Lauvil's manga / #Isekai(194)

It's a bit cringy and over the top at times, but overall pretty entertaining. A 23yo Korean woman dies from an incurable disease, which robbed her of all senses before killing her. When she wakes up she's inside the novel she read before she lost her sight, reincarnated as the Villainess, Ariel. Ariel is a genius perfumer, but has a rotten personality. She forced the ML into a relationship with her, by holding hostage the special perfume, that only she can make, which keeps the ML's curse/madness at bay. In the novel Ariel's villainous actions gets her killed. So, to destroy her deathflag the new and improved Ariel's first action is to break it off with the Duke. Next she plans start her own perfuming business to stave off her father's plans to marry her off to someone awful.

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Restart with official TS. I don't know who the ML is, yet, or if there even is one or if it's going to stay a reverse harem. Though I prefer monogamous relationships, I'm fine with this. I like the MC. She's strong willed, smart and compassionate. However, she does rely on her newfound money quite a lot. It's understandable, but I hope she learns to deal with things in other ways too. The trope that the FL of the novel our MC reincarnated into, is actually an egocentric bitch, that's purposefully stringing several guys along has been seen before. Several times. That part, irks me. Not only does it make all the ML's seem like substanceless dolls with no intelligence or personality, that their romantic feelings can be swayed by something so small as the MC acting like a decent human being. But it's also such a cheap and lazy way, to make the MC stand out and highlight her good points. Like, the concept a story with an MC and the antagonist villainess that stands in the way of her love, had gotten old. Then came the concept of the MC reincarnating into the body of a story's villainess, but it really didn't change anything. All it did was giving the illusion that the roles had reversed, when really it was the same old concept, repackaged. I guess it's easily digestible because it's a familiar format, but it bugs me that these types of stories insists on pitting women against each other...