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45: I get Charlize's need for revenge. What the emperor did to her was disgusting, disturbing and horrifying, and her father and older brothers who ignored and mistreated her in her past life was horrible, so I get the why this happened so early in the plot, but I don't see why she still wants to destroy the kingdom. How was she any different from the emperor and his subordinates?
After finishing this at ch 120 and waiting for the epilogue, I am so glad I stuck to it. It was beautiful and while the middle about deva and is she or isn't she was frustrating, I understand why it had to be done. We needed to see her struggle through and work through those dark emotions to get to a resolution. I wanted more of her growth because the turn around was so abrupt that I am still reeling from it. I'm glad she met Dylan, but I am so gutted for Kihu. In any other story, he would end up with the girl after chasing after her when on one else cared, but as much as I hate that he was hurting in the end, I loved that they resolved and talked about their past and about how she couldn't love him the way he wanted or needed. I hope they give him a story of his own, and a good woman deserving of his love, I do not want to see more bs about how he's going to pine for Charlize for the rest of her life.
Dylan for me was a complex choice, I loved parts of him, but he was also very very dark and it makes me wonder that if for whatever reason, if charlize is gone, will he turn into dark overlord again, because while he was somewhat corrupted, it was shown that he had dark tendencies from childhood.
I much prefer Kihu and I really really hope he gets a story as well. Put him in another Kingdom or something.
I didn't mind that Char didn't make up with her family, but since part of the plot focused so much on them realising their neglect of her from childhood, I wanted to know what they planned to do going forward rather than just wallowing, because I doubt that she would ever forgive them, but what will they change in their lives to atone for their abuse?

Dropped

Was discontinued

I feel like I won't like this. dnf

68: I'm this close to dropping this. I loved the premise of the story, the little twist of the cousin and of course the time regression. The art is great, but the plot is losing me. This is setting up a 'most of all men are evil and women are mostly all good' thing and it's getting on my nerves. A strong couple is one who can grow and rely on each other. I don't like a plot that is elevating the female at the expense of the male, who is an established and accomplished duke. Come on, in his territory, a plague breaks out and the newly appointed duchess is the point woman, with barely any aid from her husband, who grew up in the area.
I hate stories that assume I am too stupid to know a good man from a bad one. The ml keeps telling the fl that he doesn't want to restrict her without any permeable. Had he come in with a firm strict tone, and she was against his directive, I could understand some points in the story that coming up, but it gets tiring. This story is trying to pit the men and women against each other. If the fl does something good, all the men are upset over it and women are happy for it, expect for her husband, and it's annoying. Of course in a society that looks down on women or has women bottled to only certain roles, that's not a unexpected, but I am sure there are also men who would also want to talk to her about her insights as well, especially with a plague that was running rampant. I don't know how much longer, I can keep reading this, but I am going to try, maybe this part of the plot will change.
Maybe it's the translations? I'll hold out judgement until I get to the officials before I decide to drop this.
76: Ugh Claude is getting to me. You are going to war, prepping for the demon lord, and you can't trust the sword that is the ultimate weapon to take him down, and you don't say not one damned word to your wife, the best summoner in the kingdom? How is this a good relationship if trust is only going in one direction?
82: dnf I wanted to love this. It is everything that I love but I don't. This can't have been written by a person, there was just something missing. If it was, I hope that person will read objectively what they wrote and try to find the flaws because they had a gem of a story but it just didn't come together for me.

The series was dropped. Too bad.

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This is really good. It turns a typical story and twists it and makes it so fresh

I really like this, but the main drawback is also why I love it. It's the mainlead. I am 64 chapters in and he's STILL talking about the original story. We have evolved from that plotpoint right now. I need my main character to be smarter than this now. if the story was going to keep to the original, then why did so much things change? his maid died, and his first bodyguard lived, his general died, and that other guy regressed to a kid's mind because of trauma, and his sister lived and is living with her female lover. I just can't understand his obsession with the original. He should have been dead a long time ago if the story was forcing the original. I'm getting tired of him and original plot original plot already.
I really liked this, I wished the translations were better, but they were readable, and the story is completed. There were parts that were heartbreaking and maddening because the main character didn't do anything wrong but be transmigrated into the body. I hated how some parts and some characters died, but the ending made up for it. I liked that these two got together in the end, but there is one question that I'm surprised the book didn't address and is how the emperor would have kids. I know the inner court would be clamouring for offspring to prolong prosperity and peace.

This was a very unfulfilling read. The pacing was off, the plot was rushed, and the relationships weren't fleshed out. It happened too quickly. This story should have gone on to 150+ to let the reader feel the tension and fear of the empress, but it fell short in everything. The emotional parts were too neatly tied, the badguys were dealt with so easily.

18: As of yet, I can't find a reason to like either the mother or the son. Chloe sat down, and asked her to have the maid be excused. The mother tells her that there is nothing the maid cannot hear and when chloe proceeded to tell her, the former duchess is upset because the conversation should have been in private. I need chloe to grow some fangs. I'm going through something similar with a work partner, who wants to blame all our mistakes on me, and I am not having it. We both made mistakes, I refuse to take responsibility for it alone. I will never shirk my faults but I wont take on anyone else's either. In that vein, I need Chloe to not be a doormat.
DNF 20 or 21. After going around deliberately being seen with women right after his marriage, he's here insinuating that Chloe and her male servant are having an affair. Excuse you? I don't care if he was having one or not, it set tongues wagging but he doesn't care about that. And so what if she was having an affair. He bloody well pushed her into a marriage of convenience, she had a life before. I just wished Chloe had more of a backbone. But these stories rarely have a fl that will stand firm against the man's abuse.