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This is a spin-off, a side story, an alternate timeline. A much darker timeline than the original webnovel. This is the 'what if' Maria route. What if the MC chose to instead get along with Maria (his sister from irl). Why is this darker? simply cause it chooses to add in the previously skipped or brushed off matters.
What happens to the MC in the prologue is the same, yet the undertone which was played up for comedy is now shifted to be more serious. That he collapsed because he wanted to fulfill his sister's wish. That this led the sister to a downward spiral with the family disowning her because of how she kept deceiving them. That she got into an abusive relationship, losing custody to her own daughter and now her new boyfriend knocked her head against a pole thus killing her.
I will temper your expectations a little tho, because right after being 'reborn' it seems the sister is more insistent on 'i deserve a better life' instead of seeking redemption or atonement. Which just seems a bit oddly tone deaf.
Regardless, I am very excited to see where this goes. It is the kind of twist I wanted to see in the original series, even if I understand why the author chose not to do it... till now.
Unfortunately, it looks like this is a straight-to-LN release, which means god only knows when the next installments will come out, if they do at all depending on the commercial success.
Preemptively I will give this a fair 8 out of 10. It is written well, descriptive, a show-dont-tell kind of feeling at least from the little that is available till now.
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