William was trying to fix his past mistakes when suddenly everything came to an end. Given a second chance, he now strives to figure out his place in the fantastical world of his favorite game, but not everything is peachy in the beginning, for together with him is the young duchess Lucrezia Sommer Wulfgrem, the first major villainess of the game, and former owner of the body William now inhabits.
Follow them on their shared struggle to uncover a dangerous conspiracy that will engulf all of the duchy of Wulfgrem.
Content Warning:
Profanity
Traumatising content
An honest shake at the Otome villainess genre, where I’ll try to the best of my limited abilities to write something that many other novels in the genre tend to gloss over.
English is not my first language;
All criticism is welcome!
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- Interlude: Unpredictable turn of eventsApr 15, 2024
- Chapter 89: FatigueMar 31, 2024
- Chapter 88: Cast thy eyes and behold, Perk thy ears and Listen, Open thy mouth and scream.Mar 17, 2024
- Chapter 87: Killing FieldsMar 1, 2024
- Chapter 86: No businesses talk when EatingFeb 16, 2024
- Chapter 85: Violent TendenciesJan 30, 2024
- Chapter 84: Projections onto the seasJan 15, 2024
- Chapter 83: Caustic OverflowDec 28, 2023
- Interlude: Mitigation, Avoidance, StallingDec 16, 2023
- Chapter 82: Love’s a Hydra and there is no flame in the premisesDec 1, 2023
- Update: Bad news (I got ran over)Nov 17, 2023
- Chapter 81: Waters of Life, Springs of CrystalNov 9, 2023
- Chapter 80: PhantomsOct 28, 2023
- Interlude: Upon waves, memory stirs and writhesOct 16, 2023
- Chapter 79: Long shadows once cast, twice shone upon.Oct 5, 2023
- 310 reading
- 81 plan to read
- 9 completed
- 11 paused
- 16 dropped
Though I'm giving this a 3 this has 5 star potential. Sadly I had to ding it twice for two major problems. 1, the prologues are bad enough I would say they need to be rewritten, especially Williams. They drag on for way longer than their plots warrant, again especially Williams, and they make for some pretty dry reading and inconsistent character building. 2, this work desperately needs an editor. The grammar and spelling have frequent mistakes and entire words seem to just be missing some places. However if you can slog through the prologues and put up with poor editing (and let's be real poor editing is a chronic problem on scribblehub anyway) there's a deep and complex plot with interesting characters and surprisingly deep and complex world building that could easily be a 5 star story.
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Just wait for the prolog to end and then the story starts to shine. It has a good world build and not feels like the same novel but different color (which is most of the reincarnation stories sadly) . It has its own flavour. Give it a go, you wont regret it.
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I cannot recommend this enough. It's an amazing novel on the level of stuff like Daybreak on Hyperion. Get past the first three prologue chapters and it's one of the best reincarnation novels I've read in a while. The first three really do drag though.
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Started reading this tasty find on 4.20 at 9:55pm, finished all released (Ch 66) 10:23 4.21pm. First few chapters were decent but the rest were quite enjoyable. I was a little put off by chapters 60-66 as they were quite chaotic. Chapters are far from short :)
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