Life Reversal ~ I Was Cheated On and Falsely Accused, but Now the Most Beautiful Girl in the School Is Getting Close to Me ~ (WN)

King of Strangers says:

I’ve been following this mainly just to see some sort of closure, at least for Miyuki. The story was basically just NTR with a happy ending, but the point has been made already. Eiji was a victim and got his happy ending. Showing how perfect him and his life are is just redundant now. Miyuki screwed up badly, but every chapter with her is just the same pity party over and over.

I think what’s really missing here are real human emotions. Eiji is pretty one dimensional, written essentially to be a victim. There’s not much to expand on since he basically just got his reward for being a victim and now wants to move on with his life, but a little more agency on his part would be nice. Happily ever after is nice and all, but after the 40th one, we kind of get the point.

Kondo got what he deserved as the villain, but he was so cartoonishly evil for a high school kid that it felt like a revenge power fantasy pretty early on. Miyuki may have screwed up everything monumentally, but maybe it’s worth exploring why she went down that path to begin with now.

I think it can be explained easily enough by just acknowledging that she wanted to experience life witn someone other than Eiji. She grew up basically being expected to marry Eiji by default because of how close they were and how his family welcomed her, but he was the safe choice. Dependable, honest and kind, but not terribly exciting. Maybe she loved the idea of him more than Eiji himself. Kondo was confident, charismatic, attractive, and presented her with a choice, something she never felt like she had. If he hadn’t been so uniquely evil, they might have stayed together. He was though, and now she’s dealing with the consequences of the poor choices she made to keep her options open. They’re young, after all. Dating around would have been perfectly normal without all of the soap opera betrayal.

Now she can reflect on what she really wants in life, and maybe on the nature of love itself. Loving someone and being in love with them are two different things, and now she can really reflect on which one she feels for Eiji. Maybe she can realize that her love that once felt more like an expectation has become something more pure and well defined. Or maybe she’ll realize that, while she never should have hurt him the way she did, her love was more platonic and routed in obligation, leading her to want something more passionate and honest.

I’d like to see closure for everyone, and I think Miyuki deserves some kind of happy ending, even if she has to live with some regrets. I wouldn’t even be opposed to her and Eiji finding their way back to each other after a lot of growing and soul searching. Love isn’t always about perfect fairytale romances where nothing goes wrong. Sometimes love is about patience, understanding, compassion, and learning from the past instead of letting it define you.

GLUEsniffers says:

6.8/10

Honestly reading this felt less like experiencing an actual story and more like reading someone’s fantasy. The writing itself is pretty weak and the premise never really had much depth or scope to begin with but I kept going because people kept calling it “PEAK” but the more I read the more it just felt like overly idealistic wish fulfillment rather than a well written narrative.
When you break it down it’s just a very basic revenge story but most of the events don’t even make sense when you stop and think about them the revenge itself is absurdly unrealistic and the plot constantly twists itself just to make the protagonist look good while everyone else is written to look awful. Instead of real characters with believable motivations you just get extremes people who are cartoonishly evil on one side and unrealistically perfect on the other.
The ending is probably the most frustrating part. Everything conveniently wraps up into a neat “everyone is happy” resolution( in the novel) like some kind of Disney ending(thats not a bad thing if written properly buts this story is not) but there’s no real development that earns it Conflicts appear out of nowhere and then get resolved just as conveniently without any real consequences or growth
What really makes it irritating is how disconnected the story feels from reality. The way people behave, the way situations unfold, and the way problems get resolved just don’t resemble real life at all (specially how the teachers act and the mabye most characters). At some point it stops feeling like storytelling and starts feeling like pure delusion. Honestly if someone spent a little more time outside interacting with real people instead of reading stuff like this nonstop they’d probably realize just how ridiculous and poorly written this whole thing actually is
please stop calling this peak because its absolutely not

Kosmo says:

Endo is THE GOAT. literally undebatable

Alfred says:

the romance ain’t romancing 😭

(not that I complaining, tho)

Meeekoo says:

So basically, 15% romance, 30% politics and 65% revenge. The romance between the mc and fmc seems like forced, the author states the lovey-dovey part between them then after that it becomes politics, schemes and revenge. The tags in the novel is quite inaccurate. It’s not even considered daily life since there are more politics and revenge rather than the daily life of the mc and fmc. The mc mostly didnt even do anything at all during the revenge part. It’s literally all side characters doing the work. At first I was looking forward to the slice of life and romance between the mc and the fmc, but until now it’s still all about politics and revenge. When the romance part shows up, both main characters always talk the same thing, if i sum it all up it’s “I’m glad I met you that day” over and over again. In the end the novel is all about revenge, justice and politics. There is minimal romance.

Edward Mendez says:

i dont like it. i just wish this manga is trash and anyone hurt themselves. -10 >:(

Suherman Joshua says:

I’m curious about how Korean publishers promote their novels. The Korean market is relatively small, so many people outside Korea discover these novels on pirate websites. Now, publishers are sending DMCA takedown notices to shut those sites down.

Chingaruna says:

Huh. I just get to see this after reading the manga and such but….huh. This one is even more harsher than I assume. I also heard that there is an LN version of this series and it is an abridged version of the WN version but….

Wonder if there is some at least have a happy end about this. I dunno. Might gonna read the whole series to find out

Osten says:

Japanese regret novel always feel like reading a children fairy tale, because everything is so convenient and predictable. It’s a fine read to pass time but expect a linear story.