The art style is unique and gorgeous, but the plot and characters are good enough to carry the manhwa on their own. I like how FL is an actual child without any regressor/transmigrator shenanigans. Lyrica is a naturally innocent and kind child, but her instinct is sharp from the time she took care of her mother. Even her mother acknowledges how despite her being heavily drunk a lot of the time and her being a beautiful woman, they never got into any serious trouble because her daughter was just this good at feeling and avoiding danger. Lyrica is also probably on of the more emotionally intellegent FLs out there, and her mother is learning from her example, seeing as how they both tend to resolve any misunderstandings and speak their mind when it's needed. It's also great how the author made the story a regression story without it feeling like one, because that role was given to FL's mother instead. We don't have to listen to those constant inner monologues about how something is or isn't supposed to happen, and we don't have to see the empress constantly question her and her husband's feelings because of their contract marriage. Why? Because she is a side character! And speaking of the empress, I actually like how she isn't suddenly a perfect mother to Lyrica. She spent her previous life using and abusing her daughter however she liked, so it makes sense for her habits to resurface sometimes. And hearing how everything ended in her previous life is heartbreaking every time. She hated her own daughter her entire life, but that daughter always loved her and in the end sacrificed herself just so her mother could be alive and happy. If you think about it, Lyrica probably even thought that she was finally setting her mother free from the daughter that she hated so much, that's just how much Lyrica loved her mother. All the more tragic that she finally realized how much she loved Lyrica, but couldn't do anything but stare helplessly as Lyrica was publically executed, for her own sins no less.
The art style is unique and gorgeous, but the plot and characters are good enough to carry the manhwa on their own.
I like how FL is an actual child without any regressor/transmigrator shenanigans. Lyrica is a naturally innocent and kind child, but her instinct is sharp from the time she took care of her mother. Even her mother acknowledges how despite her being heavily drunk a lot of the time and her being a beautiful woman, they never got into any serious trouble because her daughter was just this good at feeling and avoiding danger. Lyrica is also probably on of the more emotionally intellegent FLs out there, and her mother is learning from her example, seeing as how they both tend to resolve any misunderstandings and speak their mind when it's needed.
It's also great how the author made the story a regression story without it feeling like one, because that role was given to FL's mother instead. We don't have to listen to those constant inner monologues about how something is or isn't supposed to happen, and we don't have to see the empress constantly question her and her husband's feelings because of their contract marriage. Why? Because she is a side character!
And speaking of the empress, I actually like how she isn't suddenly a perfect mother to Lyrica. She spent her previous life using and abusing her daughter however she liked, so it makes sense for her habits to resurface sometimes.
And hearing how everything ended in her previous life is heartbreaking every time. She hated her own daughter her entire life, but that daughter always loved her and in the end sacrificed herself just so her mother could be alive and happy. If you think about it, Lyrica probably even thought that she was finally setting her mother free from the daughter that she hated so much, that's just how much Lyrica loved her mother. All the more tragic that she finally realized how much she loved Lyrica, but couldn't do anything but stare helplessly as Lyrica was publically executed, for her own sins no less.