If you’re looking for a villainess novel where the female lead reincarnates and lives swimmingly thanks to all of the past memories, all while making friends along the way, and being revered by the world as an angel descended from above, then I fear you’ve picked up the wrong novel. This novel is DARK and is not for the faint of heart. Lumielle is the unfortunate antihero of the novel. She was born in a world where she was a little girl thrust into the cold castle along with her younger brother and left abandoned with no one to care for them let alone care about them. Yet that was merely the beginning of the terrible life for Lumielle. As she navigates through the everyday struggles to survive from what to eat to how to sustain themselves financially, she encounters people who thrive on making their miserable lives even more unpleasant. While the novel contains the cheating fiancé who fell in love with the white lotus trope, the author does not make romance a strong role in the plot. This isn’t about love. This story is about survival. It’s about palace intrigue, magic, and blood. There will be blood. There will be hands covered in blood. Lumielle’s hands will be covered in blood. She’s not a Disney Princess, so be warned. This novel is a beautifully composed dark work of art. Each sentence is dripping in vivid depictions of the magnificent world Saemi’s created. The characters are unique and have an abundance of depth. If there is any negative criticism of this work it would be the lengthy wait time in between chapters. However, it takes wine a while for it to be fine. Thus it is better to patiently await for the master to work on their craft.
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