It really would though once the angelhic plotline comes into place and the Bella x Cedric plot. If who she's with is Albert, a lot of scenes (the boat party, buying angelhic, trying to leave James, cedric fooling Bella, and even James leaving Daphne and the repercussions that had on him to anger the Laurel family) they all make no sense if it's Albert and not someone of a lower family and no ties to the Duke. That was such an odd choice in the manhwa tbh
I think Cedric's uncle will get a different role in the manhwa — maybe he will be the one that start to commercialize the Angelique?
BTW many things are different: Cedric's father dead (if he is dead in the battlefield, the Clarissa's Monastery help was less personal for Cedric), Tez already Bella's lover (when she uses him to hurt Harriet), the orphans already in the convents, Harriet without skin struggles (i want to understand how the manhwa will manage all the soap Clarissa stuff).
Honestly I don't like the manhwa. The characters are best-written in the novel. Cedric is not only a yandere cold man with red eyes: he is kind and he chuckles often thanks to Harriet (with this character design i cannot imagine Cedric laugh, chuckle or smirk).
Harriet is not only a serious woman: she is stubborn, proud, clever, smart: her every move is calculated and above all she prefers to die before to ask for help (in the manhwa she write Trisha without thinking twice, begging to be her guardian).
In the novel, the scene where Cedric offered his help but she refused it, gets totally different vibes. She was trying to suppress her anger, full of desire to get her revenge: she clenched her fists when the talk to him... she laughed in front of him, because he was concerned she could badmouthing him. She showed him all her pride and fierce. And her reaction left Cedric with a stiff face. In the manhwa she was simply serious, calm and in her thoughts she also justified Cedric's actions during the party... and Cedric? He didn't reveal a single thoughts and he seemed to threat her, instead of warning her.

Okay I'm confused about something after reading the novel then coming back to reread earlier chapters here of the manhwa
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Why is Albert the one engaged to Daphne? Wasn't it James? The Kingsley family did not have ties with Laurel family, it was the Cheslow, right? That's why im confused and I feel like this will ruin so many things because so many scenes will not make sense if Bella is with Albert. I don't understand why the manhwa decided to do that