to benefit either Loretta or the Baldwins. Full stop. End of story. Period.

-_-

... Last updated 1 month ago

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by Onism
10 months ago

Rating: N/A

👒 Melody (FL. Villain of novel)

mature, sympathetic to Loretta, dense
got memories of past life
a unique spark of magic
becoming an archivist

🌼 Loretta Baldwin (MC of novel)

shy. Pouty,
younger

🌼📚 Claude Baldwin (love interest?)

sunny, adores sister, confident
breaking rules with a smile
‘well known for being attractive’ type
eldest brother of Loretta
4 years older than FL

♠️💗 Lonnie Baldwin

panicked blusher, flustered around FL
transparent
childishly mean while blushing
2nd brother of Loretta

🦋🎓 Jeremiah Baldwin

inner hatred of his own family
at magic tower. Great potential as magician
3rd brother of Loretta
rarely home

🛡️⚔️ Isaiah

brash,
training to be a knight. Mother is doctor
childhood protector of FL

——— ASPECTS / TROPES ———

2D greedy villain mother
received memories of past life
‘I should befriend the protagonist to not die’
baby-talk in script
vessels that can take in too much magic and cause explosions
Found family
Time skips as they grow up

CONTENT WARNINGS
Parental neglect, classism, poverty/financial instability, parental death (mention), kidnapping, PTSD, child thinking of murdering family, suicide

... Last updated 10 months ago

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Carried by art and cuteness

by MatrixM
1 year ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

Reviewed @ch45 (end of season 1)
So basically this series mostlyhas two things going for it. The art (which is at the level of other good/great manhwa/manhua artists like Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess, or Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmother) and the cuteness of the 2 female leads, especially the 5 year old.

Apart from that, there's pretty much nothing going for it. We only just get introduced to what might be the wider plot in the last couple chapters of season 1. Instead up til then it's mostly just slice-of-life stuff with playdates or dealing with trauma, and not in a very interesting way.

I don't know if I'll come back for season 2. Maybe if I hear it gets better. I do know the webnovel has already been fully tranlsated as of a month ago (June 2024)

The MC in this has prior memories that are sort of hazy, and were revealed to her over a long period of time. As such she does not significantly mature precociously, she's actually mostly retaining her child-mental age rather than adult in child's body.

The story starts with her 10 years old, does a quick flashback to her at age 5, then back to age 10. For all of season 1 she's age 10 but my understanding is that she'll grow in age throughout the story.

Maybe that means the story will change enough that I'd be interested later, idk.
At present, I was considering a rating of '5' which is a kind of 'average/meh' rating, but I'm bumping it up one point for the art and bits of cuteness.

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Heartwarming......

by zoyahamy
2 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

After reading so many isekais full of conspiracy, finally found a gem, starting from siblings bonding to romance, everything is flowing as it should be, and the prettiest Loretta is my fvrt child now, she gives off a vibe of Anastasia but way cuter than her. At first I thought it would be cliche if fl is so shy, but maybe I would be like that too if I was in her place. While I've gotten bored seeing bi*chy sisters and head maid, It was quite refreshing.

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