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i was rereading this 5 years later remembering it to be somewhat decent, but then chapter 8, with her first sentence, fucking cracked me up. it’s ruined for me

why did no one question that shit what the fuck

- extremely passive FL in the first half, she basically does nothing and just stands around for all the male characters to dote on while the “villainesses” get jealous.
- weird reincarnation mental age gap, and that is not the way a middle aged lady would act.
- no character had an in depth background story
- the pages being out of order was fucking hilarious when they were talking about a somber poisoning case and then suddenly were taste testing mayonnaise, then back to the poisoning discussion
- this was meant to be a romance but the story starts out with them already having mutual feelings. YAWNNN
- Male characters fall in love with FL after an exchange with like 5 sentences. Villainesses are completely reformed and redeemed and now a friend after a short monologue from the FL.

- In the first half why was the ML drawn in a different art style than anyone else he looked like a seme from a 2000’s yaoi
- I like stories that has a gradual romance unfurl, whereas the ML goes from intrigued to passionate, undying love within a single chapter, as if a switch were flipped
- In the last quarter the characterisation for FL that was been built up just gets thrown out the window, she acts completely differently ABRUPTLY. You don’t hear narration from her perspective anymore, and it’s mystifying because you don’t hear her thoughts and motivations to act and speak the way she does anymore. It almost feels like it was hinting at insanity by the end even though we know the manhwa would never do that. She just act extremely weird and hot-and-cold and she barely felt like a person, much less a character where we can envision ourselves in her shoes.
- The story DRAGSSSSS after the kidnapping. There are many points at which the story could’ve ended in a satisfying way, but they kept throwing in short insignificant conflicts in there that absolutely no one cared about just to extend the story. The kidnapping felt like the climax of the story, then the last HALF was the resolution. You spent HALF the story tying up uninteresting loose ends.
- FL was extremely unlikeable in the last half due to the hot-and-cold attitude we have no explanation for. ML is unlikeable and overbearing all the way through.
- I like how this manhwa does try to humanise characters who have done irredeemable things, I appreciate it, but that doesn’t mean I’ll like them as a character. They are still despicable.
- Would’ve loved to have the story give some screen time to the King before redemption because we were essentially told, not shown, his evil in the past. We do not see evil!King interact with our protag, which would’ve actually been interesting.

couldn’t get thru the first 3 panels because the art was so ugly

art is very meh, but i like the setup so far. waiting for the flirting tho

- artists need to stop making blonde so yellow, pls get them some purple shampoo smfh
- i need the captain of the knights so bad what a dilf
- this is more of a tea fanfic than it is romance
- alphonse doesn’t really feel like a character, he feels like an allegedly good looking wallet, an accessory. he doesn’t have any motivation or thought or feelings except “muh wife”

awww jade’s so cute i want to squish him

- Somehow the ML reminds me of Yoonbum
- Just about every other character is more compelling and has more interesting stories than the main leads, esp Gerard and Louis, or Gracie, or Evgenia, literally anybody else’s plot would’ve been so much more fun to read
- I have such a thing for Gerard and Ethan
- Literally could not care any less for FL and ML
- Hate to see Dietrich get 0 reprecussions for the drama he caused????? Take responsibility you old fuck

talk about a mary sue damn

no conflict has lasted more than like 2 chapters

if tornian didn’t look like a fucking kid i wouldn’t hate him so much