The Crazy Daughter of the Duke's Family

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[Season Two starting on 13th of April, 2026 with original Schedule]

All She Wanted, Was toLive-DeathGave Her a Second Chance

Celia had fought creatures called "Visitors" for as long as she could remember. Together with Pan, a Visitor of Special Grade himself, her single goal was to survive.

Yet after dying an unexpected death one day, she woke up and found herself as that one inconsequential, short lived villainess from "The Saintess' Unbreakable Shield" - a novel she used to read. Rowena Dynari van Varnhagen, the daughter of the only Grand Duke of the Arlen Empire.Said villainess, equipped with a few minor... personality quirks, offended the female lead at the beginning, and was promptly cut right out of the story. What now?

Determined not to let people trample on, and use her again, Celia - no, Rowena - decides to fight for a life worth living.

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Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: TheKillingAlice

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
Followers: 134
Views: 125,653

Chapters(87 total)

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Community Reviews(5)

FurioRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I was initially a little worried for the score relatively low and some critical review, but after some chapters I decided that the novel is instead very good. The story is well written, the magic mechanic is original, the secondary characters have some depth and the MC is likeable. There is also a clean and rational explanation of why the MC soul reincarnated in a world that is like a novel that she read.
The first chapters however have some problem and can make you leave the novel, I advise you to continue instead because the novel is good and deserve a bit of patience.
The problem, in my opinion, is that that author is a little too radical in the pursue of the commendable goal to avoid any infodump. He want to give the information about the MC inside the flow of the story, and this is surely a good practice but the practical implementation make the first chapters confuse and really difficult to read. I think that if he didn't killed immediately the MC in the first page, in a completely incomprehensible context, but let she die in a mission after a full chapter and some interaction with Pan the following chapters could have been easier to read.
Marshall75Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Interesting, enjoyable, well written, thought-filled fantasy with great characters, world building, and a suspenseful and engaging plot. The MC has a nice mix of competence, toughness, mystery, tragedy, and great inner dialogue. The antagonists are something like undead eldritch horror beings. A force of nature with a totally different mindset than living humans. Not evil per se, but certainly very dangerous and powerful. There’s also a lot of nasty nobles and corrupt church members, petty bandits and bullies so the MC always has something to deal with. It’s kind of Isekai / villainous noble lady genre, but not quite. More like multiverse earths with different degrees of science and magic and the villainous lady from a book doesn’t have a huge impact on the story. It gives her some extra knowledge of events to come and experience dealing with the problems that plague her new world, but she’s not a dumb MC who is terrified of some inevitable fate and she never regards her reality or the people in it as a dumb light novel with absurd characters. However, she’s from another world and can view everything more objectively than anyone else. She’s also not OP. She has a lot of strengths, but is quite vulnerable to powerful beings and political realities of their world. So I give it 2 big thumbs up, for whatever it’s worth. I read a few hundred volumes of this kind of genre and give an unqualified recommendation. I’m surprised it hasn’t been read by more people, and I hope for its success.
Ystol's_DecreeRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
Good world building, good story, no cardboard cutouts (Characters). Beautiful showing & telling. When/if it reaches around 75- 100 chapters I'll do a advanced review I'm loving it so far.
On another note, RR needs to let people do short reviews, a little annoying when you're trying not to say much till you read more
Mani FisherRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
First: this is not really my genre. That said.
Overall a confusing premise with very little setup that tried to juggle far too many characters. I understood precisely nothing about the first chapter except that, by their estimation, the MC was named Celia. Who is dead? I enjoyed the twist of the transmigration, that the story she migrated to said that the duke's daughter had died from pneumonia when that was a way to hide that she died from suicide. Some of the promises are interesting, like how the MC will need to learn etiquette and such. But when it came time to learn I found myself straining to read, and then there's when the perspective started to jump around.
Pros: nice twist, unique to take them from a slightly magical futuristic world to a more magical victorian one, steampunk, awesome cover and stunning signature from the author.
Cons: inconsistent character, too many characters, lack of compelling voice, jumping perspectives without warning or introduction, paragraph organization doesn't make sense.
I hope the author improves as they keep going. I advise they watch a bunch of Ellen Brock on youtube.
TheRaithRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
This story tries to do way too many things and ends up disorganized at best. There's an underlying ruleset the world is following that the reader isn't introduced to. There are questions with no relevance to the story which should be answered that just aren't. There is no motivation related to the main character. Everything ends up open ended in a way that makes me think the author is trying to be mysterious, but instead comes across as confused.
There is no foundation that the story builds off of. The MC is dumped in a new world with no way to get her bearings or any reason to want to get her bearings. It's like the story is trying to spray out the first twenty chapters of content in whatever method it can while hoping the story is comprehensible.
For the combat scenes, it feels like the author doesn't have a good grasp of time. The characters freeze 'in a daze' often even when they have absolutely no reason to. There are some sentences that have all the correct words but somehow feel like they don't explain anything. And the random paragraphs of exposition for why the monsters are appearing feel entirely unwelcome and only add to the confusion. There's a chapter with a dream sequence that ends up feeling almost exactly like the moments when the MC is fully conscious and basically made me put down the story. I couldn't follow the plot, I didn't understand the antagonists, and there wasn't any explanation for how the magic worked. I don't recommend this unless you have literally nothing else to read.