So I have been on Wattpad for a few years now. I'm on it almost everyday, it's like a drug to me. However, ever since I joined, I have seen the ups and downs of the fanfics and their specific fandoms/series, and Wattpad in general.
So what did I do...
And speaking of Sanghee, she's kinda mean spirited in the novel, and bit of a bitch, honestly. The manhwa version of her is a lot more likable, and I genuinely felt that she was changing as well. I mean, yeah, she's still snarky and throws insults left and right in her head, but it at least makes sense given the situations she finds herself in, often by accident. The most important aspect though? She actually acknowledged that she always wasn't the greatest person towards the people she cared about. In the novel, she starts out shallow and never really develops from that point. Case in point: during her second coming of age ceremony, Hwanseok starts torturing the girls there after a misunderstanding and in the novel, the most Sanghee ever does is internally complain about how much of a jerk Hwanseok was being. In the webcomic, Sanghee comes to the realization that there's no point in acting cute and smiling a lot if it's just solely for self-preservation and that someone needs to be the change for the women in their world. It's more nuanced and I found it easier to actually root for Sanghee.
Idk apart from a few epiphanies, i never saw her growing throughout the novel. Not to mention, her relationship with her half sisters was a little more fleshed out in the webcomic adaptation than the novel. The novel from my perspective, made her half sisters look like Sanghee's worshippers more than anything.
I admit the comic is a little more light hearted in comparison to much darker and twisted tone of the novel (compare Sanghee getting strangled by Prince William in the manhwa vs her nearly getting raped by him in the novel). I can also see how Freesia dying at the end of the novel was a more realistic end, but the way the novel handled her character and the other woman characters in general was honestly abysmal.
Honestly, the general consensus seems to be that novel had good ideas but didn't know how to execute it well. I agree with that consensus. The manhwa actually changed quite a bit regarding the Saint stuff, but I get the feeling that things were changed in the comic depending on what would be a natural progression of plot and world building. The comic adaptation was initially adapting the novel by the letter (with some changes in characters' behaviors, namely, Hwanseok's wife), but the later parts, especially by season 3, you could definitely say that it was adapting the spirit of the plot, cause the novel ending is drastically different from the comic adaptation.
There was a really sweet moment between Sanghee and her dad in the later half of the og novel that the comic didn't adapt though, and I'm sad, tbh.
(Did I really create a rant about reincarnation webcomics just to rant about only one? I suppose.)
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Alright, alright, I'm kidding, I do have more to say on the topic.
Lately, a lot of the reincarnation comics I've read are the ones that has the main lead return back in time for unexplainable reasons. These are normally called regression isekai (I think) but personally l like to dub them as reset reincarnation comics, because instead of being reincarnated into a new life, they are essentially sent back in time in the same life to repeat it.
