AHHHHHHHHHHHH! YES YES YES! This is a summary of most of my thoughts about this, I felt that I would be too harsh since everyone seemed to enjoy when I first wrote my comment.
The tea scene felt SO off, to the point I thought he really wanted her to be humiliated, she mentions in the carriage how he is usually a meticulous person, I thought to myself, "you were set up girl!" and the way she is thrown tea just like that confirmed that to me at the moment, "he must want her to be humiliated for what she did to his BF" I thought, and then he receives a slap? They make out? He gets protective, jealous and blushes? GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!
Lol. I feel you. I wondered if I was coming off too harsh but I couldn’t mince my words on this. I’ve read some of the positive comments and they all amount to praising the „beautiful“ art Style and not the substance. And I’m not surprised by this as there is nothing else to praise here. And for that matter, the art style (not in the promo) is lacking „soul“. They look more like beautifully paintings without emotion. And that’s never a good thing for a medium where the conveyance of emotions by the characters rely heavily on the visuals. The characters just look empty shelled. And the juvenile writing makes this even more obvious.
What I also found weird is this time lapse of 3 years for everything to suddenly start happening. Zion claims to have become interested in Erika because she was the cause of his friends ooc reaction. But how fascinating could that whole scenario have been for him if he waited 3 years to approach her? They obviously move in the same social circles and he never stumbled over her before this? And if he was so interested, why not seek her out sooner? Was he just observing his friend for all those years and then became bored and finally moved onto his next target? It just doesn’t make any sense and is all around juvenile. And i have to say it again. How can he call himself Leo‘s friend if he goes after the floozy that Leo still pines after? And why go after her at all? He blackmails her, let’s her be humiliated but suddenly wants to kiss her for real? And from knowing who the male lead is here, it makes even less sense. He comes across like a person who observes insects through a magnifying glass as a hobby, and if something irregular happens becomes fascinated with the unexpected chain reaction of things. But not really the source (Erika) of such reaction. He comes off as a person with psychopathic personality disorder. Like some cheap Hannibal clone, who sets people up in order to watch what would happen Which would be interesting if that was actually the plan. But because it’s written so poorly, I truly doubt it. If the novel is anything like this I don’t understand how it became so popular that we got a webtoon adaptation of this. The characters seem empty headed and self absorbed. From all the transmigration stories I’ve read so far, this is one of the worst.
Not at all, I think your comment was very constructive and critique, I enjoy a lot wall comments like that, I myself tend to write like that when I get excited for good or for bad haha.
I think you are mostly right, this feel such a waste of a manhwa, it could have being better than this.
I recently notice this wave of new manhwas that don't bother to introduce us the original soul reincarnator, maybe they think is too bothersome to explain the same introduction? But that's fundamental! How else would I know the juxtaposition between the original soul and the new soul? The different in personalities, the extent of their abilities, their limitations, that's the fun part of reincarnation/transmigration.
If the story is good enough they can maybe get away with not explaining that, for example "I raise Cinderella preciously" imo, got away with it, the character and the story is good enough to not pay too much mind to that, the difference between transmigrator and OG had being established, even if it was not in a precise way and was left ambiguous.
Don't be able to take criticism as a fan of something you like makes you childish, I say this as response to comments like "can you stop leaving mean comments :( " "if you don't like it, don't read it! >:( "
I was pumped when I noticed that this promo was actually being serialized. And then I started reading it and I’m more than underwhelmed. It’s moving too quickly for my taste. The „heroine“ is just wishy washy, as is her nonexistent backstory. She’s some random girl that reincarnated into the villainess of the story during her relationship with Leo. She breaks up to put the story back on track. I get all that, but why continue to date all these random guys for more than 3 years? The only hint we get is her side comment about how she feels that she actually turned into Erika. This seems like such a huge deal to me, and for the author to ignore the implications is such a wasted opportunity imo. This would be really interesting to have a transmigrated person slowly develop habits and thought processes of the original host and despair over it. But this opportunity is just squandered for no reason, and that makes me believe the author never really thought too much about it. Or it’s the artist who can’t visually represent how ominous this would be. Whatever the case, it just makes the FL„ look like a 2 dimensional character, who dates random guys for no reason other than because the original host did. We don’t get any backstory for her, which should be the first scene to establish what kind of character the FL is and how she juxtaposes with her host. But from what we see so far, she’s the same kind of floozy with the way she acts. The only difference is her thought process. So why not have Erika time travel back to her own past to change her future? Why use a random person who is more or less the same?
Anyways, I get this is a fantasy that emulates the look of a historical world. But it just looks dumb to me to have Erika, who is a noble, take on so many different „lovers“ without any repercussions to her reputation, which would already have had an impact on her access to society. I don’t know if the term „lovers“ is actually the accurate translation here or if it was meant to be „Suitor“. If not, are we meant to believe she had sex with all those guys? Or at least heavy sexualized romances? I guess as an author you can do anything you want but what marks a good story is that even if you write fantasy, the world you create needs to have logic and structure. And if you use an antiquated class system that exists solely to amass wealth, connection and pure bloodlines, it would never be permitted for a young unmarried lady to just take on lovers, or a noble man seducing a high society miss. This just breaks immersion for me.
Zion to me is just unlikable. He claims to be Leo‘s friend but for some reason pursues Erika. The girl that made him see his best friend break down into tears. And he also is nonchalant about Leo probably seeing Erika in his house. What he says doesn’t align with his actions at all. Normally I would presume that he is a villain in disguise, who wants to hurt one or both of them. But honestly, with how the character of Erika was handled, I suspect that he’s not. And that we will probably get a scene where Leo will be vilified for feeling betrayed. But what also doesn’t make sense is that Leo would pine after a girl for 3 years, who is collecting random guys like stamps.
And what’s with Zion‘s non reaction when his step Mother threw „water“ (even though it looks like tea) on Erika? Did he want her to be humiliated? But why does he suddenly step in when she tried to slap Erika?
I don’t know, this whole scene felt off to me. The stepmother is a bitch who verbally cut Erika down. But honestly, who would want a girl, who carries such a dreadful and loose reputation, to continue the bloodline? The Kiss was just uncalled for and was hilariously proving the point the stepmother made about Erika. I understand Zion wanted to rile up his stepmother, but if he anticipated this, why not interfere with her throwing water at his supposed fiancée? Why would Erika go out of her way and just kiss this dude who blackmailed her into being his accomplice? The behavior of the characters and the world that surrounds them lacks logic and is all over the place and thus this story becomes unenjoyable. I hope it will improve but I won’t hold my breath as the artist seems to want to fly through this story with lightning speed. Sorry for the ramble.