On the day of her retirement, history professor Jung Gwinam is hit by a bus as she pushes her daughter out of the way. When she wakes up, she finds herself in a different world, a different time, and even a different body! Now living as Delia, the protagonist of her daughter's novel, she'll have to climb the social ladder to escape life as a peasant. Despite some historical inaccuracies in this fantasy world, will Delia’s extensive knowledge be enough to help her make it back to the real world?
So, it's like if The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess, but it's the writer's judgy mom who gets stuck in the story? And she's a history professor? Also, judging from the opening, a real piece of shit as a parent, wow.
Also it is incredibly on brand for romance manhwa that the way they establish that the setting is ahistorical and that the protagonist is a jerk is through explaining about dukes.
the terrible mom professor who got isekai'd into her daughter's bad romance fantasy has established a promising career as a mentalist, lol
(It's honestly a cool bit to follow a protagonist navigating her isekai setting through the lens of history and sociology rather than through the lens of being a reader or author of fantasy.)
Update on the story where a judgy historian mom gets iskeai'd into her daughter's sloppily researched medieval romance fantasy: She has discovered that, due to the poor world-building I guess, all the books just contain recipes for braised beef short ribs. Incredible.
(What's great here, although not really fully fleshed out yet at the point I'm at, is the tension between the protagonist's attempts as a serious humanities scholar to unpack the world she finds herself in, and her knowledge that in fact those skills are meant to be applied to a real world, whereas she is trapped in a figment of the imagination of a daughter she raised somewhat poorly.)
(By the way it's established in the opening that her daughter did ask her for help with the world-building stuff but she blew her off.)