Omg this story kicks!!!

I can't quite remember what happens around 55, but the answer is yes and no?
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Short answer:
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You’re right, Aria’s evilness is spiteful. It also never changes, but it also does change. She is the primary narrator of the story, BUT she is an unreliable narrator because she is very emotionally damaged by her past trauma of being misled and betrayed. She struggles with these issues for a long time in her current timeline too. She is unreliable because she doesn’t understand herself or her potential to be good, and so is convinced that she is evil and bad and this is what she tells the reader and herself. While in a lot of other stories, a traumatic past plays into gathering sympathy for the character, for Aria, it adds to he own conviction that, “Of course I’m evil.” She is convinced she is evil, and so the only reason she went back to the past is to use her nefarious personality to further expose other evil. Mielle represents all fakeness and evil in the story’s society.
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Aria completely accepts that she is evil and so this is her fate and purpose; she’d be happy to even die as long as it brings Mielle down. However, throughout the story, Asher slowly convinces her that her humble past, thirst for revenge, and evil character doesn’t actually make her a bad person- it just makes her a strong and capable person who has what it takes to get things done. He shows her that, even if she thinks she’s evil, she’s ultimately doing it to expose other evil which is GOOD.
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As Asher teaches Aria to love herself and embrace her evilness through condoning her actions, she begins to learn self-love, self-acceptance, and how to accept love from other people. Through accepting love from people like Asher, Jessie, and Sarah, Aria learns that she doesn’t have to be a “good person” to receive love, and that she can actually use her evil personality to RETURN love and show love. She uses her “evil capabilities” to punish other bad people and uplift the people who are good to her. This capability, to do good through evil, is what Asher loves about her, and recognizes in her before she does. Like, he recognizes this, and through HIM we see this in Aria, but I don’t think Aria recognizes this in herself until very late in the book.
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So, she stops being "evil" to people who are good. She never acts selfishly in the beginning of the book, only acting to advance her revenge rather than herself, but later in the book, she becomes selfish where "selfish" means, "acting for the best interest of her supporters." So she doesn't love herself at the beginning of the book and doesn't receive love. But at the end of the book, she loves herself through the people who love her and becomes MORE "evil" to viciously defend them and their happiness which she finally accepts as her own happiness.
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I hope this helped explain how the story is setting her up and where it is going

That is fucking beautiful dude, did you thought about writing a story with deep character development? Because you understand it so perfectly that now I, too understand her character better

OMG your comment is so kind. I just felt a really deep connection with Aria about how some traits in people can be seen as negative or bad, but it all goes back to how you use them and for whom you are using them. For me, even as a native english speaker, the slightly rocky translation on wuxia made this character arc a bit muddled at times, but I feel like it will be interesting to see how her inner thoughts and this deep character development will be executed as a webtoon. I hope it comes across more clearly than the fan translation because I have stored this novel close to my heart in such a short time and hope other people can enjoy it the same way!

Thank you!!!