Flirting with the Villain's Dad

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Overall, it's a good manhwa - it's entertaining, fun, has an interesting plot and keeps you rooting for the main couple BUT, just like many other manhwas out there, the ending fell kinda flat

Plot:
This story is super cliché, you've probably read it a thousand times, yet like Todd Howard once said "It just works" lol. Typical story of being reincarnated into a novel (before the canon events have started), female lead changes the course of the plot with her shenanigans and gets herself kidnapped instead of her sister, MC realizes she has to seduce the emperor (novel's villain's father) for everyone to have a happy ... ending.
It's simple, it's nothing super innovative, but it works really well. Props to the author for making the MC's shenanigans so entertaining and for turning such a simple plot line into a fun engaging story.
There's no harem or any sort of thing like that

Characters:
MC is the typical klutzy female lead with a heart of gold whose plans/shenanigans always result in funny situations. She's the very incarnation of cute - I know it, you know it, the male lead knows it
Male lead is the handsome, cool but distant gentleman who slowly warms up to the female lead. Man has rizz
The main antagonist is a THOT, but I love her design and she has some respectable traits.
Priest dude is bae. He can't marry, because he's already married to me.

Art:
The art is quite intriguing - the characters are drawn extremely beautifully, but the issue is that the artist clearly didn't have the same type of commitment for the background scenes, so don't be shocked by the hilarious CGI horses or some of the contrasting backgrounds

TL;DR overall, it's a pretty nice read. I recommend it, and would've given it a higher rating if the last arc had been more satisfying. The ending is conclusive though and ties all ends

Flirting With The Villain’s Dad had been an adorable surprise to me.

Differently from the other Isekai, our main girl doesn’t find herself being transmigrated to the story of a novel she once had read, but rather, she was transmigrated to a story she once had read twenty years before the actual plot — when the original main characters haven’t even been born. So the only way she found to deter the tragic enroll of events was to prevent the birth of the villain by, well, flirting with his father, Euredian, the emperor of Bellecourt, and prevent his convenient marriage with Soleia, a powerful yet dark ... magician who was not only the future mother of the villain but the cause of his problematic mindset.

Honestly, it was really adorable at the start. It had just the right amount of comedy plus the romance was on point. I loved seeing Yerenika’s efforts to enchant Euredian, and it was beautiful to see him slowly falling in love with her and becoming so protective. The issue with this manhwa and what makes me unsure if it is a possible recommendation is that when the conflict finally broke, it became boring and tiring. The author dragged it out for chapters and chapters — giving us no real progress. And the lack of communication between Yerenika and Euredian became so messed up during this part that even Euredian himself questioned if he should trust Yerenika as an ally in the final warfare.

But unnecessary drama aside, Flirting With The Villain’s Dad has one of the greatest world-building I have seen in manhwas. The plot didn’t feel half-thought and the magic system made sense — which was such a relief, especially because Your Ultimate Love Rival was my last read.

I would say it’s a read for those who love simp main love interest but don’t care about lack of communication between couples and slow-paced conflicts.

I have been binging a bunch of otome isekai manhwas and that probably influences some of my review. I am just tired of stupid tropes with barely any new content.

The good things
1. Art is nice (initially). Good character designs. But it gets progressively blander throughout the series.
2. Comedy is fine. It won't make you LOL, but it still maintains a light mood even in dangerous situations.
3. lots of romance. It makes up like 75% of this series, although a lot of it is pretty boring.


The bad things
I cannot understate how generic this series is. The characters, plot, settings etc.. are all boring ... as fuck. Lets start with our FL.

Fl was an orphan in korea and her relatives didn't take her in. That's it. She is an incompetent weak lonely pitiful kitten with sad flashback and must be protected by ML 24/7 or she gets into dangerous life-threatening situations. And she is a transparent idiot, so her thoughts are visible on her face which makes her "interesting" to ML. Her fluffy immaturity/childishness is often played for laughs, but it is super annoying considering her age (25 in korea) and the stakes/consequences (her and ML's death).

ML's entire personality is also being lonely because he's burdened with responsibilities of a ruler from childhood and didn't have anyone close. To be a good emperor, he keeps everyone at a distance and won't fall in love. He finds FL "interesting" and as FL gets into dangerous situations, his heart melts and he falls in love. He is actually competent and powerful.

Villainess is the best character. She also has a tragic flashback, but she is unabashedly evil for the sake of her revenge. Unlike our useless FL, the evil villainess uses her brain and works hard for years to succeed. And she has the raw power to go against ML in combat and enough intelligence to keep high society under her control. Her only failure in life was not killing FL or trying to kill FL in the dumbest ways possible.

Except for ML/FL/Villainess, the rest of the cast is irrelevant and has ZERO character development. You can take a character from first chapter and put them in last chapter, and you won't see any difference. Considering the length of the series (140+ chapters), this is truly an achievement.

The story moves at a slow pace, and there are times where the plot just stops progressing for about 10 chapters or so. Nothing really happens except for ML and FL flirting with each other. The series is also riddled with glaring plot conveniences.

Overall
Towards the end, I was just skimming the romance scenes to finish this series and move on. If you like the FL, then you will like the series. If you hate her (like I do), please abandon it early on and read something else.