Title: Aku no Kadou wo Ikimashou (Let's Go on the Evil Runway.); Let's walk on the flowery path of evil Alternative Title: the Flowery Path of Evil Available forms/media: https://mangadex.org/title/01ea7299-112c-41f4-b2a0-6d28c272deef/aku-no-kadou-wo-ikimashou Link to official raws: https://comic.pixiv.net/works/7897 Link to NU: (not applicable); original manga Synopsis: Celestine, the villainess, suddenly recalls her memories of her past life when she's at the altar, about to be married off to a Prime Minister twice her age and surrounded by the most awful rumours as a punishment for her misdeeds against the Prince and his lover. She realizes that this is the world of an otome game she played in that previous life, but more importantly than that, she also inherits past life's very specific tastes... Please delete or merge this thread if there is already an existing thread*** Also, MY HYPE IS GREAT. I loved this when it was in a series of anthologies. The new cast of characters are amazing. The girl who tries to harass her husband who flips and becomes her best friend. Her step-son who wants to wait out for his dad's death to steal his stepmom. The orphaned boy who becomes a powerful merchant underneath the MC. The foreign Prince who thinks how hot MC would be as a widow.
Spoiler Table of Contents Placeholder Table of Contents Chapter 1-2: are the same ones in the anthology Chapter 4 & 5 - the foreign Prince doesn’t really like or need love. He’s been disappointed by his beautiful mother (a concubine) who dropped him and spent all her time appealing to the King. He thinks Celestine (MC) until he actually gets to know her. Then he falls for her. HARD. Especially, since MC relishes the role of mother. Something his mother never did. He hopes that one day she will be widow. Chapter 6: we get to see cute family moments since MC’s baby is young mini of the hubbie. The baby rejects both the father and the brother. Only wanting mom. Hubbie wants to win over his kid so he sends his older son and wife for a break. They find a play. It’s a story based on MC and her stepson. The public believes that MC was forced to marry her husband and carrying on an affair with her stepson. The stepson wants to one day make it true but not to the detriment of MC. The writer of the play meets them. MC does stuff and reveals that actually loves her husband. Then she demands that the plan be rewritten to something according to her tastes. Chapter 7: the ML had an actual DADDY of a brother. For an older man he’s SMOKING HOT. He’s also a long time war hero. He tries to seduce the MC while she’s out and about with her friend (the former villainess). It seems he doesn’t believe her love for his brother is real. The MC calls him out. Then we cut to a backstory on the ML. The brother always wanted to be liked so put up with things he didn’t like. While the ML truly didn’t care and seemed content. Then the brother broke swan sculpture and was gleeful about his act. ML saw him and totally chill walked away. The uncle who was a child then shook in his boots thinking his brother would snitch. Then it was the ML who stood up and took the blame. Then put the people around him in his place. The uncle saw himself as weak. Then threw himself into war. People praise his for being a hero but he knows he just slaughtered people. He sees his brother rush MC with an ugly present then realized his brother did find happiness. Anyone is able to edit this post with an account. Please edit this post to link to spoilers in this thread as you find them. You are free to edit and remove anything within this post, including this placeholder text. For more information, please visit: https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/new-spoiler-plugin-for-the-forums.114103/
The Flowery Path of Evil https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/the_flowery_path_of_evil/ (Fan Translated) https://mangabubu.co/マンガ/悪の華道を行きましょう-raw-free/ (RAWS) The age gap is uncomfortable (even considering FMC's real mental age) but I appreciate that the Husband isn't a Fake ugly cursed beast who is actually secretly a slim tall beautiful prince or will turn into a handsome FanRom ML. Examples: How the Masked Earl Fell in Love; My Husband Hides His beauty; The Girl Who Was Forced by Her Stepsister to Marry the Cursed Duke; Precisley I Raise The Duke; I’ll Be The Warrior’s Mother; I Became The Monster Duke’s Second Wife; Let’s Finish What We Started! + The Villainess Wants to Make Her Husband Slim Down. He/The Prime Minister is a middle aged large overweight bald man with his own unique charm.
I'm debating buying the chapters and giving spoilers. The current translated chapters are at volume 13 of the raws while the official raw is at 24. If enough people want spoilers, I'll go ahead and work my way through. I can however confirm Spoiler Celestine does get her memory back by volume 22 so at least 8 chapters of shenanigans.
Spoiler I caved and bought the rest of the chapters in the memory loss subplot. Mc stays with her brother after her memory loss and is confused why she married the prime minister. Her memories are gone up until the arranged marriage. Brother is a hardcore siscon. Her stepson visits and she thinks the marriage was a cover for their possible affair. He makes sure to clarify that they were only good friends. Childhood friend is obsessed with Mc and the reason she loses her memories in the first place. When he was young he had trouble understanding people but Mc talked slowly for him and was a genuine friend. Mc as a child said she would marry a prince and become a princess. He took that personally. Mc is actually irritated that hubbie is avoiding her but hubbie just doesnt want to scare her with his looks. She sends him letters to meet but his responses don't give definite answers. Poor sweet summer child. She decides to move back in after her son gets a fever. Hubbie is still eating his veggies like a good boy. Childhood friend tries to kill stepson and Mc regains her memories shortly after stepson gets stabbed. Childhood friend is caught and arrested. Mc says that he was no different from the prince in that they both had some image of her that wasn't reality. Told him to find his princess somewhere else cause it isn't her. I think he was put on house arrest though don't quote me i kinda speedread and I can't zoom into the pages. Childhood friend decides to mark Mc's heart forever by un-aliving himself in front of her. Hubbie saw this a mile a away and had a servant pose as Mc. Congrats he has now marked a random servants heart forever though I doubt they care. Hubbie tells childhood friend that Mc has no need for him in her life and to sleep softly as he bleeds out.