Yeah… it’s that time again… a raise your own spouse manhwa. This one gives me so much pain to review as it was one of the first Otome/Villainess manhwa I read and I was loving it. Sadly all good things come to an end and the fluffy child raising manhwa I thought I was enjoying turned into a strange relationship between her and her knight who had a complete personality change. How disappointing. Estelle Castielo was born to an abusive mother (I mean this woman fucking locks the child in a suitcase while she goes out to have sex with people) only with the faint memoriesof a past life to keep her company. This all changes when the mother needs money so she decides to sell Estelle to her father and thus begins the first part of the manhwa. This part deals with Estelle learning how to be a child and enjoy things. She meets her father and her brothers and becomes close friends with the knights and everyone in the manor.

Her father gets to figure out how to be a father to a child he didn’t even know existed while her far older brothers try to figure out how to treat her and have fun with this clearly malnourished 11 year old. It’s very sweet and I was loving it. I especially liked the relationship between Estelle and Emel her knight. He cared for her a lot and they had a sweet familial relationship… well that wasn’t enough I guess because TIME-SKIP!

You know something is going to be poorly written when a really jarring time-skip happens and it completely throws off the pace of the story. It’s been quite a few years and she’s an adult now. With this I could go into how the series changes from being about a lonely child being cared for by everyone around her into a generic otome story between two lovers never meant to be surrounded by war and betrayal but instead I’ll just go ahead and rip off the brand aid and say that Emel is the fucking ML. The guy who helped her get over her fears and swore to be a knight to always protect her ends up being the ML and marrying her. All of this isn’t mentioning how he goes through a personality change when he starts to realize his feelings. He becomes argumentative and just unpleasant. It’s not terrible but it is noticeable.

I enjoyed this series so I would occasionally check out the newest chapter to see if it got better or changed or something (or maybe he wasn’t the ML) but no. Whatever. Just disappointed to see something I used to enjoy become this.