Plot

The world is one fated with destruction. The reason behind the world's destruction? Dragons. Four hatchlings at that. These hatchlings accidently stumbled onto Earth when trying to go through their Amus**ent (I guess like a self-discovery journey), and because humans are well... humans, they suffered in some way or another. This lead to adult dragons rampaging on Earth as to avenge the hatchlings. Our main character is a regressor who has made it his life's (or I guess existence's?) purpose to stop the world's fated destruction. He has lived over countless iterations trying to prevent the world's destruction; but, even when he reached the pinnacle of strength, he still wasn't able to stop it. This is his 7th attempt, and this time he has decided to approach the problem in a more sophisticated method than violence.

One thing I especially love about this novel is the difference in iterations. The fact that there were other instances of these characters that contrast so much with the current iteration's make the character development seem that much heavier. It is like a way of knowing how far they've improved from their original selves.

Characters

Yu Bom: Bom is such a complex character and I love it. She is a green dragon, meaning she has outstanding social skills. She is able to read the mood, great at acting, has quick judgement, and is overall a sly fox. She has the ability to look into Providence, meaning she always has an idea what the general outcome of her decisions will be. This compliments her abilities well, but also makes her vulnerable when she is unable to look into Providence (honestly it makes her really cute, too). She focuses heavily on pleasing others. She thinks that being "mature" is being able to hide her emotions from others. Because of that, she also tends to disregard her own opinions and ideas.

Later on in the novel, Bom learns to be more selfish. Through spending time with Yu Jitae, she develops romantic feelings for him. These eventually spiral into complex emotions that she has a hard time keeping locked in her heart. When she finally starts opening up a little to him, she develops a half-hidden obsession over him.

Yu Yeorum: Yeorum probably has the heaviest backstory of the dragons. She is a red dragon, and a weak one at that. In a race where power rules all, being weak is like a death sentence. Her feisty and tough personality is due to her harsh upbringing. A red dragon's goal in their Amus**ent is to become stronger. So, to make up for her weak self she constantly pushes herself to her limit and single-mindedly focuses on getting stronger.

I don't even know where to begin in explaining Yeorum's growth as a character. Originally, she was self-reliant, and she thought of those stronger than her helping her out as sympathy from the powerful to the weak. She is an extremely competitive person who can't help but be discouraged when others are more talented than her. But, after experiencing countless hardships with Yu Jitae and somehow making it through them, she learns to be more open in relying on others, and that what matters isn't other people's progress but her own.

Yu Gyeoul: MY FAVORITE CHARACTER HOLY SHI- *cough* Gyeoul is the epitome of cuteness. I can't properly put into words how adorable she is, but I'll try anyways. Gyeoul is a blue dragon who hatches on Earth during the beginning of the Amus**ent. She is a childish little dragon with little to no idea about the world, and it is absolutely heartwarming to watch her grow up.

Yu Jitae plays the father figure in Gyeoul's life. Despite his scary demeanor, Gyeoul has never feared the regressor. I love the clinginess she shows to him, even after she grows older she never stops showing affection for him. She is really cute because she is naïve of the world, and her reactions to things that are unexpected are really funny. Every interaction she makes in the novel always makes me smile like an idiot.

Yu Kaeul: Another really complex character! Kauel is a golden dragon, meaning she has the ability to empathize with others. What I mean by that is that she can literally experience that person's emotions herself to the point where she can think exactly like them. This ability is extremely detrimental to the mental health of our innocent golden dragon. She has a cheerful nature, but she is also extremely weak-minded. Once she faces hardship, she easily falls down a rabbit hole of depression.

I think Kauel has had the most significant growth in character compared to the rest of the dragons. In the previous iterations, Kauel has always been some influential person who becomes absorbed in the attention of others. Due to her personality, ability, and the nature of social media, Kauel always becomes overwhelmed from negative feedback. She resorts to terrible forms of stress-relief like drugs and alcohol, eventually becoming suicidal because she can't handle it anymore. In this iteration, Kauel has grown so much stronger compared to her alternate selves. Yu Jitae lead Kauel into a completely different direction from the previous iterations. She is now a little more headstrong, and has found a more meaningful purpose to her life.

Yu Jitae: Oh boy, I've finally reached the main character of the story. Yu Jitae is the most realistic take on a regressor I have ever seen. He is completely different from other regressors, that is, he is a human devoid of normal emotions and is willing to do anything he can to achieve what he wants. He utilizes his previous iterations to cut off problems at the stem, and he easily kills people if they pose a threat or become troublesome to deal with in the future. It is an established fact from the beginning that he is the strongest being on Earth. There is no bullsh*t where he uses previous life information to become stronger, because he is already the strongest he can be.

Yu Jitae is what makes this novel so fun. The backstory behind him and his character is pretty unique, and it is interesting to watch his blunt reactions and his irrationally rational behavior. Not only that, but the change in him is the most obvious of any character. Throughout the story, he slowly becomes more human again. His emotions return, and his previous cold-heartedness starts to melt, although only a bit.

now for Bom, I dislike her greatly being the female lead, I would rather she stayed as just another daughter or go down the harem route. To me Bom is an manipulative but surprisingly flat character, she has no interest of her own except teasing the protagonist and chapters that show her perspective makes my opinion of her lower greatly. She sees the protagonist as some sort of romance game where she has the cheat code due to her future sight and constantly plays him because of it. This could be helped if she had some character to her for me to relate or at least understand her actions but she doesn't. It truly makes me feel like she's a manipulative, vile person in my mind who has no respect for personal boundaries. Basically she has no tact and it disgusts me. This all comapred to kauel who has the most character development and is charming, or yeorum who has her own goals and story and you slowly learn to love her by the later chapters and geouyl is adorable and I wish her the world too bad I will be dropping this due to the insufferable actions of Bom.

Thoughts of Bom in latest chapters were very interesting, but also worrying about the future..

What about 'hostility', which side, why does it appear only now?..

He is a bit of a psychopath, cause killing brings him pleasure, but he controls it, and for various reasons. Although he went through a lot he still has morality. In short: Fantastic!

Closer to the end, when he decides to share his dark history with her, he accepts, that he likes her, but still torturing her by breaking her teeth just to be sure, that she is not lying... and she is fine with that... like why I'm reading this torture p*rn...