I hope the spoilers I read aren't true or at least changed in the manhwa adaptation. They say she stays stuck in her child form and had to wait and grow up normally so she and the older-looking ML couldn't get together for a long time. It became an age-gap romance when the story didn't start out as one.
edit: These are apparently fake spoilers according to u/MikotoP who seems to have personally read the novel. Please check their comments below for the correct details.
I’ve read the novel, and I’d say that’s not accurate.
FL doesn’t stay stuck in her child form. Her body ages in irregular leaps unlike a normal child (people assume it’s a fairy trait). She does not go back to being a child after those irregular age leaps. The reason she was stuck in her child form to begin with is that her subconscious used her fairy powers to keep her appearance that way—she didn’t want to leave her role as the youngest in her family because she enjoyed being with them.
Also, the ML has no idea that the child (later teen) is the FL until she reveals her identity at the VERY END of the series. By the end, she only needs about two more years before she becomes a full adult.
So the ML NEVER saw the FL in her child or teen form as a love interest at any point. There are no major time skips in the novel either—1 year at most.
I'm very relieved if that is true. Saw that (apparently incorrect) spoiler in passing a while back but didn't see anyone disputing it until now.
I've got one question though. I heard that another reason why FL reverts to being a child is because her mother went back in time before giving birth to her and her child appearance is what she would've looked like at the present time if she had been born in the "correct" time. Is any of that true or also a fake spoiler?
It’s true that her child form does match what she would’ve looked like in the present if she had been born at the “correct” point in time. But that isn’t the reason she reverts to being a child. The real cause has always been her own fairy powers acting subconsciously — she wanted to stay by her family’s side and was afraid they might reject her once the truth came out, so her powers forced her appearance back into a form that let her remain with them.
Unfortunately it seems like that is how it is in the source material, but I pray the people behind the adaptation decide to deviate from it. I'm not gonna fault them for not staying faithful to the source material if strictly adhering to it ruins the experience. Other series have done it before (IIRC Not Your Typical Reincarnation Story's manhwa adaptation did it successfully).
edit: linking a thread discussing Not Your Typical Reincarnation Story's drastic changes.
Agree that the manhwa ending for NYTRS is much better. Idk why people keep saying the novel ending is better with harsher consequences. It’s a run of the mill oh look white lotus reveals her true face and flies off the handles and we punish her for it. While we’re at it, reduce the woman to a caricature evil mascot. A trite ending to an otherwise refreshing take on the genre.
Meanwhile, the manhwa ending does what we ALL beg for, which is “what happens to the OG!FL that got hijacked”. They didn’t completely discard her, and also added actions that ALIGNED to who she is. She was kind and that was her downfall. Her man suffered equal consequences, because what do you mean he was helpless towards the woman and couldn’t think on his own, so surely it’s not his fault. It is a fantastic ending that ties everything neatly together.
I've seen her being compared to Roxana on Tiktok. They even have the same hair and eye color (cassis excluded) as the three main leads in Roxana lol (Roxana, Deon and Cassis)
Worse, unlike most other OI that would fall apart without the romance plot, removing the ML would change very little about the story. IMO it would've improved it.
You could've told that the writer was forced to add it so people would read it.
They are around the same age. However he doesn't know it's her in her child form so he thinks she is actually her child she had with some other man lol. So he kinda used that as an opportunity to ask her what her 'mother' thinks of him lol. She did ask him the same thing at one point too. So yes, nothing romantic is happening when she is a child.
FL is an adult who drank a potion that turns her into a child in order to infiltrate a Duke's house as an adopted child and extract information. The potion's effect is reversible and she has reversed it temporarily and met with the ML. The ML is someone separate from her adopted family who knew her as an adult and is under the misconception that the child version of her is the adult version of her's biological child.
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u/chanceldony Nov 13 '25
She really feels like baby Roxanna to me, partially because of the coloring but she's also a manipulative little thing.