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Can We Become Family? · review

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Top reader Jul 10, 2025 · 3 min read
6 /10

This is quite a peculiar timeloop "aims for revenge as one turns back into a child" with some parent child wholesomeness sprinkled in manhwa. It's not bad at all, but I'd be hard pressed to think of it as anything special. First things first is the pacing; in the first season it is very much a slow burn series, and yet in the later seasons the pace suddenly picks up, arguably for the better, however it is a very jarring change of pace. Fans of the slow paced nature of the early part would feel the later one feels rushed, while people who may like thenormal pacing of the later seasons wouldn't have stuck out through what may feel like an excruciatingly slow crawl of the initial pace.

Next is the story and it is... okay. I highly suspect that the strangely higher than average rating is in small part thanks to stockholm and sunk-cost syndrome, because when you look at the big picture the story is very much average and the execution feels too safe. It's not quite a spoiler, but our female lead is quite the Mary Sue with her comically tragic backstory and insanely overpowered abilities, all in a practically flawless character package; everyone who is good to her are god tier level of powerful while all her enemies are bumbling buffoons, there's no real tension because nobody can be a real threat towards her and her people.

And that's fine sometimes, it's a power revenge fantasy, just a (in my humble opinion) very average one.

The parent child aspect? Underdeveloped bonding time, mostly pushed forward by yet more sad backstory. All the relationships (except with a bunch of side characters that I love) are not very organic and this is what kills it for me personally; the story wasted so much time on her efforts to finally get to her "found family" second home, and not enough time spent on building relationship with the people she will eventually consider family. When you later see female lead gets chummy with the family that matters to her, it feels unearned, and all the time skips really doesn't help with this issue.

It can be an enjoyable read if it hits your fancy and you know what to expect, but overall it's unfortunately a mixed bag. I would instead recommend another manhwa with similar premise called "The Monster Duchess and Contract Princess", better writing in general and the pacing isn't all over the place like this one.

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