Spoiler
Turns out she is cursed to have the same situation in every reality (estranged from family, the parallels are heavily implied). After she finishes and marries the ml (i wont spoil abt this one), she has the chance to go back to her old life but chose not to (since she’s already happy with both her family and love life)
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After defeating the final boss, Penelope is shown what happened in her original world after she fell into the game. It turns out that her original self was very, very, sick and she had become so accustomed to being ill and in pain she never realized how sick she was. When she "fell" into the game, her original body had actually fallen into a coma. After her body was found by her friends/coworkers when she stopped coming to university/work, doctors revealed to her original family that she was literally dying from the the abuse they had inflicted on her since she came to their family at 12 years old. This made her family realize just how horrific their actions were and that they did care about her enough to want her to live. They tried everything to save her and bring her out of the coma, but it had come down to her waking up or not.
Penelope watches them begging her to wake up: promising that if she does they will be the proper family she has always deserved. Penelope is offered the choice to return to her original life (where she will wake up from the coma) or stay in the game world as Penelope (causing her original body to finally die in the coma). Despite the promise of her original family's love, Penelope chooses to stay in the game world with the family and people who have come to love her and who she has come to love in return.
Does anyone know if she ever goes back to her old life and faces her real family?