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I couldn’t wait and read the entire webnovel which you can find here:
https://americanfaux.com/completed-translations/now-that-im-dead-are-you-satisfied/
It was a rather easy read, aside from Day 1 which I felt dragged way too long. I don’t blame it for being like that though, since Day 1 is alot of set up.
I enjoyed the karma which came for what it is. It might vary for you whether everyone gets what they fully deserve. Some got more extreme punishments than others. For example, the dad goes to jail while the prince gets disowned as royalty, demoted to a count with debt, banished to another land and made a royal vassal, but otherwise still healthy and still in a decently high position. And I don’t think the mother got a good enough punishment to be honest.
Surprisingly, only one person manages to redeem themselves and that’s the merchant Lorona was working with, who managed to get his head out of his ass halfway through and only lost half his earnings nearly hastily taking a shady deal but otherwise ended up fine and remorseful.
And speaking of remorse, some of the characters actually feel REMORSE. There is a flavour of horrid characters being so self absorbed that they don’t realise why everything is going wrong. But in the novel at least, some of them actually realise their ruin was nothing but the sum of their choices.
To be honest, I am torn with the Prince and Lorona getting together. At the end of the novel when the prince and her family accountant find Lorona alive, the Prince tells Lorona that everyone moved on and that it’s better to not reveal herself back home otherwise she’ll disrupt their adjusted lives. It’s a white lie with good-ish intentions because he knows that Lorona is the type to try and save a sinking ship like she always has. But other comments say that it’s scummy of him because that takes away some of Lorona’s control to make a decision entirely on her own, especially with the way he frames it in his head; he knows eventually Lorona will find out anyway the truth of how everyone took her death but thinks by the time she finds out, he would’ve “made her his” and it wouldn’t matter anymore. But some like a good-intentioned manipulator, so take it how you will.
Either way, good read, good time. Satisfied,