The past two posts I’ve written have spoken about romances that go nowhere. But it can get worse – you can have a romance that goes nowhere repeatedly. That’s if you’re masochistic enough to read “My Fiance is in Love with My Little Sister” (婚約者は、私の妹に恋をする).
Summary (from novelupdates)
Aah, again? My fiancé was gazing intently at my charming younger sister. When I saw the blaze that lit up in those cold eyes, I was assaulted by deja vu. My fiancé had been in love with my younger sister even in the last life. There was nothing I could do but watch. And, by some karma, I was someone who kept returning to that exact moment.
Right, so, it’s exactly what it says in the title and in the blurb. There’s this lady… and it’s been a long time since I read it so I don’t remember any of their names. Guess I’ll google it. Okay, the lady is Ilya, and nobody can be bothered to mention her fiancé or her sister’s name, so I’ll call them F and S.
Basically Ilya has been reliving her life over and over again from the point where F meets S and falls in love with her. The sad (?) thing is that, despite knowing that F will inevitably fall in love with S, Ilya can’t help loving him or wanting to be his wife. In her early lives, she kicks up a fuss, turns into a villainess and gets dumped/executed/something messed up like that.
In subsequent lives, she tries different things like pretending she doesn’t know about the relationship – but sis dies somehow and everyone thinks she did it. In another life, she attempts to flee the marriage, but gets sold into prostitution and dies an ugly death. After another, she goes mad upon losing her child. In still another… I forget, but either way her attempts to escape from this loop of losing her fiancé to her sister end in failure.
Eventually, after several loops, a mysterious man/crow (Karasu?) shows up. And heavy hints are dropped that her fiancé, at least, is being controlled somehow. In one loop there are several occasions where he feels one way, very fond of Ilya, but is physically unable to say so or act lovingly. It’s like something takes over him and prevents him from doing what he wants. In a sense, he’s a victim of the loop as well. But who set up the endless time loop? Why? How long will it go on? Why is Ilya forced to fall in love with F and F with S?
Welp, don’t think you’re ever going to find out, because My Fiance is in Love with my Little Sister just goes around in circles for ages without ever addressing the key questions. Most likely the author hasn’t a clue so s/he is just buying time while figuring something out. I forget around which chapter finally made me drop it, but eventually the author got tired of Ilya’s story and started writing some nonsensical gibberish about the crow… I think? Either way, there’s only so much glurge and tragedy a person can wade through before they get tired and start wanting either a conclusion or an explanation.
I checked the details on novelupdates and the web novel is still running at 55 chapters with no updates since February 2021. So… you just want a repeated tragedy of Ilya, F and S, and someone getting killed somehow, welp, go ahead. Just don’t expect satisfaction from it. It’s just weepy romantic tragedy. Ilsa simply can’t move on from F, F simply can’t move on from S, so it’s not even one of those “I’ll be happy in my next life!” or “I’ll live a slow life in the countryside!” deals. There’s zero satisfaction or lasting joy to be found in My Fiance is in Love with my Little Sister, so prepare yourself.
