A Tyrant's First Love

Description

From the moment she woke up in a foreign country, Dia knew she was fated for misery. With no memories of her past and unaccustomed to the language, she was taken in by a baron’s house. For four long years, she was beaten and abused with only the eldest son of House Knolls as a friend. But everything changed when the sadistic emperor of the Caios Empire, who was notorious for having a macabre hobby, barged into the mansion and gazed deeply into Dia’s eyes. From that moment on, she was whisked away into a gothic nightmare of blood and lust. Could Emperor Caire hold the key to unlocking Dia’s past?

Original Webtoon:
Kakaopage, Ridibooks, Naver Series

Official Translations:
English: TappyToon, Manta
Others: French, Thai, Japanese, S.Chinese, Spanish

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

Cinta Pertama Sang Tiran

El primer amor de un tirano

El primer amor del emperador tirano

Le premier amour du tyran

Poggunhwangje-ui Cheos-salang

The first love of the tyrant emperor

The Tyrant's First Love

รักแรกของจักรพรรดิทรราช

侍女的帝君

嗜血暴君的初戀

暴君皇帝の初恋

폭군 황제의 첫사랑

폭군황제의 첫사랑

Groups Scanlating

69 IQ Scans

A Little Sunshine Scans

Ephemeral Rain

Latest Release(s)

c.36 by Ephemeral Rain 5 years ago

c.35 by 69 IQ Scans 5 years ago

c.34 by 69 IQ Scans 5 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

75 Chapters (Complete)

S1: 35 Chapters (1-35)
S2: 40 Chapters (36-75)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 6.5 / 10.0 (97 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.44 / 10.0

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Last Updated

June 8th, 2025 10:37am PDT - 6 days ago

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Genre

Drama Fantasy Historical Josei Psychological Romance Supernatural Tragedy
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

Kim Soo Oh

Artist(s)

Chiwa

Year

2019

Original Publisher

Daon Studio

Daum (Expired)

Kakao

Serialized In (magazine)

Kakaopage (Kakao)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Manta

Tappytoon

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #582

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Monthly Pos #1913 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3291

(-79)

6 Month Pos #3932

(-709)

Year Pos #4740

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List Stats

On 438 reading lists

On 152 wish lists

On 150 completed lists

On 51 unfinished lists

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Interesting beginning, but failure of a middle

by Rage_Beat06
2 years ago

Rating: N/A

Pretty art and interesting story. But once you end season 1 it's just a boring flashback that ends with characters having completely different personalities. Not entertaining enough to continue.
50 chapters read.

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Just not there

by Avamelon
2 years ago

Rating: N/A

The concept was actually quite interesting. It was however all over the place and much like what everyone else is saying, the pacing was way too hard to follow. I went to the end just because I was curious and it was alright I guess. But I think it was rushed. There was no satisfaction in it. The Flash back was wayyyy too long. While knowing the backstory is good... It would have been better broken into pieces and events as the ML and FL got to know each other. I'm giving it a 4 because it was interesting to a point and it was close to something really good.

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I strongly DISADVISE this manhwa.

by Cereris
3 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

I strongly advise against this manhwa.
The beginning is good and interesting...but as soon as the flashback part starts...I advise you to abandon the reading.
Negative aspects:

Characters that leave you with nothing
Endless nonsense
Time jumps inserted to speed up the story and finish it sooner
Inconclusive story that tries to be particular but fails to do so
Positive aspects:
The graphic style

Honestly appealing only to the graphic style in a story that is supposed to convey emotions means that there is a big underlying problem.

I am sorry but it does not deserve such a high grade.

... Last updated 2 years ago

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Unanswered Questions

by diE1
3 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

The ending was disappointing and finished on a cliffhanger. Also the background went on too long. Questions we had for the characters (i.e. how was Rune related/ background) were never really answered. The art was beautiful, but overall it was rushed. Pretty disappointed since this had a lot of potential.

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Terrible ending

by Snoopy219
3 years ago

Rating: N/A

started off interesting but the middle and the end of the story are so boring to keep up with that i skipped though most of it. Just to warn the ending is terrible, I don’t think this is worth the read at all. Really awful execution of a good story premise.

Don’t read it to save yourself time unless you just wanna look at the nice art …

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Underwhelmed

by Pompina Q
4 years ago

Rating: N/A

The storytelling was not great and was hard to follow. It seemed interesting at first but despite loving the vampire genres I just couldn’t get into it and the ending felt rushed. I wouldn’t even recommend as a filler read in between other manga.

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Well, the art was decent

by Ginni212025
4 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

The story was all over the place and unoriginal. I enjoyed the beginning, but found I didn't feel invested in the characters, the longer the story dragged on. The story became very boring, despite the drama. The pacing was very slow, at some points, and the ending felt rushed and unsatisfying. The only reason I managed to finish it was because of my love of vampire manga/manwha.

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Everything went downhill when the flashback started.

by DarthSiha
4 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

I don't think I have ever seen a pacing this bad. It was never the most original story - but it had it's moment in the beginning. If you want to give characters an extensive backstory - by all means - go ahead. But tell it in a way that doesn't hinder the story flow. It felt like the author just got bored of what they were writing so they started a completely different story. How long was it? 20 chapters or something? Why?? I actually forgot what the original story was after half of it. And if you think it's going to get better after the flashback. THINK AGAIN. because now we skipped half a year, and you know how we will find out what happened in those 6 months? THROUGH FLASHBACKS! like, what?

Characters are bit lacklustre.
Art is nice though.

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Almost but not quite

by Runtywendo
5 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

Art good, characters nice, plot eh. It's enjoyable enough to keep reading like a small snack, like popcorn per say. BUT nothing is really fleshed out, story is all over the place and the Emporer's right hand man can't decide if he has an eyepatch or not. Honestly if you're gonna create a mediocre story the very least you could do is have consistency. That's like the minimum requirements for quality and professionalism. Kind of disappointing because this series has a lot of potential.

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