It’s kinda slop and semi-boring. Our FL protagonist is a childcare worker who reads alot of fairytales to hr kids, particularly fairytales where the evil stepmothers die in order to achieve happily ever after. As she was putting away the book, they fall on her and she transmitigates into the body of a stepmother set to be queen.
There’s no sense of our protagonist knowing in advance what happens as she doesn’t know what story she’s in nor does it matter. As she knows is she’s following the usual trope; she’s a wicked stepmother with a young daughter that she mistreats.
What attempts to make this story stand out is that isekai’d people are an expected norm in this new world and the inhabitants HATE them. They fear them for their tendency of reformation, strange ideals and rapid invention which flips the economy of their world (going as far as to say they cause world annihilation and ruin) and are generally killed on the spot. So even though the FL doesn’t WANT to keep abusing the young princess, especially after learning she’s a very young mute child, she has to in order to stay in character and not get killed.
Of course, she doesn’t REALLY abuse the kid once she’s there. She speaks harshly and encourages rumours to keep her wicked reputation intact but fakes throwing food at the kid to get her to eat, takes her to a dress shop to get her dresses while yelling that she’s ugly and stops the maids from bullying the kid by saying she’ll bully her herself.
The pacing is a bit stilted and nothing much really happens in the first 12 chapters. The art is also pretty mid and the translations are passable but flow pretty monotonously.
The ML is whatever and I have a theory he’s also transmitigated and putting on a cold neglectful persona but I don’t care for him. Just as the OG!Villainess was a genuinely horrid woman, the ML is a terrible dad who has not lifted a finger to help his supposed kid. His right hand man says he’s actually a kind man and I think he’s already sussed out that our FL is isekai’d but that doesn’t change the fact that prior to her, he HASN’T HELPED HIS KID.
It’s kinda slop and semi-boring. Our FL protagonist is a childcare worker who reads alot of fairytales to hr kids, particularly fairytales where the evil stepmothers die in order to achieve happily ever after. As she was putting away the book, they fall on her and she transmitigates into the body of a stepmother set to be queen.
There’s no sense of our protagonist knowing in advance what happens as she doesn’t know what story she’s in nor does it matter. As she knows is she’s following the usual trope; she’s a wicked stepmother with a young daughter that she mistreats.
What attempts to make this story stand out is that isekai’d people are an expected norm in this new world and the inhabitants HATE them. They fear them for their tendency of reformation, strange ideals and rapid invention which flips the economy of their world (going as far as to say they cause world annihilation and ruin) and are generally killed on the spot. So even though the FL doesn’t WANT to keep abusing the young princess, especially after learning she’s a very young mute child, she has to in order to stay in character and not get killed.
Of course, she doesn’t REALLY abuse the kid once she’s there. She speaks harshly and encourages rumours to keep her wicked reputation intact but fakes throwing food at the kid to get her to eat, takes her to a dress shop to get her dresses while yelling that she’s ugly and stops the maids from bullying the kid by saying she’ll bully her herself.
The pacing is a bit stilted and nothing much really happens in the first 12 chapters. The art is also pretty mid and the translations are passable but flow pretty monotonously.
The ML is whatever and I have a theory he’s also transmitigated and putting on a cold neglectful persona but I don’t care for him. Just as the OG!Villainess was a genuinely horrid woman, the ML is a terrible dad who has not lifted a finger to help his supposed kid. His right hand man says he’s actually a kind man and I think he’s already sussed out that our FL is isekai’d but that doesn’t change the fact that prior to her, he HASN’T HELPED HIS KID.
All and all, mind-numbing, inoffensive, boring.