소꿉친구들이 나를 죽이려 한다 [Soggubchingudeur'i Nareul Jug'iryeo Handa]

My Childhood Friends Are Trying To Kill Me #1-7

by Sheep, Jinsa (Illustrator), 양과람

어이없게 죽는 역할에 빙의하는 것도 모자라,
황태자 대신, 다섯 제국 황족들이 모이는 신성 중립 구역에 가게 되었다.

그 말은….
내 소꿉친구들이 나를 황태자, 즉 남자로 알고 있다는 것이다.

“잘 가, 얘들아.”

다시 만날 수 없는 친구들과 작별 인사를 하며 엉엉 울었다.
왜냐면 공식적으로 나(황태자)는 곧 죽을 예정이니까!

얘들아 함께 해서 즐거웠고,
다시는 못 만나겠지만 다들 행복하게 살아!

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그렇게 수년이 흐른 어느 날.
광룡을 무찌른 영웅들이자, 내 소꿉친구들이 날 찾아왔다.

“너냐? 내 친구를 죽인 게?”
“전 황태자를 죽여 놓고, 살인자는 황녀로 호의호식하며 살았다지?”
“최대한 고통스럽게 고문하다 죽여 버리겠어.”
“대답해. 그 애를 왜 죽였지?”

당연하게도 그들은 나를 전혀 알아보지 못했다.
아니, 알아보지 못하는 게 문제가 아니라….

소꿉친구들이 나를 죽이려 한다.

아니, 얘들아 잠깐만!

Genres: Romance, Magic, Fantasy, Genderqueer

ebook

First published February 24, 2021

Reviews

[Ashleigh Klein · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the first half of this, but it really went downhill towards the end. I think my issue is that from the title I expected a little more of her childhood friends trying to kill her... But they actually accepted her identity pretty quickly; then the story devolved into a reverse-harem with two of the men being extremely twisted and definitely need therapy and/or prison time and the woman who is too naive to see it or doesn't know how to deal with it and thus ends up just looking past it, and one man who's so unbelievably daft I don't understand how he could have possibly survived in the world. I honestly just skimmed the last 15 chapters or so so I really don't have strong thoughts on the very end. I do recommend the first half of the book though, lol.

[tator · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5/5 ⭐

Super misleading title and the story started to feel dragged out a quarter way through. I shouldn't have forced myself to finish. I was hoping the male lead was someone else too :/

[Megan Collins · Rating 1 out of 5]

The first half of this one is rather engaging. Horribly sad for the most part but the mashup of transmigrator, regression, otome game, and reverse harem cliches works better than you might first imagine. You want Leila/Leo to succeed in her gambits to survive. She gets to soften some of the trauma for those around her. It seems to not rush key moments but allows for time jumps so you don't spend thousands of words waiting for the story to progress.
However, as the narrative continues it makes weirder and weirder choices. The ingredients required for her alchemy change dramatically. She gets a magical relic finally and then never uses it or returns to to clear her name. Eventually her game system which has been popping out quests, advice, and money requests just seems to disappear. She gets a loan for all the money she needs, her dragons disappear, and the avatar starts routinely swearing, lying, or ignoring her. She will get potions and not use them for some reason. She leaves items out of her storage boxes so they can be stolen or damaged. She says she will leave the next day and stays for a month. Our spunky brave kid becomes a shell of herself and if she does try to make a healthy decision for her self, she literally loses control of her body and is forced to do a thing anyway. It doesn't make a lot of sense.
And then the elephant in the room is that all the relationships of this story become trash. Almost all of the male leads go from tragic heroes to yandere psychos seemingly overnight. They abuse her, kidnap her, threaten her, drug her, physically harm her, and manipulate Leila and she loves them for it. Ugh. Ruth uses strangers and belittles them for a girl he cares about who doesn't honestly care about him just the idea of him. The Emperor remarried and refused to move on full or stay rooted to the past and then murdered his own wife in madness. Her aunt is cheated on. Her uncle can't get over his sister... oh and after promising to protect her from her family caves because the emperor looks sad, forcing her to stay in an environment destroying her. Her dad says he is heartbroken for how he treated her but refuses to listen to her wishes and tries to marry her off after he knows the truth. It's such a toxic mess I was pretty sure the McGuffin wish of the philosopher's stone was turning back the timeline where she drowned herself in the pond like an isekai butterfly effect adaptation. So... yeah, like the other review said... it starts good, but I can't say I enjoyed it as I pushed through to the end.

[elli elli · Rating 2 out of 5]

Tenho opiniões. Primeiramente, já aviso que não consegui achar as side stories, então só posso comentar sobre a main story, que acabou incompleta, com diversos personagens sem finais concretos e sub enredos desperdiçados. Side stories são side stories por um motivo, elas não devem ser uma leitura essencial para a novel, mas claramente nesta elas são. A protagonista tem uma personalidade totalmente compreensível pelo que ela passou, mas são algumas atitudes dela que eu não gostei, como a dificuldade dela de falar firmemente com os amigos e esclarecer mal entendidos (o que ela sempre conseguiu com o imperador???) e a forma como ela ficava totalmente calada e congelada em situações de alta tensão. Achei sim ela menos songa monga que muitas aí, e muita coisa quando aos plots principais foram resolvidas de forma perfeita por ela, os únicos momentos de 'cegueira' dela são aqueles relacionados aos seus 'amigos'. Então chegamos no assunto dos 'amigos', primeiro, desconsidere o título, a situação dele não dura nem mesmo um capítulo até porque a resolução era realmente fácil. Não gostei do fechamento, a autora foi na direção de apenas um ML o que seria bom se ela tivesse dado outros futuros para os que restaram, mas ela não deu. Os coitados vão ficar o resto da vida ao redor esperando uma oportunidade de divórcio. Tenha santa paciência viu. Se fosse para fazer algo assim antes tivesse o culhão de desenvolver um harém reverso logo, que pelo menos saiam todos felizes. É o tipo de destino que em outra novel alguém transmigraria para salvar os protagonistas restantes. Ela acabou dando a eles os mesmos destinos que eles tinham na novel, que era amarem e não serem correspondidos. Um desperdício.
O negócio da mãe...Pra que, sabe?? Eu precisava que essa mulher revivesse? Não, ninguém precisava.
Já me alonguei demais, então em conclusão: A história te prende muito no início e é honestamente boa. Depois fica parada e frustrante. Depois extremamente parada e sem ir para lugar nenhum. Fecha frustrante. Não vale a leitura.

[Ezgi T · Rating 2 out of 5]

It’s done but at what cost...?

Also the title is false advertising: “My Childhood Friends Are Trying to Kill Me” doesn’t even take up one arc the story. It took 2, maybe 3 chapters for the ‘childhood friends’ to go from “I will kill you” to “I will follow and help you”.

Also at first Kalix was a somewhat dumb but funny character to read about, towards the middle he became a stone wall with no listening skills. I went from thinking he’s the best option for the ML to “Please don’t pair Lelia with him, please”.

I have too many opinions about the entire thing, but I’m too lazy to actually write them down. Basically tho: this plot has so much potential and 98% of it is unrealized. There were a few scenes here and there that seemed to grasp at the overall potential, but in the end everything just fell short.

Edit: Also, I’m sure they won’t see it, but I still want to thank the translators at Rain of Snow for translating this book. Without their efforts, I wouldn’t have the opportunity to witness this hot mess. I truly appreciate it.

[Valentina Durval · Rating 5 out of 5]

This one is absolutely so good!the people who hated/disliked it don’t understand the complexity of the story. The characters are extremely complex and also I’ve seen a lot of people being mad over the protagonist being “naive”
But actually she isn’t naive for forgiving Griffith for the bad things he did. She’s extremely traumatized and the only reason why she didn’t kill herself like she did in her past life was the thought of her friends, now imagine one of the people who gave you reason to live does bad things to you. But you can’t bring yourself to hate them because they are special to you, more than anybody else. That’s my opinion

[Pixel Dust · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book started out great amazing even I must say, well but in later chapters I think the author really played roulette with chapters and plot. Griffith lustful bastard (I bet he wanted 3 some with the FMC), The MMC Oscar dude was over himself and he made his trauma his whole trauma and Calix man was just very big overgrown child who sees things with his leisure. The only normal person was Romeo and that's why I liked him as the endgame.
Well FMC I bet I can trust my 12 year old neighbor kid to make better life choices for sure

[Dimple readers · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wtf, dari 4 cowok kandidat ML dia milih oscar? Kenapa milih satu coba kalau bisa semua wkwkw and for the emperor .. fck u.. karma datang menghampirimu. And for yuliana .. emang akhirnya dia menyaksikan ortunya eh maksudnya the step father and her mother divorced.. mamam tuh makanya punya emak jangan sering selingkuh.. terus apa pula itu dia nuduh nuduh leila ngambil hak dia sebagai princess? Hellow emang yang harusnya princess itu leila buka elu yuli .. sebel banget dah.. tuh ambil si root gak butuh, leila punya 4 noh mamam tuh cuman 1

[Cassie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm a victim of this. The manhwa cover baited me into thinking "oh this decent guy is the male lead" so I began reading it and found out HE ISN'T EVEN THE MALE LEAD AT ALL.

Anyways, I was convinced I have to read the manhwa until the end but then I realised oh my god it gets even worse. Of course, Oscar is the male lead since he fits the stereotype of the emo and sad male lead with a depressive background... what was I expecting. 3/5 because it gave me entertainment.

[✨Selena Yukino✨ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Rating: 1.0 stars

So disappointing :(

[Marina · Rating 5 out of 5]

gostei muito mais doq outras novels q li ano passado, porém não li as side stories pq acabei não achando elas.

[LitLush · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing ending the start and middle were good it had so much potential just fell short in alot of ways and unnecessarily destroyed good characters.