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Is it worth reading?Absolutely yes! If you want a story about a proactive & clever FL who isn't a damsel in distress with a lot of face-slappings, then this is for you. Oh, and with a side dish of fluff childcare & heartwarming romance.What I like about this novel:• Rosie (the FL) is clever, cunning, and knows self-worth 👏🏻 Despite her suffering from PTSD, she is strong-willed and is active in protecting the people she loves and changing both her and their lives for the better.• The FL claps back in a sly and satisfying way. Whatever the enemy does to her, she makes sure to return it back tenfold. Even when she's suddenly met or blamed for an incident, she quickly devices a plan to get out of the mess and turn it back to the enemy/real culprit.• Rosie expresses her feelings clearly, both in action and in words. If she misses her brother, she visits him and tells him upfront that she misses him. She also sent an engagement letter to ML, made the engagement happen, and even confessed in front of him at their first meeting in her second life.• Capitalism is the best! HAHAHA• Schulva and his workaholic-masochism tendencies 😂 I'm a bit saddened that he didn't have much screentimes tho 🙁• Rosie is proactive in helping the people she cares about. I like that she's helping them out of genuine affection and not for the sake of her benefit nor revenge.• There's a moral lesson in the story. "There is no such thing as an original position. If one worked hard and endured, their position would be what they achieved." — Rosie Noart• The interactions between Rosie and Zahid (ML) are cute and funny. Rosie is so frank about her feelings that she says stuff like "We let time pass like this and get married" and "As expected, you must have fallen for me at first sight" every chance she gets. The rizz is UP 😂 Even when Zahid denies whatever she says and acts like a tsundere, she's undeterred.• Count Caliburn Noart, Rosie's grandather, despises the temple but he isn't prejudiced with Rosie's origins. He treats and accepts her as a Noart.• The romance is heart-warming ❤️ I can't help but cheer for the two 🫶🏻• Pacing is good. It's not too slow nor too fast.What I don't like about this novel:• Narration is more on tell than show.• Villains/enemies are third-rate at best. It's clear that they're just minor villains to make the FL's cleverness shine. I personally prefer equally clever & sly villains since it's more thrilling to read. I never know who will win when the MC & villain clash. It makes me more expectant how the MC will outsmart the villain's clever schemes. Idk about the high priest (main villain) tho.