You almost never see a female character die in korean novels. Period that just doesn't happen. They are never really evil always either manipulated (as if you did not have responsibility for your own actions even if you were mislead but who am I even trying to explain this to) or actually know more than the protagonist and are just "pretending". I despise that. Male characters die by the thousands but we can't let a single precious potential harem member disappear right. Well not here. In the very first "episode" the protagonist saves a woman who seems to be in danger turns out she is an assassin. She steals from him and in the end attempts to kill him. And instead of him forgiving her because for sure she was manipulated by an evil male character he actually kills her. But she isn't just a cardboard cutout character with no personality or reason to be the way she is. No she is a proper character and yet she gets what she deserves. That is more rare than a unicorn in korean and well in an absolute majority of japanese novels as well.