Spoilers ahead.
I read the raws until vol 30, and I just had to stop. It is so repetitive. Right from the beginning, she meets someone, they either want her or want to kill her, she gets kidnapped a lot of times, other times she does something stupid that gets her taken because she's not vigilant enough/is too gullible. Somehow, she forgives the fact that Isis killed her father, attacked her and her brother, and abandoned her to be a slave in Egypt, she comes to 'love her like a sister.' Even when she finds out Isis colluded to kill her, she still wants to save her.
Bullsh*t.
I still really like the story because the outfits are nice and the guys (Pharaoh and Hittite prince) are hot with amazing hair, and I love some of the Pharaoh's clothes (the all black outfit I get to see him wear twice, for example.) The art style gets a lot better compared to the beginning, which I appreciate. Also, when they're not getting into a fight or Carol is doing something stupid, I do think she and the Pharaoh look cute together.
Because the story is old, I'm giving it a lot of concessions, making a lot of excuses for how dumb everyone is acting (there are very few rational people in this manga, maybe the Pharaoh's prime minister guy and Carol's bodyguard, and even they are questionable at times). I wouldn't mind if someone did a remake of this, though I'm not sure I'd love it with a more 'modern' heroine. If I had to pick a character Carol could emulate, it would be Yona from Akatsuki no Yona (I can't think of anyone else really, I need to check out more good shoujo manga.) A lot of modern heroines just piss me off in a different way, because they're still very similar to Carol. My problem with her, is not that I want her to suddenly turn badass (like the Red River character) I just want her to grow some common sense and some caution.
As of Volume 30, she seems to have picked up two new admirers (along with the Hittite king, nor really a new one but it seems he wants her now, Ishmir/Izumi even let her escape so his father wouldn't get her.)
She did drop back to the present, but she gets held by someone who falls for her (so technically 3 admirers, but once she's back in Egypt/the past he's not really seen there - he did try to hide her from her family and kept kissing her when she was asleep. He's a rich kid with Arabic origins I guess because he wears Arabic clothes(?), but he does get her back to her family before she falls back to the past. Of course, she gets kidnapped first.)
I can picture how Vol 30 would go from the first 50 pages I skimmed, someone else will kidnap her or something and she'll need to be saved again (by one of her 2 new admirers, both obviously respected-looking leaders like all the other major players). The site I went to for the raws has 63 Volumes and I read somewhere in the comments it completes at Vol 83. This whole story could have been concluded in 10 volumes, maybe 20 if you stretch it, because all that happens is she gets into trouble over and over and someone keeps saving her, a bunch of people love her/want her for convoluted reasons and keep trying to own her, the occasional sprinkled in conflict/war, and then the people who want to kill her/get rid of her. Everything is wash, rinse, and repeat from the first chapter. While it is interesting and manages to keep you hooked anyway, I got tired of it after 20 volumes and an extra 10 volumes where I had to guess what was happening. Maybe I should have read a chapter a day instead of binging it.
This will be my last rant over this manga. Definitely.
But...
Huge spoiler
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After a misunderstanding over Memphis and the Libyan princess, she's discovered pregnant when she goes home and miscarries when she's back in Egypt, of course bcz she fell, was still jealous of Memphis and the Princess, went off on her own, got kidnapped, met Isis who tried to kill her again...
My final rant. Honestly.
I understand ur feelings about this shoujo, but please trust me. These translation are wrong. U can see the scan is broken af. Im sure these are just English translation from the illegally scans from Vietnamese publisher. They have been wrongly translate and fix the conversation of characters
on their own desire which leads to misunderstanding. I have read these wrong trans since i was still elementary school, and it affects my belief still then
Trust me, my issue with the story has nothing to do with the translation. I loved it, I read 30 volumes of it after all and the last ten were in Chinese, so I literally had to guess what was happening, which was easy because the story was repeating itself. The issue is that everything just repeats ever and over, it takes several volumes for any significant development to happen, Carol didn't seem to get any better because she kept making dumb decisions that got other people killed.
I just got tired of it, and reading raws was tiring anyway, so I found some spoilers and decided to drop it.
Oh i understand now, thanks for the clear explaination (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
I'm sorry, I really do want to keep reading but I just have to comment on the stupidity of this girl as of ch11. For someone who's lived in a calm 21st century and raised in luxury I'm sure since her family is rich, is she thinking straight?
She thinks its better to go against the pharaoh, who wants to own her, but living as a slave would be the better choice? Because being forced to live in luxury is so much worse than being treated like a dog that does nothing but hard work she's never even attempted? Or does she think slaves do work similar to maids so it'll be simple?
He treated her well, the only thing she didn't get was freedom, but death is better? Wouldn't it have been saner to accept him and trick him so she can run away later?
32 chapters in and I still think she's dumb. She keeps doing stupid things only to end up getting saved. I'm still reading but wow do I want to strangle her.
Of course, she's also loved by everybody. I won't call this cliche though because it's old enough to have come out before anything i've ever read that wasn't for an english lit class, but that is exactly what I'm thinking.
Missing chapters (63-64) Ch65 is also supposed to be further ahead, but chapters are jumbled around ch66-72?
I started from volume 11 just in case, but it should be from 12 (for the missing chaps). It's on this link I found in the comments.
https://m.manhuagui.com/comic/2459/
I skimmed from chapter 50 to the end after going through some of the beginning chapters. Its cute but very cliche. I'm also not a fan of the art, sorry. Even though the setting is ancient Egypt its pretty typical Chinese manhua.
Besides, the setting is surprisingly not interesting to me. I guess my interest in ancient Egypt began and ended with yugioh - and some cartoon I watched as a kid ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Went back and skimmed the whole thing and I guess its cute? Everything from her disappearing the second time to the end wasn't that great though.
Still not a fan of the art, though the colors are pretty, but I did like the Pharaoh's hair and some of his outfits.
I did think long and hard about why I didn't completely like this and I figured it out. Minus the time travel thing, I read a harlequin historical novel with similar plot and a different pharaoh. It did kind of involve magic and time travel but there was no going back and forth and she was from the 17-1800s + there was no recorded history of Egypt for the heroine to draw ideas from.
I read through the first 10 chapters and I have to agree, it's just not interesting to me. The story lays heavily into the romance, particularly teenage romance which is on my opinion unrealistic/childish and annoying. The main pair meet for the first time and are immediately attracted to each other, do not consider it to be love yet are ridiculously jealous and behaving like selfish kids. The FL would've been beheaded ten times over for her insubordinateness. And after she came back we suddenly hear how the brother would like to be more than siblings but is aware that incest is no good. Although I like the ancient Egypt setting it's not enough to keep me entertained
Right? It was too hard for me to take it seriously. Funny enough, I found a manga mentioned in the comments as having a similar premise, Ouke no Monshou. It was made in the 1970s and the main female lead was even more irritating, but I liked that more than I did this because it makes the story setting more interesting.
The story is just so cliche I kept cringing in second hand embarrassment. Even with the setting its like other Chinese manhuas I've read with the domineering guy and the headstrong girl and instant attraction = love. It was cute, it just wasn't that memorable.
Exactly. This seems to be a common theme in Chinese manhuas, maybe that's why I've only read a few of them. I often end up starting one just to quit reading it after a few chapters.
So true, funnily enough chinese BL stories are more interesting than the shoujo counterparts
I have to agree with you =_= I don't give a crap about ancient Egypt and the ML is soo annoying and cliche. I'm not even going to talk about the problems and how dumb the FL.
I'm sorry, but the clothes make it look like they have short necks, particularly the ml. I know its just the high collar outfit but still I keep laughing when I see it.
I loved the story, it was cute even though it was very cheesy, and some parts were funny. But that ending was very abrupt, and am I the only one who thought the fix for the witches curse was way too easy for how important they made it?
Like if Voldermort was set up to be the villain in Harry Potter and he was taken out by a punch from Hermione. The comparison might be extreme but I found the ending anticlimactic.
I am happy that they had their happily ever after, though, and I finally found a complete manga to read so I won't be waiting for more releases.
I liked it, but I'm seeing a trend in these isekai stories where the woman is the protag, but more have her as a side character or originally a villain. If they end up a side character or villain, the original protagonists of that world end up evil or just terrible people. I wish there were more where the fl got her ml and made good with the protagonists, I think I've only seen one out of 40 stories so far. I know if I played a game/read a book and was such a fan that I cared for the main characters, it would feel bad if it turned out they were actually terrible.
So far surviving as the hero's wife is the only side/villain character that I remember, she ends up with the ml of the story, but also ends up as friends with the fl, she isn't made out to secretly be a terrible person. There might have been a second one where the mc ended up with the second ml and made friends with the leads, but I don't remember it well.
I know why it happens, its for the same reason villains appear in books, its to make the leads shine, but I think a story can stand fine without turning the original protagonists into villains so the fl and her ml can shine more.
You are completely right, it gets old really quick to have the female characters being so black and white and always against each other. I recommend the evil lady's hero, the FL and the protagonist of the novel are not exactly friends but their relationship is really interesting and fun, of course they are definitely not enemies lol.
Thanks for the recommendation :) I think I've read like 30-40 of these stories so far so its sad only 2 or 3 have the side character or villain end up as friends with the protagonists or at least doesn't turn the protagonists evil for the mc's sake.
How about beware of the villainess... They're not just friends, the mc is actually the fl's bodyguard hahh its interesting
I'm at ch60 and the cutest charas for me so far are the pretty princess and Bishot with his cute fang tooth.
The humor just isn't my taste (most of the art too) but some parts of the story are funny.
Not even at ch20 and the mc is kinda irritating. the art and story are trying way too hard to be quirky. I know to her this is a novel so she isn't treating them like real people yet, but the way she acts is still irritating. I'm just not a fan of over the top characters.
According to other comments though this is good so I'll keep reading for now (I'm mostly skimming though, the start was way too slow.)
I've also read so many isekai'd into a novel heroine stories that it is completely predictable how everything will go.
Bruh, if you don't like this type of slow paced story with a quirky main character, then don't read it.
I said the mc was irritating I never said I hated the story. Because she was irritating at first I just couldn't enjoy it with the slow start.
Its my opinion. You could have ignored my comment and you chose not to.
That's right. I chose not to. I took all my stress out on you and I apologize for that.
If it makes you feel any better I do think the story gets better. I'm just not a fan of quirky troll characters.
Haha. It's alright. Normally, I would have just respected other people's opinions, but it's been really stressful these past few days and I just happened to find your comment. It was totally my fault.
For me..
The slow paced of the initial chapters have a huge impact of how Latte is being treated in the story..
Like, she is a side and easy-to-forget character at best. She is not the prettiest or have an unique ability that she could boast for to be well-noticed. She is really just a passing character if she did not push herself to be more involved on the story...
I love the pacing of this story cause it is really a realistic one.. It is not a easy kiss and fall in love one.. It is built carefully and wholesomely..
This might felt quite dragged because of how the extras do interact more than main cast and the comedy is much emphasized but it is still being balanced out
I don't mind the slow start or the slow pace of the story. To me it just looked like she was fooling around at the beginning, it wouldn't change much of the plot if it was cut down either. Its mostly there for the comedy.
As much as a story that jumps from falling into a novel world and going straight into the plot with no explanation can be irritating because they're too fast and tend to have a lot of information dumped at the beginning chapters, this didn't interest me, either.
Then MC decided to stalk the protagonists to have fun at their expense. This is normal for a reader, and she didn't consider them real people at the time, but they were real people at that time. Her first and succeeding interactions with Kenneth in particular were not very funny to me. They were frustrating.
I just couldn't enjoy the MC's personality in the beginning or all of the references.
I get why people are surprised so many others feel sorry for the psycho guy. I haven't even read the webtoon yet but I can figure it out, plenty if people like messed up characters because the best part is always the redemption arc. Sometimes they even outshine the rest of the story, at least for me.
It was cute up until the thing with the sister. I'm sorry but I really want her to die.