Is Diana's Dearest Is the Family's Favorite Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read

Overview

Lia has lived this part of her life before. She remembers the orphanage, remembers the day a lost duke's daughter named Diana arrived there, and remembers — with the specific, low-grade shame that only hindsight provides — that she looked away while Diana was mistreated by the other children. Sent back to that exact point in time, Lia doesn't get a mission or a system or a convenient power-up. She gets the chance to not look away this time.

Diana's Dearest Is the Family's Favorite takes the regression premise, which usually fuels revenge plots or power fantasies, and points it somewhere smaller and more personal: one relationship, rebuilt from the point where it broke the first time.

What it does well

The comic's clearest strength is how specific its emotional hook is. A lot of "second chance" webtoons start from a general sense of unfairness that needs correcting; this one starts from a single, concrete regret that Lia has clearly been carrying for a long time. That specificity does a lot of quiet work — you understand exactly why she attaches herself to Diana before the comic explains anything about dukes or family politics, because the guilt reads as real rather than as a plot device.

The relationship itself is built patiently. Rather than having Lia swoop in and fix everything in one dramatic gesture, the story lets the bond develop through the accumulation of small choices — showing up, noticing things, not flinching — which gives the eventual closeness between them real weight instead of borrowed sentimentality. When the story moves the two of them into House Ellad, it reads less like a reward and more like the next test of whether Lia can keep showing up once the stakes change from an orphanage to a noble household full of new expectations.

It's also a useful contrast to the genre's revenge-heavy default. There's no satisfaction here in watching old tormentors get their comeuppance — the comic is more interested in whether Lia can become the kind of person her regret says she should have been, which is a gentler but no less compelling engine for a story.

Where it falls short

That gentleness comes at a cost early on. Readers who come to the regression genre wanting momentum — a confrontation, a clear villain, an early power shift — may find the opening chapters slow, since the comic is more interested in Lia's internal repair than in external conflict. Once the setting shifts to House Ellad, several new characters arrive in a short span, and not all of them are given enough room yet to feel like more than set dressing for Lia and Diana's story.

Verdict

If you want a second-chance webtoon that actually earns its warmth instead of rushing toward a twist or a takedown, Diana's Dearest Is the Family's Favorite is a patient, sincere read. It trades the genre's usual payback thrill for something quieter — and for the right reader, that's the better trade.