Excuse me but how many kisses can I give you for this excellent comment because I absolutely love how you sum this up better than I could've
But here are kisses anyway
Wait are you telling me that the manwha artist rewrote the story from a cool revenge/redemption arc of a girl who was wronged by her father and a LITERAL DEVIL and trying to save her country from destruction to a girl who's stuck in a love triangle and casually trying to save her country??? WTF
Yup that's exactly what happen
An occuring issue in manhwa these days is to make romance the main genre. This would be typically fine if the manhwa's plot is mainly focused on that aspect. However for a lot of isekai and time travel stories, this DOESN'T work.
With WMMAP and AIWTRO, the romance is a SUB genre, not the main. In the novel for AIWTRO, romance wasn't even a genre. The manhwa writers for some odd reason, seem to not understand the difference between MAIN and SUB. AIWTRO's main genre was basically revenge: the MAIN story was about Keira learning from her past mistakes to become a better person and dealing with Cosette.
I wouldn't have a problem if the manhwa author wanted to include romance as a subgenre since not only does that have a higher demand but it's what attracts most readers. My issue is that the manhwa artist has gone ahead, and basically rewrote the novel to become romance heavy when originally.. it had little to none of those elements. Keira's strong resolve, her relationships and improvements have all been stripped so she could become some shy school girl experiencing a silly love triangle while her HOMELAND is being threatened by a LITERAL devil. Everytime Cosette is brought up, one of the male leads to brought up afterwards and it's infuriating.
By far.. the most interesting factor of this storyline was Cosette. Her origins and goals have been the main plotline of this whole story.. yet she gets handled to the side like a pathetic side plot. Joseph's character has nothing built to him except for the fact that he's devoted to Keira.. no personality or goal. Erez.. most his character is mysterious which is intriguing but not for a male lead who is someone we should be able to trust, especially after 70+ chapters. Keira doesn't seem to even understand relationships, she only seems to like the IDEA of one due to all the stories she's been reading. Her novel counterpart was someone independent with pride yet that doesn't seem to exist here.