Idk, she doesn't actually have anyone challenging her apart from Reina's people. Everyone else adores her. She uses whatever she knows of the book to her own benefit. She even got a dress selection scene with the ambassador's family where everyone fawned over her specifically instead of showing them dividing attention equally between her and their own very recently returned daughter. She asks the first prince what Reina sacrificed for him, but MC didn't exactly sacrifice anything for ML either, and the first prince's suffering was more because MC thwarted his plans more than Reina doing anything. Judging by the plot otherwise, the first prince would have become emperor. MC also supposedly had book knowledge but had no issues letting the 'villain' rot until it concerned her, not exactly kind. It's especially funny how often conversations just turn into MC praising sessions when the villainess did the same thing. Also funny how the emperor gives the first prince grief for dating an adopted daughter of a ducal family, but will likely welcome a viscountess and divorcee from that same ducal family with no issues. The justification for his dislike of Reina is flimsy.
Book Ethel may have been kind, but MC is not really much more of an altruist herself than Reina is. If you really look at the plot, Reina never tries to purposefully harm MC apart from the neglect she received during her marriage, she even intended to bring in MC or at least get her situated somewhere comfortable. Her followers may have escalated, but she specifically never did much against her or ML. She isn't a psychopath as much as someone with deep abandonment issues given god mode, I feel like MC would have been the same way had she been in her shoes. Her powers weren't exactly mind control either, just a goddess wanting to mess around by being her personal monkey paw - she just wished for secure love. Also telling how book Ethel never went looking for her after she ran away from the estate, that speaks to how deep their friendship actually was. I don't blame her for taking a chance at a better life.
The court battle was the most exciting part, after that, it just hits the beats of a lot of regression stories. Not exactly wild about the ML since any pretense of villainy or complexity went straight out the door immediately on introduction. He just orbits her ever since that tea recipe, he has no goals of his own.
Idk, she doesn't actually have anyone challenging her apart from Reina's people. Everyone else adores her. She uses whatever she knows of the book to her own benefit. She even got a dress selection scene with the ambassador's family where everyone fawned over her specifically instead of showing them dividing attention equally between her and their own very recently returned daughter. She asks the first prince what Reina sacrificed for him, but MC didn't exactly sacrifice anything for ML either, and the first prince's suffering was more because MC thwarted his plans more than Reina doing anything. Judging by the plot otherwise, the first prince would have become emperor. MC also supposedly had book knowledge but had no issues letting the 'villain' rot until it concerned her, not exactly kind. It's especially funny how often conversations just turn into MC praising sessions when the villainess did the same thing. Also funny how the emperor gives the first prince grief for dating an adopted daughter of a ducal family, but will likely welcome a viscountess and divorcee from that same ducal family with no issues. The justification for his dislike of Reina is flimsy.
Book Ethel may have been kind, but MC is not really much more of an altruist herself than Reina is. If you really look at the plot, Reina never tries to purposefully harm MC apart from the neglect she received during her marriage, she even intended to bring in MC or at least get her situated somewhere comfortable. Her followers may have escalated, but she specifically never did much against her or ML. She isn't a psychopath as much as someone with deep abandonment issues given god mode, I feel like MC would have been the same way had she been in her shoes. Her powers weren't exactly mind control either, just a goddess wanting to mess around by being her personal monkey paw - she just wished for secure love. Also telling how book Ethel never went looking for her after she ran away from the estate, that speaks to how deep their friendship actually was. I don't blame her for taking a chance at a better life.
The court battle was the most exciting part, after that, it just hits the beats of a lot of regression stories. Not exactly wild about the ML since any pretense of villainy or complexity went straight out the door immediately on introduction. He just orbits her ever since that tea recipe, he has no goals of his own.