FL: I initially hated her as she's your typical transmigrated person who after living on earth and ofc reading the f*cking story she got transmigrated, she has zero brain cells to use her prior knowledge. Spineless too (but!!! She grew some back bone after like 30 chapters??cant remember, I was skimming the earlier chaps as I hate dumb females tbh). Anyway, she's OP asf but scared of a "human" 2nd prince. Kind of like seeing Godzilla being scared by an ant. It's BS tbh.

ML: your typical tsundere? Obsessed with FL, hurtful to her verbally, does not want to like her but expects to be liked back. Basically the perfect ML; strong, rich, handsome and powerful. His flaw? Has mommy issues so he needs the villain for that. Like what?? It's super shallow that I find it so funny. He also finally admitted he likes FL by chap 98. They had snusnu at chap 125

OG ML: childlike. Likes OG FL even if she was already married and plans to make her marriage void (cuz he found a loophole that made sense on that era). Ofc he ended up falling for FL and abandoned OG FL

OG FL: typical "villainess" female lead where she's an angel to everyone but harbors sinister soul cuz she needs to the center of attention and the most beautiful of them all but tragedy (being poor) hits her and she cant be poor so she'll do anything to not be poor and be on the spotlight again. No karma done at the end. Even after all she's done.

Emperor: crazy dad. Obsessed with FL too when he found out she's a "changed" woman (no longer evil and definitely helpful politically). So he urged OG ML to make her his. Anyway, basically non existent in the plot. Dunno why author made his mysterious when he doesn't even have anything in the story.

2nd Prince: main villain. Well we was supposed to be. But he went down immediately cuz he was a rapist during his war time (he r*pes his female knights). Anyway, he held hands with OG FL (cuz she was delusional anyway and wanted the empress seat. Does not matter which brother gets the seat) and tried to kill FL but ofc he didn't succeed. Killed by ML in the end.

Yeah, it's a task to basically cuckhold your husband, but than you get jealous when you see him with other woman??? At the very end she says to the OG FL that she shouldn't rely on men to have a living, despite acknowledging that that's the only way a woman could do so in these times (yeah, woohoo lets totally forget about the side characters she made very rich thus proving her point rather useless) and the dumbest thing is that FL also does the same freaking thing??? What happened to being shamelessly in love with money and literally transmigrating and getting instant everything and not earning a single thing yourself Miss girl? The open ending makes literally no sense, if you put all that world building/side plot it NEEDS to have a conclusive ending otherwise it's just a waste of time.

She actually thinks to herself that although she likes the ML she isn't sure yet if it's just a strong liking or real love. He is, after all, still a villain who is still hurtling himself towards BE by supporting the ultimate villain (the second prince). If she's going to risk her life and peaceful future, she's only going to do it for real love, not for a crush. A+++

Some people have expressed annoyance at the OG FL's (Fleur) ending not being bad enough, but I disagree. Actually the FL herself acknowledged that Fleur isn't that bad. A little s*upid and petty, but she follows her desires. Again, social climbing isn't a sin or a bad thing. Neither is trying to improve your economic/social situation. We all want that. Yes, Fleur did a lot against our MC, but the original Ophelia started it and did way worse, including physically assaulting Fleur multiple times, hiring people to kidnap and r*pe her, etc. So it's not as if Fleur was scheming against some innocent victim.

Also, considering the fact that everyone forgave the MC for the monsterous things she's done (yes she's a different person, but they don't know that), it would be hypocritical for Fleur to not be afforded the same chance.

(and not too obvious: for example when the FL is in trouble in the midst of monsters, instead of getting s*upid like all the FL novels, she remembers being a black sorceress and saves herself easily, without waiting for the arrival of charming prince)

Sylvester is still clearly against the crown prince, and - if the story follows the course of the novel - to the end would still be killed by the latter, regardless of whether or not Ophelia intrudes on one side or the other. And the FL would follow suit in death, even if she decides to keep their distance from the Prince and Countess Fleur, as the wife of the Villain, unless... well, she's divorced and already far far away at the highlight of the story.