(Which is also a sht way of storytelling. Like the author could've done way better than to chose the worst/easiest method available to write. As chronological order is thrown out of the window right from chapter 5.)

Also this is not a SI, its a freaking transmigrated novel!!! The FL is the MC not our ML!!!!

In her second regression after punching him and breaking off the engagement she actually had the gall to be angry at him for choosing another woman. That alone tell what kind of self centered character she has. Sure, she was traumatized in her first regression but that doesn't mean he has to be in your beck and call like a dog.

Also what she's doing in the current time sounds similiar to what MC did to her in her first regression. Currently it's just by being possesive but who knows it won't get physical later on.

Description: MC is transported to the novel he was reading where the protagonist was the female lead (fl), and her reverse harem. MC took possession of first third rate villain, which was fl's fiance. In the original novel the fiance would mistreat FL and that would lead FL to change from a timid girl to one who would stand up for herself. She would cancel their engagement and later in the academy she would basically have a harem of men interested in her but we don't know how the novel ends bc the MC never finished it.

Now for the twist. The FL is a regressor. The FL lived through the first timeline which was exactly the same as in the novel but at the ending she regressed to the beginning of the novel. This would start her second timeline. But there was one difference between the first and second timeline. The difference was that in the first timeline, our MC still hadn't taken possession of the third rate villain. His possession was during the second timeline.

The FL didn't know this so when she started the second timeline she treated MC like shit. But during that timeline she noticed that he wasn't the same person and she slowly started falling for him. They started working together in preventing the apocalypse and other stuff. They never got together because of many reasons which don't really matter when reading the novel. Anyways he dies and then she regresses again with many regrets.

All of this happens before the beginning of the novel btw, this is just background story. The novel starts at the beginning of the third timeline, a few hours before MC and FL meet 'for the first time'. At this point she knows everything about him but the MC only knows what he has read about her in the novel which isn't much because she is basically a totally different person now (because she has lived two lives already).

MC goal is to live peacefully without being the villain he was meant to be and also keeping the story of the novel the same without altering it. While the fl's goal is to marry MC and prevent all the bad stuff that happen in the world, and specifically to him, from happening (we don't know specifics tho)

Now that's basically the setting/description. And it is pretty f*cking good, it is the soul reason I read this long.

Why I didn't like it?

Well first of all the MC. He is a simp that does everything FL tells him to. He was so determined to not change the events of the novel but he never even tries to keep them the same.

The one and only thing he had to do the was break off his engagement with the FL (because that's what starts her journey) and even that he couldn't do. He just kept making s*upid excuses and after finally accepting the engagement he has set no other goal for himself. He continues saying how he wants to keep the events in the novel the same yet things have already change and keep on changing dramatically and he does nothing about it.

Now for the fl. She has lived like 200 hundred years combined. She is so powerful that she was able to live more than a normal human, so in total she has lived like 200+ years. And yet this is only told to us, not shown. She acts like a 14 year old girl. And for some reason she doesn't want to tell MC about her regressions? She could very easily convince him but for some reason refuses to. Knowing how much he simps for her, I wouldn't be surprised if she could convince him that the sun is actually green.

Now, don't be fooled by the tags, the original description or even my description. There's no story here. The only story told to us are the flashbacks from fl's other lives. As of 44 chaps, nothing has actually happened yet, this is just a slice of life of MC and FL getting closer and closer while ignoring their responsibilities of saving the world.

This novel is just a constant loop of author telling us how beautiful FL is, MC freaking out over her beauty. Then FL freaking out over MC touching her hand or something.

The only interesting thing is the flashbacks we get of the second timeline, where we see the past live of our MC and FL and we slowly uncover what happened between them that has FL feeling guilty and regret. Sadly we only get those flashbacks like every 10 chapters.

they start off not liking each other but slowly start to by the end right? Wrong. The heroine loves the MC and the MC clearly loves the heroine despite what he intends to do (supposedly but I doubt he's going to break the engagement). It makes me so angry when there is no real conflict between the MC and main heroine. The MC is supposed to keep his distance from the heroine but he doesn't while making s*upid excuses about not doing that when he obviously wants her around.

the main heroine has actually reincarnated 3 times and she is currently on her 3rd regression. She fell in love with the MC during her second time and he died so she went back once more to the day they meet. I would personally rather read about her second life as it sounds like they bonded more organically than this time around and the MC actually managed to break the engagement. It also sounds like there is a major war that happens so at least it won't be all about the romance at some later point in the story. Again, the only conflict between the two right now is MC can't admit he wants the heroine and the heroine can't reveal she has memories of another life.

this is our FL's 3rd regression. In her second regression she meets our MC and not the villain but there she clearly hates our MC but throughout the story we get snippets from the FL's view of her realising something is amiss with our MC and he isn't acting like the villain and isn't showing his usual obsessive behavior. She eventually realises that the entity possessing the villain's body is clearly different from the original villain and hence in her reaction in the 3rd regression.

"MC is supposed to keep his distance from the heroine but he doesn't while making s*upid excuses about not doing that when he obviously wants her around" but the reason for this is that the MC wants to avoid ruin initially so he tries to break the engagement off but when he realises things are amiss and the FL wierdly doesn't hate him he decided to go through with what he wants to do and properly establishes a relationship with our FL.

the author should let us know more about the FL's second regression which is very interesting.

to save the world from ruin. Here both our MC and FL use their knowledge (with the FL using her knowledge from her previous 2 regressions) to save the world from destruction. I am thinking we might even see our MC realising that our FL might be a regressor but that is if she confesses to him however she already knows that our MC is some special entity possessing the villain but since they respect and love each other too much they might not pry too deep

Alongside our MC, Damian, being a transmigrator, our female Lead, Elena, is revealed to be a regressor on her third life.

In her first life, she and Damian were on bad terms (i.e. Damian being the villain tortured her, yada yada). In her second life, she tried to enact revenge upon him and break of her engagement with him. At that point our MC, the transmigrator, has already taken over Damian. The story goes on, Elena figures out that Damian is in reality a transmigrated soul at this point and falls in love with him. She regrets breaking up her relationship with him and despairs over the fact that Damian fell in love with someone other than her.

On her third life, when she first met him, acted as the naive her from her first life, and does her best to get married to him.

This whole scheme was beautifully crafted, it's a fresh take on the otherwise scale transmigration genre, the contrast between Damian (trying to adhere to the original story's plot, not knowing Elena is a regressor), and Elena (knowing he's trying to adhere to the story he knows, she herself trying to break "fate" and get together with him) is fascinating and made me want more.

1. The overly descriptive minor details and info dump with no creativity. The author describe everything that was in their head. It's so detailed that it overshadows the important part and lose focus of the story. The pacing felt so slow that it's unbearable. (They held engagement ceremony that's supposed to happen soon after ch90!)

2. The unnecessary plot that should be gloss over. (7 ch was used to told the story about the fl's maid that was rarely mention and other cases)

3. Under utilize plot, great premise but author only focus on sol. Which betrayed reader expectations.

4. Too many pov, the author gives perspective to every character with no clear main pov, which makes the story feel disconnected like an anthology. Worse it's the same scenario with different perspective.

6. Mary sue X Gary sue. Some people may not be able to stomach the unreasonableness and wish fulfillment of it. Like how they fell in love, how there's no tension, and everything went their way that it felt flat.

5 ⭐ Very enjoyable, with some minor issues that can be ignored.

4 ⭐ Enjoyable, with some issues that can't be ignored but won't ruin the enjoyment.

3 ⭐ Mildly enjoyable, with some major issues that may ruin the enjoyment

2 ⭐ Slightly enjoyable, with many major issues that will definitely ruin the enjoyment.

1 ⭐ Not enjoyable, don't read this novel. Not worth your time. Not recommend

The reason she likes him just seems because he was nice to her in her first regression but he only treated her nicely because he knows shes the heroine and getting on her bad side would just be troublesome with all her romantic pursers who will go after him. I say this because in the current 2nd regression he tells us his plan to not get on her badside for that reason. He also says he honestly just doesn't want to get involved with her because since shes the heroine and the hero shes going to be involved in all the most dangerous stuff and he just wants a simple life. The bs about the first regression honestly don't see a reason why she would fall in love because he 100% was barely involved with her and he had a lover in that life so I doubt he woulda fell in love with her or liked her at all at that point in time so I don't see how she fell in love if not just for him being nice. When he dies in the first regression he dies with a smile on his face like he was fine with it but for some weirdazz reason the heroine breaksdown and goes straight to the 2nd regression where the story starts. He was satisfied with his life but nope her delousonal mind thinks she should be his lover instead for legit no reason even those that read 100 plus still don't know why she fell in love with him in the first regression. Maybe why author is on hatius he can't give us a good reason as to why she suddenly fell in love with a guy who was already in a loving relationship in that timeline.

I think that our boy damian is actually kinda the same person throughout all her past regressions. Like in ending maker, every main or side character has had past lives before, it's just that they don't remember it. Near the end it is explained how Jude and Cordelia are just possessing the body of the character, but they are them. So maybe our boy was always damian to begin with or it might be like author's pov, but maybe less complicated. Basically, like how ren keeps being uh created? I don't even f*cking know what to called it, but maybe it's like that but damian's character/personality keeps changing until they reach a certain ending. And Elena also said something about being near damian calms her divine powers or something of the like, and it doesn't seem to be damian's body doing that but rather his soul. Idk, think of it what you will, it just some random bs that I thought up.

Elena turning a yandere sorta, not like yandere, but like possessive and obsessive? Well, something like that.