Responses
Well, the only reason I could stick with it till the end is because there are no stupid villains who cause trouble for the sake of it (I guess I forgot the medical center director, but eh he's not much of a villain)
Also, credit where it's due, it's not a nasty harem, so there's some saving grace.
The fact that the empress trusts the adopted princess, and several other points make me want to believe that the author originally intended for the princess or someone else to save this story from the stupid plot line.
Well, I can only rate it for the crap that it currently is, rather than something moderately decent that I hoped it could have been.
What garbage did I have to read. What desperate times!
It's like the author deliberately wrote something crappy as a premise hoping to use an 'isekai' plot to fix the mess of the 'original story', but then got lazy and decided to just go with the crappy story instead.
It's an understatement to call it ridden with plot holes or nonsensical developments.
The Duke is a doormat, with no thoughts whatsoever.
The brother is a peice of crap who gave 0 thoughts to his supposed lover or son and took full advantage of the Duke with no remorse.
Astel is a self centred and entitled fool who didn't give any reassurances to the Duke even after they started dating, it's not like she couldn't have said 'he's like a brother'. Even after knowing fully well that the child's mother will die in the future, gave no shits about her, or tried to treat the kid until the last minute saying 'a day later, the kid would have died'. And every plot or event that happens is just so moronic that even plot armour can't fully mask.