This is not a villainess story. Read the first chapter and make a decision: are you hooked to the premise to give it a chance?

This is a redemption story; a second chance where the biggest difference is the replacement of apathy with empathy. Previous life's knowledge does serve a purpose, but it isn't the main focus/intention of this work. It's more about valuing what really matters, being honest about it, and importantly -> showing trust by allowing yourself to be vulnerable to those you hold dearly.

Chapter 1 demonstrates all this inversely as Ms. Main Character never properly communicated, was never honest and had her guard soooooo high up to the degree that not even her own son thought she loved him.


Not to suggest that this work is soft-hearted. Because she is willing to take these risks, she has to deal with them and things will happen. A nice touch is that this work doesn't exactly waste your time. In the 120 chapters, I feel like maybe 5 chapters were superfluous <- and even then, it was spent explaining stuff that didn't need explaining. With that said, it isn't a big deal because this is a completed work.

Characters are well written and you'll find yourself hating the ones you're supposed to hate - easy goal tbh -> but, and this is more impressive, you'll like the characters you're supposed to like. One character in specific was always doing a balancing act between "do I like this guy? I know I'm supposed to, but hmmm" -> and in the final chapter, he freakin' jumps off the bar, does a sick kick flip off a skateboard he pulled out of nowhere, spun around three times and perfectly landed in the "yeah, okay. He's pretty cool and I like this guy" side. lol

Overall, 8/10. Pretty great.

Nice job, Vlemir.

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Yeah, no kidding.... I'd be stressed out too. He has zero margin for error. If they get pissed, he'd get absolutely erased.

For a moment there, I thought the lore was gonna drop a "she always had twins but lost one" on us, but nope... good thing too, that would've ruined some things.

Well, the first chapter was an absolute disaster of a timeline, but one constant held true: she did all she did because she loved him. She miserably failed to communicate that and he never understood it, but it is still true that she loved him.

Seven Deadly Sins
Pride
also known as Vanity

Thing is, to be happy with your - or someone's - actions... to be proud of someone or yourself... this is one thing. There is nothing wrong with self-worth.

The problem is that, like all things -> too much of anything is a bad thing. Too much pride and it turns to vanity. Being proud is different from being vain.

And this idiot is so vain that she's blind and trapped in her own head.
Sure, if you bring it up, she can ramble and yap on and on and on until you fall asleep, but she's doing nothing more than convincing herself. Self-justification is incredibly important to... well, almost everyone, and some people can do it effortlessly, which is dangerous.
"I can't become a laughing stock like this."
Lady, take a moment to breathe for like two freakin' nanoseconds and answer me a simple question: WHO IS LAUGHING? Other than you, I mean.

Oh for crying out loud... I got baited and I fell for it, HARD! I genuinely had the thought of "wow, the emperor is somewhat starting to become a normal human being!"

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand then the rest of the chapter happened.

Seriously, this emperor just sees people's usefulness and nothing else. He has not changed whatsoever.

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IFRIT
or was it Ignis?

ANYWAY THE FIRE SPIRIT IS BACK BABY!

Turns out, he really is Archmage Suck! He used underhanded methods AND had no chance in a million!

When the final boss of the dungeon is too weak.
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Bro,
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He really thinks he's gonna get that, huh?

To be honest, if Zhou Fan can use you, he'll probably pay you with that set after getting some use out of you... But if not, then you're more likely to die.

Dad hit the bullseye on the guess that they're having twins.

I am curious what the old man's end goal is... and if he'd turn on Zhou Fan if he decides to leave later on...

Also, I dunno how ya'll pronounce "Zhou Fan." I just recently learned that "Zh" is pronounced "J."
I don't like transliteration/romanization of Chinese names to English because it's nearly impossible to know how to pronounce stuff correctly just by looking at them. Also see:
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Why am I bringing this up? Well, APPARENTLY "Zhou" is effectively pronounced as "Joe." Have a nice day.

I'm seeing these candles and I'm thinking of the candles Mr. Main Character found in the water -> that formed whirlpools, trapping people. Hmm...

lol! I see it.

A completed work that I looked into. 10 chapters in and I can confirm that this is, without any shred of doubt -> a complete comedy. A clownfest that starts off without taking anything seriously -> and maintains that pretty well.

You might question "it took you how many chapters to get to that conclusion? It's obvious from chapter ONE!" Well, I gave it the benefit of the doubt as some works try to took people in with dumb comedy in the first chapter or two -> and then start picking things up.

But nah. It doesn't happen; it's comedy and literal memes:
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Also, Mr. Main Character is 15 years old which... sigh...

Nice armor.
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Did your daddy get it for you?
heh

Can confirm this has reached at least chapter 349.
I can add that it is incomplete aaaaaaaaand I can also say that as far as I can tell, it hasn't updated in almost a year.

Hiatus? Discontinued (translation)? I dunno.

Overall, for a cultivation manhua, it is... fine. General run-of-the-mill quality for this genre.