I’d rather it focus on her trying to get pregnant some more or just more focus on the ML and FL’s relationship. The business side of this manhwa always bored me (lol)
I’d rather spend more time to see if FL is infertile or just has a hard time getting pregnant.
Exactly! The fertility topic was so interesting because its such a huge and important topic. Especially for women of this time, and arguably, even now. But in the end, the author just wrapped it up with the whole love declaration and skirted around this infinitely more interesting topic for the sake of tea and love triangles.
The story could ask about the medical field of this world (they didn't know about vitamin C and scurvy), the treatment of women and their roles/identities in conjunction to childbirth and fertility, the possibility that the problem is with the husband and not her, adoption, childbirth after adoption, etc.
So many interesting topic and the author ran away. Its really disappointing and frustrating.
I kinda like it. It's like when you watch a Youtuber's Vlog and you basically just watch their life. I like how she's introducing new things, and we can basically follow her tea recipes
I genuinely loved this story, but I'm sadly getting bored and tired with these new chapters. My biggest gripe at this point is the fact that there's no real conflict.
The reason why I liked the first half so much was because there were so many problems for her to overcome; first, the awful maid who was pretty much trying to kill her, then the challenges of her living her dream of owning a tea shop, then her dealing with her negative reputation in high society, her rocky relationship with her husband, etc.
But now that all of those problems are resolved, we're just following her live her life and it's not that interesting. It's becoming a slice of life story, and while that's not a bad thing in and of itself, it's not doing a good job of entertaining me with this new story structure. She's not growing as a character and the plot feels like it's at a standstill. Interesting ideas are brought up and also instantly dropped; like her infertility, the scam shop, the poverty-stricken city, her curing scurvy, etc. It's so frustrating seeing all these concepts going nowhere!
It feels like for the last 10 or so chapters, nothing substantial has happened outside of her husband publically declaring his love for her, and even that really hasn't really done anything. It's obviously the setup for a conflict with the Prince, but I'm wishing it'd hurry up and just happen already. I'm finding that I'm rushing through the chapters where she goes on and on about tea and waiting for there to be a real conflict to start.
If the story doesn't hurry up and get going, I'm probably gonna drop this or shelf it until something interesting finally happens. For now, I think I'm gonna go back and reread the chapters I actually liked.