Mar 14, 2025
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
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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.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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