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Promising at first, but the pacing gets boring. MLs are painfully dull, and the FMC obviously has a favorite? She has no real reason to keep everyone around and it even feels out of character. Few characters stand on their own, and once I got bored of the FMC, the whole story was a flop.

I forgot the MC's name and have no desire to start reading this again. Art style changes as well.

Pathetic FMC who has no will of her own. She is pity fodder whose only depth is dependent on what you project onto her. Scenes only ever happen to her, and she doesn't take action at all. The events of the story are all inconsequential too. Details that get might be interesting are forgotten because it's only a cheap device for something new and bad to happen to poor little Ruby.

All the characters are hollow and empty and have the communicative skills of infants. They only know to have frightening outbursts that further traumatize Ruby and leave her thinking...absolutely nothing. She asks one question into the void like, "Why is he so angry?" and leaves you with a wall of silence so you can fill it in yourself. It won't matter anyway, because there's no sense of continuity. Male lead is just as empty and annoying, typical emotionless type who is angry he cares about a woman for the first time ever and takes it out on Ruby.

This story is just cheap trauma porn with no structure. Incredibly boring and frustrating.

Started reading for the pretty art, stayed for the funny art. A story that doesn't take itself too seriously and lets the MC make funny faces even if they're "ugly".

It's a fun and light subversion of tropes with lively characters. I was disappointed nothing happened between the MC and the "original" MC but her lack of romance also gives her more agency, so I am happy for her. I didn't have to be worried about girl on girl hate and having random women be villainous caricatures, so I was happy.

Standard revenge story. It was very self-indulgent, but I never got mad enough to remember it as I'm writing this review. It was okay. Nothing remarkable, but that's not a bad thing.

Didn't end up reading the bonus content with the daughter from the future because I got bored.

Consistently pretty art, competent FMC, good pacing.

It was a fun fantasy power fantasy that felt enjoyable the whole way through. Maybe the ending was a little too happy, but I didn't actually mind. There was still weird Orientalism in this too, but that wasn't focused on too much. Still, and unfortunate stain on this otherwise rare treat.

I didn’t like the pacing of the story and found the male lead to be too possessive even for a webtoon. I burned through this story in two days in hopes of reaching the part of the story where I would feel satisfied but I never reached that here. I never felt that the female lead was ever in peril or that she would face consequences, so I was not invested in the stakes.

I read this on NAVER when it first came out before it got paywalled. I cried then, and cried again the second time I read it here. The art is good quality, and the story is narrative-driven with satisfying themes. I love a good Korean historical-romance, and this one did not disappoint, managing to add little mermaid themes without being too heavy-handed or literal, but keeping the heart of the emotions.

Each character was well-developed, and I cared about them to the end. I wouldn't change a thing about how this story is told.