I has some plot twists which you didn't expect, realistic non-perfect FL and really cute devoted ML, just I don't like art, it looks messy and that authors didn't add epilogue 17 with child's name.

• Interesting start

FL has already been in new world for years
Friends that grow apart
Breaking and rebuilding an untrusting relationship with ML
Addresses FL’s fear of ML

• Slow burn romance
• Plot is not what FL re
• Plot twist (ML was actually the villain)
• Unrequited loves (original FL with original ML)
• He falls first
• FL (of book) becomes friends with current FL
• Not predictable fluff (eg. FL’s family adores her or people quickly ire/like her for no reason)
• Altered memories. Visions?
• Black magic, holy water and artefacts, potions
• Characters with surprises and flaws

🧣🛡️Durua Valrose (FL. Original villainess)

family who want her happiness is marriage
smart, measured, not overly happy or serious

🪻🖤 Nocturne Edgar (ML. Original villain)

Lonely, prone to violence. Black mage
He changes for her
Obsessive love. Is addressed in plot.
Family (mother. Ambitious) trying to kill him

🍂 🗡️Aaron Claymore (original ML)

knight. Honourable. Chasing first love.

🧵✨ Alice Rimorande (original FL)

can see the future. Rags to riches.

CONTENT WARNING
Blood, assassination attempts, verbal abuse by parent, human experimentation, death, suicide, suicide ideation, infidelity, some underlying homophobia (eg. Saying someone Bi-sexual to imply they are more promiscuous to embarrass them), sex (implied), paranoia, psychosis,

Just got bored

Having read literally a couple hundred isekai manhwa I have come to accept that finding a good one is like searching for a needle in a haystack. They just don’t come by often and it’s really a toxic relationship that I still continue to read them.

However this one is definitely one of the better ones out there. I saw a lot of complaints almost halfway into the story that the FL was insufferable and annoying and that’s usually one of the defining faults of a comic, but she was written well enough where I couldn’t even blame her actions. It was all justified although she made mistakes and that’s why we have character DEVELOPMENT, yes not all of our heroes are going to be perfect from the start. The odds were stacked up against her and it was not strange at all that she should be wary of the ML, and then as the mystery unfolds and they spend more time together to heal their relationship we start to sympathize with her even more.

Speaking of which, the mystery in this story is confusing and deserves a reread of earlier parts, but I really think that those are the best kinds of mysteries. The ones where you have to read it all over again to gain a new light. Not that the mystery was the golden touch of this story or that it compares to mystery story-telling legends, but it was enough to keep me engaged and there wasn’t enough information to guess what was truly going on. The female lead from the start was mistaken and unreliable as a narrator and so it was incredibly interesting to see my own point of view of the other characters as she learned more about them. All of the characters made mistakes, hence the title, and they fought and made up and proved that they weren’t just cardboard cutouts pretending to be human which is already rare enough in this genre.

I think people were also quick to forget to what the ML had done. And very understandably he had his reasons, but that doesn’t change how questionable his actions still were.

Thinking that you had manipulated someone for years, and then them finding out completely justifies why Durua was scared of Nocturne I mean come on. Not to mention that in her memories he had been cold and indifferent and why would she believe off of that that he cared about her? Suddenly turn around and say that she’s special to him and while they are making direct statements, they weren’t explaining anything and truly having a conversation to clear the air. Of course they misunderstood each other, Nocturne had no idea what was going on Durua’s side either!

But he apologized and made up for it and proved that everything he did was for her, and it would always be that way.

As for the romance which was obviously the star of the show; it was very sweet. You couldn’t help but root for them to trust each other, and then revisiting their childhood was so cute but also very sad. It was so gratifying to see Durua slowly start to regain her trust in Nocturne and acknowledge that she had always liked him and still did.

This should be more popular than it is.

Worth every penny for me on tappytoon

I really wanted to keep going with this story, but God the drama is needless and just drags. No one wants to communicate and someone still fall for each other and it's dumb. There's a good story here but it's covered by bad writing decisions.

This series is extremely well done! I'm really glad I took a chance and ignored the comments telling me not to read it. It does a great job of leading you to think this is a decent but somewhat standard isekai, then has a great twist a few chapters in that surprised me in the best way! There is even a decent amount of foreshadowing, so the twist is not just sprung out of nowhere. It comes from subverting expectations that this subgenre tends to encourage. They are not bad expectations - and when done well can be really fun - but it is really interesting to have this webtoon author recognize these tropes, make you think they're being done, then place something else there instead. A bit like how the love interests (and other things) are handled in "Miss Not-So-Sidekick."

This is a really interesting story, and after the twist it is revealed just how clever the author is. Please give this series a try on mangago

This isn't the typical fluff Isekai, where the FL always make best and most reasonable choice and everything magically works out, and I think a lot of people missed the point of the story, especially those piling on the FL once the ML's backstory is revealed. The whole point is to show that the world isn't black and white. There are rarely true villains or even true heroes. There is no undeniable right or wrong, so stop judging Durua so harshly.
Is the FL perfect? No, but how are readers taking the moral high ground and nitpicking that she approached the ML with false pretense of trying to save her own neck, especially when he its to her face that he tried to mind control her? Also, she was straight forward with him, directly asking what he wanted from her and why he treated her the way she did. HE was the one who wasn't ready to explain, WHICH IS FINE, but she is not at fault for acting defensive and wary of him after how he has treated her.
Yes, the ML has a tragic backstory. Is he a villain? No, but his actions without that context (and even some with context) look manipulative, cold, and sociopathic. And originally, many readers side with the FL without that context, but then turn on her when they find out ML's childhood traumas EVEN THOUGH SHE HERSELF still does not know what the readers now do. Neither the argued age difference nor his past traumas means the FL or anyone is obligated to stick around when he tries to strip them of their self autonomy.

If the story focused solely on the ML I'd have given it a higher rating as I find his story far more more entertaining then any of the other 3 characters.

Alice is annoying, simply not agreeing with her puts you on her blacklist. The FL is a hypocrite, she condemns others for the things they do or did when she was no different from all the other nobles who saw the ML as a child and wanted to take advantage of him, the only difference is she got away with it b.c he couldn't read her. The FL and Alice also have a bad habit of not respecting others choices, they whine about how the males won't tell them their secrets yet I don't hear Alice telling her friends about her past life, nor do I hear the FL telling her friends about reincarnation.

The entire book runs on miscommunication. Characters are trying to talk things through and people are either misunderstanding what they are being told or are being so emotional that the conversation breaks down. The ML's story is interesting and the author was smart to make the story follow him, I would recommend this book but I would warn that after 60 chapters none of the misunderstandings have been resolved.

dropped the incomprehensible fan translation(s?) a while back. the official translation is consistent and the story is okay, but i can't stay engaged. i think the mechanics of how the dual time periods are explored is where it loses me: not that i can understand it, i just don't care enough to keep reading.