Correcting the Villainess of the Academy

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I reunited with the girl who left me when I lost everything.

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cyanin
cyanin
Jun 06, 2024
Status: c90
It's a plot that feels a little rough around the edges but has potential for some good (melo) drama being built. I've seen comments about it being Damn Academy-ish, imo the premise has a lot of parallels but the flow doesn't feel very similar.

The first chunk of the story spends time in MC's childhood interactions and relationship with future antagonist, setting up context and background for the rest of the story. I guess some people may have issues with that, maybe due to patience? I didn't, if you enjoyed series... more>> like Cross Game then you know how much showing-not-telling backstory can do for the plot even if it feels a bit slow in the short term. At least so far this isn't another series that jumps midway into events and blows its load in the first 30 chapters then meanders around afterwards.

A decent summary would hit those backstory spoilers. Going light on that, general gist of the situation is that post-prologue MC has massively unresolved backstory trauma and some magical weirdness that shouldn't really be possible. He's basically been raised in combat zones for the last few years, up until the person in charge unexpectedly chucks him to the academy. Tbh, I think they just wanted to get him some healthy social interaction before he turned into a psychopath. MC arrives and from pretty much day one isn't enjoying the situation there:

OG FL has seemingly moved on and doesn't know who he is for spoiler reasons, MC is increasingly hating her for spoiler reasons. Part of him going is to help out a villainess character who's having a really bad time, only she's like a hedgehog due to severe magic trauma and politics. He meets a misogynist character that is so because of relationship trauma. A happy friend character may or may not have half a graveyard stuffed in her closet. Nobody in this world is well-adjusted, I think that's one of those things we have to go with the flow on. The overarching plot comes from getting caught up in events orchestrated by evil mages conspiring, corruption in powerful families, political unrest, etc.

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Spoiler time. So, the MC/OG FL divide is because she thinks he's dead and has "evidence" of it. After their happy times were rudely interrupted by everyone dying it seems she tried to pull that 'protect MC by distancing from him, make him hate her but at least he's safe' shtick and it horribly backfired. From her perspective, all that did was drive MC to a painful death immediately afterwards. Which probably has consequences on the sanity side of things.

On his side, post-timeskip MC still can't handle her seemingly abandoning him right after waking up from a disaster like that, considering his PTSD and trauma and everything. He can't even look in a mirror or interact without a mask on. At the academy he learns she apparently moved on long ago and has been living it up with money, power and a loving fiance she brags about, so now he has a growing grudge on top of a request to support someone opposing her family.

Going by general story trends I'm figuring her mysterious fiance has a good shot at actually being the MC (or his memory, from her point of view). The burnt ring of his will probably come into play somehow. If that is the case, everything she says or does against MC keeps stacking up the drama wagon for whenever it comes out. It's still early in the plot, so I'm hoping the situation drags it out for some time -- the longer this goes unrevealed the worse things will get between them, and the bigger that eventual melodrama will be. It's a guess since there's not much given about her so far, but if she is a villain in this series I think she wants to just watch the world burn now.

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Edit (deeper spoilers) :

Hah! On point with a bunch of the guesswork but it looks like I was off on that last part. The OG FL is being antagonistic & doing everything she's doing because she's on a warpath to purge the ones responsible for the disaster. It's mostly out of revenge but she's also shown a bit of wanting to honor MCs memory by doing good things, like he would have wanted her to. And, we've found out who caused the tragedies! It's the Villainess' family, yes the same one MC is now supporting. She didn't know what they had done, and MC doesn't find out for some time.

Villainess has been corrected, she's fallen hard for MC in no small part because his magical weirdness' influence means she's no longer experiencing the constant magic feedback that was driving her suicidal. They discovered & survived her family's evil scheme together, but likely more drama mounting as she still hasn't made the connection that her family's (evil) plans were what directly lead to MC's situation. Oh, and backstory-FL appears to have caught the scent of MC's true identity.

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Can't do the usual comment about overall TL quality because like 3 groups have worked on this over time and I still have to re-read earlier ones now that Fenrir is going at it to see if it's any different. <<less
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icerror
icerror
Apr 24, 2024
Status: c10
Tl; dr: Skip the 1st 9 chapters, it's a pain and inconsequential. I'll give this another shot when there's a story

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For starter, why is the MC childhood so damn nigh important that it's the entire pilot? I don't care why the MC sounded like some blue musicians in his earlier adolescent year and a downsized defense contractor in the latter. There's no promise that these setups will pay off.

If the author really wanted this development, make it a flashback or something, after the readers care about the MC.

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Reader_randnum
Reader_randn
Feb 15, 2025
Status: Completed
Don’t be fooled by the low rating—this novel is a hidden gem!

I’ve read hundreds of books and novels across different genres, and Correcting the Villainess of the Academy is easily one of the best I’ve ever come across. At first, it might seem like just another academy fantasy with a villainess, but as the story unfolds, it becomes something truly extraordinary.

The characters are well-developed, the plot is engaging, and, most importantly, the novel delivers a satisfying resolution—something incredibly rare in this genre. There are no major plot holes, no frustrating... more>> loose ends—everything is wrapped up beautifully.

While the beginning is just good, the story only gets better and better. If you’re hesitant because of the rating, ignore it and give this novel a fair chance. It deserves far more recognition than it has received.

If you’re looking for a story with solid world-building, compelling characters, and a plot that actually follows through on its promises—culminating in a truly satisfying ending—this is a must-read.

It’s a masterpiece. <<less
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Timewinders
Timewinders
Dec 08, 2024
Status: c134
This is a solid academy story. There's a harem, but it's not too big and the girls are all interesting characters. It's satisfying seeing Seoyon forced to watch the protagonist, her ex-boyfriend, getting hit on by other women after she was so cruel to him right after he lost all of his friends and family.

My one nitpick is about the main character. He's a badass when he's fighting, but he's a typical dense harem MC, not noticing anyone's interest in him. He's also very ignorant and lacks curiosity about the... more>> world he lives in and the relationships of the people around him. It's frustrating seeing him not ask questions about things that are obvious foreshadowing or not reading about the history of his world. People mention the witches to him a few times, but as of chapter 134, at least, he still has not read anything about the witches despite this being knowledge that's widely available to the public and which several people have told him is something important that he should already know. I can tolerate a dumb protagonist, but this guy is willfully ignorant. <<less
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TheMisty0
TheMisty0
Nov 15, 2024
Status: c125
In my opinion, this is a very well written and engaging novel.

It starts off with what could seem as a long prologue, but to me it was a very good introduction to the story and carried some major plot points that shouldn't have been written hastily.

As it progresses it did a good job of playing the mystery elements and keeping the reader hooked, further pushing the story with new narratives and developing the existing ones, while occasionally throwing some spicy elements to excite things.

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the MC is well written and has logical personality traits according to what he's been through, his sometimes overly violent tendencies are the only somewhat ungrounded thing but it could be an inherent nature of his.

The first FMC is also more or less logically written, from her being an arrogant spoiled child to the sweet MC's partner, and even though many don't like how she pushed him off after they survived the village attack, I also see that as a rational conclusion a troubled young girl could have come up with after barely escaping death with the MC and returning back to her family only to be constantly hunted by assassins, in that state of mind and fearing for him, although it was a harsh decision for the mentally fragile MC that had just lost everything, it's not completely nonsensical, but I don't like how her character turned out at the academy, her making a facade and engaging in the nobles politics is fine, but after finding out who the MC is, her subtle changes and not so eager moves to reclaim their relationship felt lukewarm to me, I think she should have made more desperate moves and tried to get back to him with whatever means necessary given the obsessive relationship painted between them even if she wanted him to gradually accept her again, because that's how they were initially set up.

The second FMC however for me is a perfect example of great character development, she started off as the arrogant spoiled young lady type with a good reason for how she overly did it, and turned into a warm doting tsundere that doesn't like to show it but is overly reliant and clingy to the MC.

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All in all I would highly recomment giving this novel a chance as it is a great and very enjoyable read to me. <<less
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Kermit Pretender
Kermit Prete
Aug 18, 2024
Status: c100
Damn Academy 2.0

As the comments in the site pointed out, the start is similar. MC lives in a backwater village where nothing interesting happens until he meets FL which is a girl WAY out of his league; they get to know each other and fall in love, all sunshine and rainbows until tragedy strikes and MC is kicked to the curb at the worst time possible, some time happens and they encounter each other in KR academy yet only MC recognizes her.

For me this is the superior version, mainly because... more>> the MC can SPEAK COMPLETE SENTENCES, there are some male character that aren't villains and female characters don't instantly fall in love with him. Very low bar I know but that's how it is sometimes. Another good thing to point out is how MC's trauma is well paced through the novel.

Two gripes I have so far is how MC doesn't interact more with mandatory big b**bs airhead first met girl at the academy, focusing more with the villainess instead and how the author just outright tells you some future plot twists. <<less
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Jhonrock
Jhonrock
Nov 06, 2024
Status: c155
This novel is so damn good!!!

If you read "Damn Academy", you will find this one quite similar in terms of premise. Both ML and FML met when they were childs, became friends and, as the time passed, this friendship turned into love, which bloomed beautifully until the day their small village got attacked by monsters. While trying to protect FML, ML got injured and passed out. Days later, he woke up in a hospital bed and discovered that his village was destroyed by the monsters and everyone there died, his... more>> family included. A few days later, FML, who had disappeared till that point, showed up in the middle of the night saying she wanted to break up with him, throwing extremely harsh words at him, disappearing again after. With a shattered heart and having lost his will to live, he tried end his own life but got stopped by a stranger who, after some talk, decided to take ML with him. This stranger was a high skilled spec-ops military guy who, for two years, trained ML in all things combat/military related, turning him into a monster killing machine. Noticing that MC was becoming less human and more monster killing machine, he decided to send MC to an academy, so he could experience a normal teenager life. There, for MC's suprise, he met FML again.

That is, basically, the prologue of the story.

While in Damn Academy the story branches a lot, here the narrative is more focused on ML and FML, which I liked more, to be honest. It kinda annoyed me the fact that, in Damn Academy, after the "prologue", FML, and everything related to her got, basically, completely forgotten.

The drama is strong here.

But, the thing that got my atention the most in this novel was it's world. It's really unique. Or at least an unique mix of different genres. So, how should I describe it? It mixes elements of the post-apocalyptic, fantasy and sci-fi genres. If I'm not mistake, at certain point of our modern time, a meteor shower ravaged the planet, ending the lives of the majority of the population. With these rocks from the stars, a new element was introduced in the atmosphere, which brought great change to the planet. It mutated all living beings, humans, animals and plants, turning earth, literally, into an alien planet. Some humans mutated into monsters (of all types) and others acquired the ability to cast all types of magic. Only these wizards were able to fight the monsters and deal with other types of hazards that became common. Because of that, the academy was created, a place to gather and train these special beings, so they could become better protectors of humanity (what's left of it).

About the story, this novel's narrative follows, basically, two paths. The first one is the ML and FML love drama. The second one is the classic "save the world from doom". With the advent of this new element on earth, which cause all kinds of mutations on every living being, unique beings popped up, and they aren't all friendly one with another. And some of these unique beings are plotting the annihilation of humanity behind the scenes. A plot that our ML has some undisclosed (and unknow to him) connection with. Until the point I read (chapter 155), almost nothing about this was revealed yet (basically, just who the villains are). <<less
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Soobie
Soobie
Oct 29, 2024
Status: c96
Like another reviewer wrote, this is definitely the improved version of Damn Academy.

Absolutely brutal in some of the relationship depictions. So nice to have an MC that doesn't hold back, but there are definitely times the story would be stronger if the MC took a genuine beating other than in the starting, growth arc.

My biggest gripe would be that it gets a little bit predictable... although I'm hoping two of the love interests plays out how it appears it should and it turns into an horrendous, literal bloodbath.
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Poopoostinky
Poopoostinky
Jan 13, 2025
Status: c134
it's a good novel and I really like it. I like the fact that the main character has male friends, which is rare. I also like that the main character has drawbacks to his op powers and creates tension. One thing I don't like is the character yeon minha.

long version of why I hate her

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minha Yeon is a useless brat who one sidedly gets saved by the MC, putting the MC in life threatening danger and cutting his life span short. Doesn't even think of how she can help him despite all he did for her, And while the MC is constantly thinking about serious things like how to help her and how to protect her she's off in la-la-land thinking "oh he's so handsome" and "wow he's so great how can I seduce him". And when she does attempt to make a move all she does is just borderline sexually harass him and then get mad at him acting like he's the pe*vert. Not only that her personality is worse than 12 year old seoyeon's personality as a 17 year old. At least 12 year old seoyeon was just like a cute childish brat, she even forgave the MC for beating her to a pulp. While Yeon minha still acts worse than a 12 year old at 17 and its just plain embarrassing.

I really liked the first few chapters, for Seoyeon and Hyun's relationship you can really see the chemistry between them as they grow up together. Even tho they were brats to each other you can see how they both change for the better for each other. And despite the fact that she did hurt him horribly, she only ever did it because she cares about him and wanted to protect him. Everything she in her life, even after he died was his sake (her basically dedicating her life to avenge him). In comparison what even is there between MC and minha.

i know im repeating myself here but all minha does is take take take and act like a brat. She hasn't made a single bit of effort to help him and her character hasn't developed at all. SHE HAS NOT DONE ONE THING TO HELP HIM. She is just as horrible a person as when she first met the MC and correct me if I'm wrong, she hasn't even apologized for being such a bootycheeks person to him in the beginning. So like the audacity to like him is crazy like she does not even deserve to like him.

after reading a bit more I hate her even more. Ok I admit that she does some things for him, like straightening his tie, or wiping his body with a towel. Both things that he can easily already do himself??? And it's just her being a pe*vert taking advantage if doing "favours". AND THEN AFTER LITERALY JUST STRAITENING HIS TIE SHE THINKS "oh he needs me" LIKE SHE LITERALLY DID THE EASIEST BARE MINIMUM THING EVER AND IS LIKE "HE NEEDS ME" and her audacity to think that him helping her is to be expected despite the fact that SHE HAS DONE NOTHING for him. I CANT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THERE HAS NOT BEEN A SINGLE TIME WHERE SHE THOUGHT ABOUT WAY SHE CAN HELP HIM.

The story phrases her dependence on him as like something cute/quirky but it's not at all. Maybe if he depended on her just as much. But no, he is not into her, it's just her one sidedly pushing her feelings onto him and depending on him. It's like emotional blackmail at this point. Like they even pointed it out when he stayed at the commander's families house that he realized that he needs to be her anchor or else she'd have nothing to live for.

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tldr of why I hate her

Spoiler

Essentially, Minha is just seoyeon but worse in EVERY SINGLE ASPECT. Every time I read a scene of her my blood boils. I almost quit reading because of her. I'm so glad Jin seo is shaping up to be another harem member because that means I don't have to see Minha's annoying face

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sorry this was lowkey just a review to vent how much I hate minha yeon as a character, <<less
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