Beware the Villainess!

After a promising start, with a strong female lead who takes on the demented male leads without batting an eye, this manhwa quickly descends into nonsensical chaos after entering season two. If you're thinking that the unfortunate plot can be saved with the power of love, you would be sorely mistaken, as the romance is almost completely absent until the end. The characters, like the plot, do very little in terms of development. Though there are a few good chuckles in the more slapstick style approach to this trope, the story remains ever so generic. Simply put, with so many more manhwa to choose from inthe world of isekai romances, I wouldn't waste your time.

After completing even all the side stories all I can say is this would truly be a “mediocre fantasy world created by a korean author” WITHOUT SEASON 2 and (some) side stories. Character development is almost non-existent in Season 1 and majorly consists MC shooing away the FL’s male leads—which gets boring. I was dreading to see what was so special in this webtoon. Towards the ending of Season 1, chapters 50+ introducing a new conflict definitely upped the whole story, and it felt refreshing to read something non-repetitive. DON’T read it for the romance. I’m not saying it’s not there, but there’s no MUTUAL love untilseason 2. The rare slip-in of dirty jokes in the side stories were funny once the relationship was established. Read “Beware of Villainess” if: -You enjoy comedy. MC does some hilarious face expressions and comments. However, it sometimes spams the same face—which might get annoying to some people. -You’re wanting to read OP MC screw all her enemies over. She has crazy plot armor. -You like to see some action. This story had some sick fights throughout. Especially among the werewolves and monsters. -You want to delve into the side characters’ stories. I personally think all the character development they had was more interesting than whatever the MC was doing. Even so, there was SO much filler in the side stories. I regretted reading some of them and it still left the story with many plot holes. You might feel even more displeased with the ending once you read the side stories too.

Well the middle was better than decent, but in the first 20 or so chapters everything felt like it took 5 times longer than it should (explaining things, finding solutions, etc.). And the end, well it came too soon, and the big baddie for all he had to say (and considering what he was) sure disappeared fast. Also who gets married without showing any kind of intimacy first ? I was disappointed in that. And then there's the side stories, which are a 3rd of the entire thing and contain everything the main story was missing, like side character development and the actual romance part because the mainstory had none, it would be more accurate to call it an Action-Fantasy rather than Romance-Fantasy. Normally most of that would've been in the main story, some might say it would've slowed down the pacing, but again, pacing is more of an issue in action stories than romance. As for the side stories themselves, at least 3-4 of the 7 parts were probably not worth reading for various reasons like showing more negative than positive things, giving backstories to characters I didn't like, like Kartena. Let's focus more on the positives, by far the thing that stood out most in this manga was the sound track... lol, just kidding, it was of course the artwork, simply excellent, traditional B&W manga art will forever be 2nd place from now on. The gender role semi-reversal aspects were also kinda nice, I almost thought (hoped) it would go in different (more GL) direction.