Dec 10, 2024
What was already a rather thinly-held-together story has become entirely unreadable at this point, and I find myself with no desire to continue any further.
If you need a quick TL;DR: it's your by-the-books 'reincarnated into a villainess, a bunch of stupid stuff happens' story with some occasional nice fluff that is largely overshadowed by the annoyances of the rancid tropes of the genre. If I never have to see another love triangle that isn't really a love triangle and is instead a source of extra chapters that add quite literally nothing to the story, I will not have missed a thing of this world. ...
Credit where credit is due, first: unlike quite a few FMC of this genre, this one has not swayed even once in her simping over the past 44 chapters. If every other FMC took a page out of her book, I'd be incredibly happy. She is wholly devoted to the main lead, through and through, and remains entirely unshakable to this chapter. I'm not entirely certain that will remain so, however, as the last 10ish chapters or so indicate rather heavily the shitstorm of drama that's coming might just devolve her into yet another brainlet that walks around getting wet whenever any male character looks at her funny. Again, in the chapters that I've read, she remained steadfast, and is largely the best part of the entire story to be honest, a rarity in this genre.
So, why am I dropping it? The already-foreshadowed shitstorm of drama that's been bubbling on the horizon. Most of the story focuses almost exclusively on 2 characters--FMC & MC. While side characters pop in here and there to share their thoughts and make it seem like there's more to this world than the love story, they are largely inconsequential and only ever truly used as plot devices to either keep the story moving forward or to introduce secondary drama (i.e. brother & father who supposedly adore FMC entirely ignoring her wishes at every corner because, well, otherwise there'd be no drama). When the story is JUST about FMC & MC, it's entirely serviceable--nothing to write home about, mind you, but there's enough fluff, tenderness, and decent romance in there that I was actually enjoying it. Everything else surrounding the two, however, is absolutely putrid.
Secondary MC, especially, has entirely marred the story to the point I'm dropping it completely. Another point that I 'cleverly foreshadowed' are the love triangles that aren't love triangles--this guy stands NO chance. He will not win. I'm willing to bet my savings on that fact. However, he has occupied at least 50% of the screen time in the past 10 chapters or so, and it seems that will continue to be the trend going onwards. He is entirely inconsequential outside of just being a secondary lead. I hate this trope. His entire existence had to be bent like a steel pipe with bare hands in order to shove him where he doesn't belong, and not only did it not improve the story, it demolished it.
Similarly, most every other female character is so sporadically present after a certain point that they, too, are entirely inconsequential. The author dedicated a good chunk of the story to developing FMC & MC, and those parts were fairly decent, but it also came at the expense of developing any of the side characters. None of them matter, not really, even if at first it might seem like they do. Like that Saintess, whose coquettish behavior early on seems like it would play a massive role throughout the story--nope. She don't matter. I don't think she's showed up in the story in the past 20 chapters.
I will say that, despite me not recommending this and giving it a low grade, this is one of the better stories in the genre. I mostly never even add them to the 'read list', let alone give a review, just because of how low quality these things get. So, if you're a fan of the genre who rarely drops these stories, I imagine you'll be guzzling this thing like cold water in a scalding desert.
Me? I'll keep searching for my oasis that won't give me nausea as I read it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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