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Diarin, a priestess from the temple was assigned to manage the Mad Dog's PTSD at his residence. Forced to do so (by her work as priestess) she faces hardship in trying not to die as she figures out how to tame Ceres. It is a wholesome comedy romance and she eventually tames him through patience, care, and love (+ her divine power to calm him down). Diarin started with a Ceres that would pounce anything to kill but now is docile and would let strangers (servants, etc.) to touch him. After such hardship, they find themselves to care alot for each other (Ceres can't behave without her around and only listens to her) while Diarin is slowly falling in love. They realize that if Ceres were to become a proper noble- they can longer be together. What will happen to them now?
Side Characters & Plot
Hart: another member from the 8th division (from the war- and led the empire to victory although the second crown prince stole that glory). He lived with Diarin & Ceres for a bit and she help tamed him just a little. He and Ceres hate each other (lol)
Imperial family: for some reason, they are plotting against Diarin and sending assassins to kill her. A greater scheme is brewing in the background. The (unofficial) empress (Emperor's favorite) and her son is very interested in Ceres and Diarin- she also has divine power too.
Lord Robbern: is the one managing the PTSD and rehabilitation of the members of the 8th division and is trying to get them to be nobles. Is secretly working with the Imperial family for their goals.
Up to Chapter 92
Lithera Merto is on her third (and final) life- after dying at the hands of her husband the crown prince. With the regret of not getting to meet (and marry!) her longtime friend, Duke Pellus Termaine, she makes that her goal in her new life.
Originally transported into a fantasy novel as the protagonist, her second life she followed the novel closely as it was the only thing she can rely on. The God Noathe, accidently (I think?) took her and as repayment gave her one wish she can redeem (which she does to turn back time to marry Pellus).
She was a chosen one (by Noathe), became emperor, and saved the world from disaster all with the help (not really at all, revealed later) from the crown prince, who was manipulative and obssessed with her. When she became Emperor and all trials were beaten, she wanted a divorce but that led her to be murdered.
Living her third life, 3 lifetime worths of memory made her current body weak and stayed at home for most her life. Determined to get with Pellus, she decided to propose to him in the North.
Duke Termaine House was a collateral of the Imperial family, forced to guard the North from monsters. The Imperial family was afraid of them gaining influence and threatening the throne, killed Pellus’ parents leaving him alone to deal with the monsters. Shunned from high society (due to his beastly image), he only ever resides in the North until he meets Lithera.
Lithera tells Pellus the entire truth, about her 3 lives and such. They fall deeply in love and makes it their goal to live a happy life without anyone trying to disturb it.
Lithera meets with her friends from her previous life.
She meets Kartha, a merchant whom she befriended before she met Pellus in this life in order to get connections.
The high priest Astrum tries to divorce them, thinking that a chosen one has no right to be with a beastly duke but was punished by Lithera (she has holy powers) and changed his views.
The Lord of the Magic Tower Bernum, whom she needed help with to research ruptures.
Lady Monilla, the fiance of the crown prince, who is secretly planning a rebellion using Topaz, aka the bastard son of the Emperor, real name Javier. She was also one of Lithera’s great friends from the past and is a strong-willed and calculative woman.
When Lithera was disguised as a priest to obtain Pellus’ letters from her previous life, she runs into the crown prince and he becomes obsessed with her due to her showing him a smile that looked free (she was over him cuz she thought she was in love with him in her old life).
Trying to find who she was, he found that she was Lithera Termaine and married to Pellus. Trying to get them divorced, there is a law enacted by the current emperor thst states the imperial family can annul a marriage if they deem they are harmful to one another with an exception to the imperial family. This was made by the emperor because he was in love with Sylvia termaine, Pellus mother and hated his father, Callips Termaine. The emperor’s suborbinate, and Callips best man murdered the both of them for recgoniztion from the Emperor, but the Emperor was mad because Sylvia died.
Crown prince thinking he can force the divorce law onto Lithera, he would have to proove she was in a harmful marriage, so she would plot with Pellus how in love they are to everyone in high society!
All the while there are ruptures occuring, monsters from her previous life as her old world was destroyed when she died. These ruptures only occur close to her and she regains her holy powers back the more she closes it. From these ruptures, she meets Kartha and Bernum from her old world but they were turned into demons (with wings but are still themselves). After she died, Pellus went crazy and killed the crown prince and is now protecting the dead Lithera’s body. Wanting to save the people and especially Pellus from her old world, she makes it another goal.
Pellus, Lithera, Mona and Javier eventually finds the connection between chosen ones, the founding story of the empire, and why house Termaine is made to fight monsters, they noticed that the duty to fend off monsters was the role of the imperial family, but they eventually neglected that and made house termaine (related to them) to do that duty. Afraid they would ursurp the throne, they made them have little influence and banned the priest when they fight so they have no healers. They also found that the imperial blood wields holy powers able to perform miracles and thats why Pellus hasnt died yet his whole life fighting without healers. They realize the imperial family doesnt know about this power and Pellus probably has used up all his miracles to keep him alive. The miracles are activated when the person has a strong will or wish. The reason Noathe choose chosen ones from another world is to kill mondters and save the world as the imperial family forgot that duty, and if they were to regain that power they would use it to flee.
Wanting to not become emperor or hero in this life (more like shes too weak in this life to be hero), Topaz stepped up to take that role not only to become a hero and become emperor, but he feels a strong sense of duty after hearing all that.
Up to Chapter 120 (End of Season 3)
This is a really badly written summary I made in like 10 mins of the plot so far for those who have read it and forgot and doesn’t want to re-read everything to remember.
Born into a martial arts novel and reincarted as Cheon Rihwa from birth, she tries to do everything to not die as she is written in the novel to be the evil daughter. The original novel says that she will die from the main character and sect heir, Ak WooRyeon. Born as the only daughter of the infamous Demonic sect leader, Cheon Ma, she tries her best to help her sect and family to the best of her abilities!
Characters
Cheon Ma: the Father and leader of the Demonic sect, greatly cherishes his daughter as he never had any close relationship due to the tradition of Demonic sect leaders stating that they cannot have any strong emotions that will allow their demonic qi take over when they get emotional and kill everyone. He greatly trusts Rihwa from a young age as she is a born genius in his eyes (real reason is because she reincarnated).
Ak WooRyeon: he was kidnapped from a young age after Cheon Ma killed his parents and took him as sect heir as it’s tradition to adopt kids to become next sect leader. He wanted revenge but after meeting Rihwa, is priority shifted to protecting her at all cost, even if that meant he had to give up on his revenge.
The truth is, Cheon Ma did not kill his parents, but his grandfather, the leader of the martial alliance and (previously) the secret blood sect leader that killed Ryeon's parents for stealing a precious blood sect book while escapting the sect. Cheon Ma was childhood/orphan friends with Ryeon's dad and killed him as a request from him but was seen by the young Ryeon and that's why he hated him. Before dying, Ryeon's dad handed the Blood Sect book and told him to keep it safe.
Zero: an Imoogi that imprinted on Rihwa when she got trapped in the maze within the isolation training caves, and he helped her get out and ever since followed her around but Rihwa views him as a younger brother. He hates Ryeon and views him as a love rival. After the 10 year time skip he feels horrible for causing Rihwa to fall into a coma and Ryeon to be kidnapped. He has now matured and accepts whatever conclusion Rihwa and Ryeon will be and basically will be Rihwa's suborbinate forever with a one-sided love.
Throughout the story, character relations develop towards Rihwa while she was a kid. Many events in the story tries to frame the Demonic sect against the Martial Alliance (the Just Faction) but was the doing of the Blood Sect and their leader in order to kidnap/force Ryeon back into their sect. Rihwa is always one step behind the Blood Sect leader's plans and eventually Rihwa, Zero, Ryeon, and the Demonic sect fell into their plans. Zero, who held great contempt for Ryeon because he was jealous that Rihwa treated Ryeon more romantic than him, was hyponotized to bring back the secret Blood Sect book from the Demonic sect as a deal to get rid of Ryeon. The plan suceeded, and the Blood sect leader put Rihwa in an illusion spell and she laid comatized for 10 years dreaming about her (presumed to be) previous life with discreptancies of her murim life glitching in here and there.
She eventually wakes up and finds out that the Demonic sect and the remaining people of the just faction is now allied against the blood sect, whom has taken over the martial alliance. For the past 10 years, Cheon Ma was obviously furious but didn't attack the blood sect (and commanded the just faction to remain still too) for fear that leaving the demonic sect would let Rihwa in danger.
Rihwa's first plan of action is to save Ryeon. He has continually been brainwashed to forget about his past and his memories only goes as far back to when his grandfather (blood sect leader) saved him from the Demonic sect. The real goal of the blood sect leader is to find a suitable blood-related vessel to transfer his mind into and take over the body. Rihwa and the kids from the 5 murim families infiltrate the blood sect palace as a dance troupe in order to save Ryeon and defeat the blood sect . Rihwa manages to find out the true plan of the blood sect leader and is planning to save Ryeon by kidnapping him. However, it doesn't suceed but Ryeon's body is slowly starting to remember her and his past, and gets suspicious about the Blood sect's leader.
8/10
A light hearted read with a great twist and a satisfying conclusion towards the end. I think the story concluded on a great note (without rushing).
I think it was great that the plot slowly unraveled itself, with Liberta showing up in her dreams periodically and building up to the twist in the end.
I really love the FL's personality, super bubbly, likable, and always fangirls about her favorite characters, and the way everyone else thinks she's dying and acting benevolent but that just how she is. I also looooved the side stories! I feel like many other romance webtoons doesn't show a happy ending with the other male leads.
Things I wanted:
I just wished the romance between Daniel and Alisha was a little more fleshed out and maybe more drama between the male leads, as they all (except for Eugene, kind of) accepted that Alisha was falling in love with Daniel. I also think the story kind of missed having Alisha build a relationship individually with all the male leads, especially with Herrace, he was kind of just thrown in there with no relationship development.
7/10
A good, light hearted story about an author called "Vasser" who fell into her own novel! She meets the main villain Kyte of her 2-part series starring the first and second prince respectively.
Loves:
I especially love the plot of the story and romance of the two characters. It was interesting and different as the readers slowly understood the technicalities of Vasser's magic powers. I especially liked Kyte's character, as he was written quite well (compared to other characters)
The artstyle is also so pretty and at the same time simple, which gave its charm! I love the designs of Kyte and Vasser.
Critiques:
I love the plot and the hook at the beginning, however I think plot-wise that was the most interesting part of the story. I felt like the story had so much potential if it was fleshed out and written a bit better and dived into the complicated feelings of transmigrating into your own novel or other characters finding out that their whole world and lives are controlled/created by the person standing next to them than just accepting it as fact. Instead, it felt like the actions of characters and direction of the story felt insignificant, and at times forced. It felt like they were added just to push the story forward, and wasn't well thought out (+ so much plot armor) especially when Kyte's loyal aide, Perret somehow fell in love with Vasser with barely any romantic encounters. It felt forced to have a "love rival/triangle" for the sake of it. There are many more examples of this throughout the story (cough.. the "real" main villain of the story.. cough).
Conclusion:
It was a pretty good read, although not the best. If you love a light-hearted romance with some cliches, and a light plot, and short read, this is for you!
May contain spoilers??
Unemployed and just dumped by his girlfriend, MC buys a game called "Raising Lena" and finds himself trapped in the game and unable to leave until he beats the game. There are three rotating scenarios where he has to raise "Lena" as Leo.
First he enters a scenario where he's childhood friends with Lena and he is a hunter from a small village. This version of Lena aspires to be a priestess but also loves Leo dearly and either has to choose to give up becoming a priestess and marrying Leo.
Second scenario is that Lena and Leo are knights from the barbarian nation of Baltan(?) and has to participate in the war with the neighbouring nation.
Third, Lena & Leo are siblings and are street orphans but are secretly the prince and princess to the another kingdom whom were kidnapped and escaped into the current kingdom they are in. In order to prevent Lena from dying from sickness & starvation, he has to join gangs to earn money.
In every scenario, the clear condition is to raise Lena to become a princess- however, in every scenario it is very difficult for Lena to meet a prince, let alone marry them. The scenario ends whenever Leo marries Lena, Lena straying too far off the path to become a princess, or that Leo or Lena dies. After a scenario ends, MC is then forced into the next scenario endlessly.
Everytime MC fails, he gains a skill or item from how he lived his life and can use in the next attempt.
This takes a toll on MC, as he can never find happiness and peace if he does end up marrying Lena, and his immersion into the game as Leo increases... he also finds out later that he only as 20 tries and has completed 11/20 and has no idea what will happen if he doesn't clear it before then.
In every scenario, he progresses more and more based on previous lives and finds that all three scenarios are concurrent and are in the same world.