Before You Dump Me, I'll Reveal Your Secrets
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Japanese
1w ago
Lucia has deliberately maintained the reputation of being a cruel, heartless villainess to conceal her true intentions.When the Second Prince publicly humiliates her by calling her incompetent and announcing the cancellation of their engagement, everyone expects her to fall from grace.Instead, Lucia calmly begins revealing the prince's corruption, abuse of power, and hidden crimes that she has been investigating all along.As she dismantles the conspiracy surrounding the royal court, she catches the attention of Claude, an influential noble from a neighboring country who sees through her icy façade. While Lucia seeks justice rather than revenge, Claude gradually falls for the intelligent and courageous woman beneath the rumors.The story combines political intrigue, mystery, romance, and a satisfying "villainess gets the last laugh" narrative.
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It isn't often I recommend a storyboard editor get fired, but this manga needs it. The janky pacing and lack of "who what where when" indication makes the narrative completely incomprehensible.
this story feels, kinda all over the place. Was this not about exposing her fiance's crimes? i understanding needing to understand her own backstory and why things happened to her, but i'm feeling a bit lost overall
Yet another smarmy fuckboy for a ML, this twink looks like he should be getting railed in a bad yaoi doujin, not the ML of a shoujo with a supposed strong, intelligent MC.
This feels like someone did one of those villainess anthology one-shots and decided to rework the whole thing to be a full story. I think it'd work more as a shorter story, but in long form it lets you mull over details in the story that you'd otherwise overlook or shrug at in a quick one-shot. Small spoiler, but the spell cast on her to make her evil made it so she possessed the soul of a villainous woman and suppressed her real soul, which sounds like she was possessed but she wasn't and it just opens up a lot of questions. And we find out who the witch was and why they did it, and it's another one of those things where you'd shrug and accept it in a one shot, but here you're thinking about it from chapter to chapter and it starts to chafe in your head.
Overall the first few chapters are fine, I think we just need to fully embrace the absurd to enjoy it. Logic isn't real in this world and things can just happen because "reasons".
That witch is hella rude. Like oh you helped me let’s make you a villainess
Jk come ch 4/5 we get some clarification on it…
I can’t stand this much dimwittedness, sorry.