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When You’re in Love had been such a long ride for me. Not only because the story pace doesn’t make it feel like you read only seventy chapters, but because when I first started reading it back in December of 2024, I accidentally closed the tab during my finals week and only came to realize it long after — when I had completely forgotten the title or how I had found it in the first place.

But although I had forgotten the title, the angsty plot stayed in my mind and I spent months trying to find it again — what only happened a few days ... ago and honestly, I don’t know if I am glad I managed to find this manhwa once again.

At first, it seems like any other Isekai. The female lead found herself in the world of a novel she had once read as Lila Violet, a commoner who was kidnapped by a family of aristocrats and forced to live by the name of Helena, their deceased daughter.
In the original novel Lila — as Helena, went to the monastery as her last resort after so many years of abuse by the aristocratic family and that’s where she met Grace, the mother of the male lead, Aslan Thordel.
After Grace’s death, Helena proposed a marriage of convenience to Aslan solely to disturb him as she thought he had abandoned his mother at the monastery due to his greed, but she ended up learning he was actually a kind person and fell in love with him when it was already too late and lamented it.

What I liked about When You’re in Love is how both of the characters were aware of their past timeline.
Aslan knew about Lila in this timeline even before they came to met all because of a dream and so he chased after her — already changing the succession of events from the original novel. However, the miscommunication here is surreal.
I do understand Lila being aware of Aslan as in the original novel, he traded her for another woman, Rosaline, bringing her to the manor and marrying her shortly after their divorce, but the rest?!
Aslan always claimed to be in love with her, from the original novel plotline to the current one, but he was always so cold towards her that it was unbearable. And although he was doing everything to revenge her and end the aristocratic family that kidnapped her, he never once told her this.
The amnesia arc caught me almost dropping this (again), especially because Aslan’s first reaction was to trust Rosaline first, proposing to her before even trying to talk to Lila.

The manhwa makes a one-hundred-eighty turn after they finally start communicating, which could have changed my score, but then the author started to drag the plot unnecessarily, changing the original novel plotline so much that it feels like they lived three timelines not only two.

I do understand why many people dropped it. Aside from the small moments where Aslan demonstrated to love Lila, from buying anything she wanted to even having her real name engraved on his wedding ring, the plot is too repetitive and full of miscommunication. The villains can’t be considered a real threat. And it’s for those who love to suffer — and well, I am not.

Flirting With The Villain’s Dad had been an adorable surprise to me.

Differently from the other Isekai, our main girl doesn’t find herself being transmigrated to the story of a novel she once had read, but rather, she was transmigrated to a story she once had read twenty years before the actual plot — when the original main characters haven’t even been born. So the only way she found to deter the tragic enroll of events was to prevent the birth of the villain by, well, flirting with his father, Euredian, the emperor of Bellecourt, and prevent his convenient marriage with Soleia, a powerful yet dark ... magician who was not only the future mother of the villain but the cause of his problematic mindset.

Honestly, it was really adorable at the start. It had just the right amount of comedy plus the romance was on point. I loved seeing Yerenika’s efforts to enchant Euredian, and it was beautiful to see him slowly falling in love with her and becoming so protective. The issue with this manhwa and what makes me unsure if it is a possible recommendation is that when the conflict finally broke, it became boring and tiring. The author dragged it out for chapters and chapters — giving us no real progress. And the lack of communication between Yerenika and Euredian became so messed up during this part that even Euredian himself questioned if he should trust Yerenika as an ally in the final warfare.

But unnecessary drama aside, Flirting With The Villain’s Dad has one of the greatest world-building I have seen in manhwas. The plot didn’t feel half-thought and the magic system made sense — which was such a relief, especially because Your Ultimate Love Rival was my last read.

I would say it’s a read for those who love simp main love interest but don’t care about lack of communication between couples and slow-paced conflicts.

If I were to rate Your Ultimate Love Rival in the first chapters, I would have given it a solid ten. However, as the story progressed, the plot slowly yet certainly turned into a mess.

The existence of mages, spirits, demons, and gods is a nice branch — if the author knows how to use them correctly, but it, unfortunately, wasn’t the case.

When we look at the big picture, Your Ultimate Love Rival sounds just as interesting as any other Isekai. The story followed Heeso, an average Korean woman who gets transmigrated as Irene Amber — the character of a novel with a tragic end. ... Heeso quickly realized that she (as Irene) was supposed to change the novel’s end and save not only herself, but the original female lead, Claudia, and her brother, Felix Chamberlain.

Although overused, it’s a plot that I can’t grow tired of and the problem with this manhwa was the small details.

The story started by introducing us to the three original male leads — who were, in fact, possessive and disturbing men who did anything to get Claudia at the end of the original novel — from small courting to kidnapping her and even trying (and spoiler ahead: succeeding) to make Felix’s body be taken by a demon. It would have made sense if it were a single male lead, but three? And the three of them working together when their objective was the same — have Claudia for themselves? It didn’t make sense to me.
Not to mention that Duke Lemberg was the strongest among them — even having a pact with a demon, so why would he need to rely on the weak prince and the unloyal priest?
And again, mages and magic are not an issue to me. I actually love some Romantasy. I loved that Felix was a mage, but Claudia and the pact with the spirits was so random and with no big utility at all. The Magic Island plot felt like coming from a different manhwa and the worst part is that the author didn’t explain anything about it at all.
Their plans were another thing that was never explained, they were suddenly doing something big as rebelling against their prince and it’s treated as if readers were supposed to understand and know what’s going on.

I read a comment around chapter 30 that said: “It seems like they keep adding random plots and hoping for the best” and I think there’s no better way to describe Your Ultimate Love Rival’s plotline.

Honestly, if it weren’t for the amazing art and Felix, it would have been a manhwa that I would have quickly dropped. However, Felix took my heart. Not only for being an amazing brother in the original story and the one Irene changed but for the green flag he is.
In the beginning, we believe that he is a yandere, but as the story unfolds and shows his point of view, we notice that he turned into a soft man all to protect and make Irene feel safe by his side since she came from an abusive and problematic family.
I caught myself re-reading the episodes where the romance was the main plot more than twice, but aside from Felix, I am not sure if it is a manhwa which I would recommend.