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27 Nov 2020

Plot: Deposed Empress of a protagonist is displaced to her 10-year old self, and devotes all her time and effort to not be completely in love with her asshole fiance of an Emperor this time. In the process she gets closer to people she valued in her previous life, and also makes a few new friends.

1. It's interesting to note that the actual world traveler from Earth is the woman who replaces the plot position (female lead to emperor) of the protagonist here, which is an interesting take on PoV. The protagonist also starts off as an Ice Queen, which appeals to my tastes. Her determination to do better in this life and her hatred and anger and fear of her ex-husband she still may have feelings for are pretty well done too. Less enthusiastic about every guy in the vicinity falling hard for her as soon as she becomes less of an ice queen. Let me have my relentless Ice Queens please why can I not keep them. But I guess at least she is nowhere near as saccharine as some of the other girl reincarnated into younger body stories?

2. I'm not a huge fan of multiple love interests battling over the same person, so that series of subplots makes me want to roll my eyes. However, every love interest is an interesting person with a distinctive personality, so it could be a lot worse. Carsein is fairly straightforward (shonen hero), but I would have liked to see more of Allendis being an asshole because that's way more interesting than the image of perfection he shows our heroine Tia. The Emperor-to-be (ie, Tia's asshole Ex) is not an interesting person on his own but his role in the plot (being VERY CONFUSED as to why this fiance he's been perfectly nice to thinks goes into actual shock when he's around) is fun.

3. The pathos of the old life adds an element of plot urgency to this story that I didn't find in the last few manhwas I tried reading. And while there is plenty of fluff, there's also enough character and plot progression in here to not make the whole thing collapse like a cake made entirely of whipped cream.

4. It also features a low-key Dad-Daughter relationship that is very adorable and it is a Weakness so...