The Corrupted Beauty Is Actually Me

In retrospect, this was the swan song of the yandere archetype.

Initially, I was really looking forward to a "rejection-type yandere" story because the author's descriptions of the murders in the first volume were amazing... But the third volume clearly didn't live up to that. My ideal "rejection-type yandere" plot would be something like this: High school student Liu Lili is lively and cheerful, the class beauty, and loves making friends, while Lu Lele is pretty but gloomy and socially awkward. After witnessing the male class president confessing his feelings to Liu Lili, Lu Lele secretly and cruelly murders him, showing Liu Lili a part of the "class president." Afterwards, Liu Lili lives in Lu Lele's shadow, afraid to have too much involvement with anyone for fear of being hurt by Lu Lele...

First, the author made a foolish decision: to change the worldview in each volume, and each worldview deviates from reality. This resulted in the last three volumes becoming overshadowed by other worldviews. The yandere element lost its appeal, and the worldviews and emotional arcs faltered. Second, the author extended the time of each save point, reducing the possibilities for yandere actions and the interesting and engaging world-building, choosing instead to focus heavily on constructing the worldview and background (a major reason why the first volume was so brilliant was that it depicted all the mistakes the protagonist made within a particular type of yandere, ultimately constantly refining herself and completing an ultimate performance). Third, "...

It would be a disservice to this novel not to turn it into a visual novel; I should immediately give it all the biblical support I can offer, except for physical objects.

Where's the promised depressing atmosphere? 😭 What everyone wanted was a suffocatingly oppressive, relentlessly threatening woman who'd resort to violence at the drop of a hat or drive her lover to the brink of madness. To be fair, I actually quite enjoy each volume with a different worldview, even incorporating magic or cultivation elements; it helps avoid aesthetic fatigue. However, the last two volumes clearly veered off course. The latter half of the second volume is particularly off-topic, focusing primarily on world-building and even depicting battle scenes. What I wanted to see was the female protagonist using meticulous schemes to gradually erode her lover's hope, ultimately emerging to claim her heart, not watching a madwoman's revolution (and I want to advise the author to avoid this kind of writing as much as possible...).

I finished this book at 3 AM. I followed it from the very beginning of its serialization. As a hardcore yandere fan, I was instantly hooked, and I vividly remember the blissful feeling I experienced. Back then, the first volume wasn't even finished, and I read it over and over again, even though I knew the plot by heart. It was practically a book that hit my G-spot. However, I didn't follow it chapter by chapter like that. For various reasons, I took a break from the online world for a while. When I came back, it was almost finished—and as usual, I read it five or six times. Although there were many regrets along the way, and I wasn't satisfied with the ending, it's still a book I loved so much www, so I wanted to...

While it's described as a yandere story, the yandere element is only truly felt in the first volume; the others are relatively weak and mostly theoretical, so the impact isn't particularly strong. The plot is also problematic. The second volume is a complete failure, focusing primarily on macro-level themes like feudalism and the Industrial Revolution, while the yandere element is completely absent. The plot to win over Lily also fizzles out… The cultivation aspect of the third volume is merely mediocre and lacks any real highlights. The brilliance of the first volume and the poor quality or mediocrity of the second and third volumes made me completely uninterested in the fourth volume. The library scene in the fourth volume…

Volume 1 is phenomenal; I've never seen such high-quality first-person yandere (yuri) narratives. It perfectly portrays the various insane behaviors and eventual fate of a yandere. The psychological descriptions paired with the mad actions are incredibly vivid and nuanced, exceeding my personal understanding of yanderes. Volume 2 is passable; the plot progresses quickly, but the psychological descriptions are lacking, and the development is largely predictable. Volume 3 so far is just a straightforward narrative, written in just a few chapters, feeling like it could be a single save file. The psychological descriptions are somewhat stiff, and the balance between plot and psychological description is unbalanced. Overall (10 stars: God-tier, 9 stars: Excellent, 7-8 stars: Average for normal novels, ...

It seems like yandere novels never end well; either the problem is downplayed, or they throw in amnesia. Does this mean the author knows there's no good outcome with a yandere? But this is supposed to be anime! Couldn't they have broadened their thinking a bit, ignoring right and wrong, and written a yandere story with a happy ending? Even a clean break would have been better. This in-between feeling is so annoying; I hate compromises. It feels like some kind of agonizing, half-hearted challenge.

The first volume is amazing!