Review Detail of Rivu_Ltr in The Villainess's Dark Side

A one of a kind of historical-romance story that driven by a law of transmigrated character to the ancient Chinese themed novel. The original story is about the main male lead and 2nd lead who fallen in love with transmigrated female characters that appeared to have a unique ability (modern knowledge). However, the villainess who isn't blessed with 'unique' talent much ended with tragedy. The law made her appears 'less appealing' to the male leads as she is 'no different' from ancient ladies at that time. But that is in the memory of the villainess who also had a fragment of modern memory (but useless) as well as original story memories. The story made me realize how I've been rather prejudiced all this time to the non-transmigrated characters. And I came to be attracted to the character who is less blessed and op through this story. It had sent me on the edge as we know the fate befalls on the main character of a story, the villainess. Yet, the story takes to turn into a quite realistic approach of the villainess character. What makes the story engaging is how we could see the villainess is conscious and frustrated with her 'villain role' while fighting her 'fate' to find her happiness. Despite the frustration of her 'role' and less 'unique', the villainess embraces it fully as something that 'not to be ashamed' toward those who looked down. Yet, she is an unshakable character who stays true as a 'villain' to the core as she schemed on the 2nd male lead as an act of revenge in place of her unrequited love (original male lead). Weirdly, the tiny bits of wicked actions are somewhat understandable in a twisted way, which kind of sad. I do dislike her for that but along the way, I empathize with her as she deserved happiness too. And the ignorance of the 'actual' leads toward others is something I resented. I had to say, the author had executed well a rather bittersweet love story that blooms from revenge. It had an efficient emotional build up as the main couple's journey would be more intense as they slowly notice of their blooming emotions that grow from their 'revenge' toward each other. At the same time, a dilemma spurt as the vilainess become more insecure as she have been conscious of her 'role' and 'fate' she had known all along. All in all, the story had successfully designed the villainess perfectly by using 3rd person limited pov. It had me anxious about how 2nd male lead truly thought about her through this pov. Still, his ambiguous dialogue and actions are much more engaging to speculate what he thought.