Lord Baby Runs a Romance Fantasy With Cash

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Synonyms: Miss Baby Runs a Fantasy Romance With Cash

Japanese: 아기님 캐시로 로판 달린다

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Type: Manhwa

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Jun 30, 2023 to ?

Genres: Fantasy, Romance

Theme: Isekai

Serialization: KakaoPage

Authors: Ju, Haeon (Story), Kirin (Art)

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Score: 7.46¹ (scored by 506 users)

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Ranked: #3266²

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Popularity: #9264

Members: 2,126

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Synopsis

An avid romance fantasy fan falls victim to a demon's schemes after her death; and instead of being reborn as a wealthy heroine, she awakens as a small, sickly child. Abandoned by her father, Duke Phaeraton, the little girl is doomed to scrub floors and suffer abuse at the hands of her egomaniacal relatives until the day the duke returns from the war to collect her.

When the fateful day finally arrives, the girl is certain her misfortunes will continue as she leaves with the cold-hearted duke. Even though she now has a luxurious home and an expressionless father who still wants her to live like a noble, there are rumors that claim she is not truly the duke's daughter. Moreover, a mysterious status window appears before her, allowing her to borrow powers from her favorite romance fantasy heroines and earn cash to survive—unless her cuteness wins her father over first.

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Lord Baby Runs a Romance Fantasy With Cash has been published digitally in English by Tapas Media since December 26, 2023.

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Mar 14, 2025

red-artist

Not Recommended

Preliminary (25/? eps)

A generic childcare series, that hides its lack of creativity with bland meta humor.

Plot
FL (a RoFan addict) dies in an accident and is invited by a supernatural entity to be reincarnated into RoFan (Otome Isekai genre ) story with a handsome dad, handsome brothers and a special power. She's born as the daughter of the duke, who was raised at her maternal uncle's home and is abused by said uncle (and his daughter) for child labor. Duke returns from war in second chapter, takes back his child (FL) and we enter the "heal the trauma" phase of childcare story.

Review
To be honest, this is ... one of those series which start with a great hook and turn into the run-of-the-mill filler after barely 2 chapters. It's like food that smells delightful, but tastes like plain rice.

First, lets talk about the setting. The angel/devil that makes a reincarnation contract with our FL is kinda mysterious. FL doesn't know the future, as this is a new story. She is granted a special "system", which grants her quests that reward points on success. Then, she can redeem the points to use the powers of any heroine from any RoFan novel that she read. But we never see anything interesting done with that idea. It only exists for the author to use it as a plot device to move the story forward (eg: solo leveling). I can only assume that the angel/devil is writing a new story, and uses our FL as heroine. And whenever the story gets boring, he will give FL quests to make the story more spicy/interesting.

Second, we have our FL. She was supposed to be a RoFan addict, but fails to even recognize the most basic tropes. It feels insulting because she only uses her knowledge for the same jokes that we already have seen in memes (how all main characters are cold dukes of the north with black hair and red eyes etc..). We are stuck in an awkward place, where FL wants to be seen as a badass who uses her knowledge/power, but she is also somehow still an innocent child with a tragic past (for all of 4 years btw). She just comes off as an incompetent character.

Third, lets talk about the abuse. Because it makes no goddamn sense. The duke has to go to war and leaves the child with his wife's brother. So, this guy, not only pockets child support and gives FL's expensive gifts sent by duke to his daughter instead, but also makes 3-year old FL work as a maid to "earn" her food. He verbally abuses her, telling her that she's a child born out of affair (of his sister ffs), she's abandoned by duke for being unable to use magic etc.. So, all of this leads to one question. Why? only ymir knows. Because I cannot understand his endgame plan. He was a villain, just for the sake of giving our FL a "tragic" backstory, so that the future childcare manhwa can heal all that trauma.

All of this is not to say that it is garbage. There's some decent comedy and lots of fluffy childcare vibes. The art is great with lots of meme-ish panels. But, at the end of the day, it all just feels like the same generic filler with not actual characters/plot. We get teased with plenty of mysteries like the war, the magic, the brothers, the mother, the identity of duke's bloodline, the mysterious angel/devil at the beginning etc.., but for 25 chapters, we barely make any progress on any of those plot threads. I'm fine with reading fluffy childcare manhwa, but it's all the teasing of those other plot-threads, which makes me think that we will see "more", but all we get is more filler fluff.

Overall
There's nothing new here. If you like childcare, you will find plenty of fluff. Even if the story *seems* to be more than that, keep your expectations in check or you will end up disappointed like me.

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Jun 16, 2024

ShinduOwO

Not Recommended

Preliminary (27/? eps)

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TLDR: The author uses the system as a deus ex machina, her powers are nearly useless and she doesn't even use them, or uses them in a completely inconsequential way (at least up to this point), and her knowledge of RF (romantic fantasy) novels doesn't come into play at all.

~~ Spoilers from this point on ~~

Deus ex machina issue:
The author very much likes to assign mandatory missions to the protagonist using the system. Mandatory as in, either do it or die. Apart from that, early on, as a penalty for failing a quest, MC starts losing control of her body randomly, in those instances, she ... behaves like a regular baby. The author uses both of these things to make MC behave like she wouldn't normally and force the plot to progress in certain ways.

Powers:
MC's promised powers manifested in form of a system, which she can use to buy powers of protagonists of RF novels she read before. However, if there are multiple powers, only one will be extracted at random, there are limits to number of uses and even the powers themselves can be massively weakened because of system's whim.

Knowledge of RF novels:
From the beginning, MC isn't able to recognize even the most basic tropes when they actually matter, only using the knowledge she was supposed to have to show that the author is self-aware that his work isn't really groundbreaking, like making jokes about her father, the duke, being the "classic emotionless duke of the north". In my opinion, her knowledge of novels was added solely because the author needed it for the power system to work, since it doesn't have impact on the story in any other way.

Here's the premise of the arc containing MC's first usage of powers with as little spoilers as possible:
MC gets a quest from the system asking her to get revenge, with the penalty being increased probability of losing control of her body randomly. MC decides to accept the quest and uses the system to acquire new power allowing her to read target's emotions and thoughts. However, the power has only five uses lasting three hours, and gets downgraded to only reading emotions because "This is a dropped novel and the system isn't familiar with it". The power itself ends up being completely useless anyway, and the author just uses it to show just how mad the revenge target is using some poor jokes.

It looks like the author wants to have the cake and eat it, so he uses deus ex machina to achieve it.
- MC is a reincarnated adult, but she doesn't behave and think like one 90% of the time. When she actually would behave like one and the author doesn't want her too, he just makes use of the penalty system making her lose control of her body and act like a regular child.
- MC "read thousands of RF novels", which is used to make use of her power, but is incapable of actually recognizing tropes when they matter. A prime example of that can be seen at the very beginning - MC is abused by her uncle and her cousin, and she says that if this was a novel, her cousin would obviously be the beloved protagonist. So the obvious protagonist of a romantic fantasy novel is someone abusing their cousin on daily basis, and not the abused cousin, who is daughter of a powerful duke?

In conclusion, everything in this story seems kind of forced and I wouldn't recommend it, but if you just want to read something with a cute girl as a protagonist then it isn't the worst choice.