The fact that a major love interest is a member of the royal family means solving the friend's murder is still very much in the cards.
We're going to find out, I promise you. Once the prince finds out what they suspect happened, he's gonna act as the man on the inside.
Can absolutely grow into green eyed brunettes.
The author clearly didn't know that, so we spend dozens of chapters with the dad completely overlooking his own daughter because of a trait a real white person would be aware she might have grown out of.
I didn't realise this was esoteric Euro knowledge, but apparently it's our 'babies have blue butts'.
(No, seriously, sometimes East Asian babies have blueish coloured bottoms when born. I don't recall exactly why, but it's a real thing.)
But... Is it just me or does the FL lean into the Sue-ish?
I'm not even sure that's it, I just find how she has the perfect plan for every situation uncanny. Yes she has foreknowledge, but that doesn't really cover the perfect strategizing.
Honestly, everything kinda of feels like an ass pull with post hoc justifications of 'marketing experience' and the foreknowledge. Like they're excuses rather than actual character traits.
Just find it weird.
FL is just ... Too annoying.
Also, sorry, but I have a hard time buying these love stories in settings with polygyny. "Ooh, they're true love (but he might marry another woman later down the line anyway)." Runs exceptionally hollow.
Well, unless the late Duke was casually divorcing these women after one kid each.
It's a real shame, I want to like it more, but the name thing is too silly for me to take the implicit threat seriously and the implicit threat is throwing off the farce.
Close, but no calmative in cigar form.
Women's clothing having small or no pockets is an entirely modern phenomenon.
In the eras that the fashions in this webtoon come from, women had massive pockets. They wanted more pockets, but they definitely had pockets.
A mild annoyance, but at least it's not someone using the chemise a la reine to get out of wearing corsets despite that style of dress both predating tightlacable corsetry and being worn with stays again. So that's something
It comes across less like censorship and more like they just forgot to draw in the nips
A much as I like this story, and I do!, it does occur to me that the author was a, kidnapped, b, forced to relive the same events multiple times, c, met with heart break and failure when she did try to change it, and d, actively insulted when someone new finally showed up to help her change things.
And why were all these things done to her? Oh right, she wrote a fictional story with a Mary-Sue protagonist.
Also, if this translation is accurate, she was a highschooler (or at least very recently one) who was kidnapped, imprisoned and insulted by grown ass women.
No wonder she snapped.
Pretty sure if Rhyse had a, tried to bring someone to play Edith in sooner and b, been more discerning in picking who, we could have avoided all of this. (Don't bullshit me, that first woman was the one who decided to keep torturing the author and Cliff. She was never the right choice for this job.)
He was understandably suspicious of her at first and has grown to love her quite naturally.
He’s also kinda dumb.
Anyway, I get Witch Hazel is a pretty standard joke, but since this is Hansel and Gretal, all we’re missing is a wise cracking rabbit and a confused prince. (And we do kinda have the latter)
Yes, I am sad I’ve lost easy access to stories whose names I can’t quite remember.
But… my ‘now reading’ list had so much in it that I was getting overwhelmed by the updates.
It’s hard to be truly sad when the error has saved me the effort of sorting through dozens of manga et al.
I guess the silver lining is eating the cloud for me ╮(￣▽￣)╭
You know for a guy who, as far as he knows, raped a sleeping woman.
Pure trash. Don’t recommend for anyone who can’t turn their brain completely off.
My brother in Christ, she has protagonist hair. You should have given her a wig.
She’s a child abuse victim with deep seated self esteem issues who has spent her life under the impression that she can never have a healthy relationship.
Cut her some slack, she learns from her mistakes. Just takes a minute.
I’m tapping out at ch 45
It’s not just the massive personality change she’s weirdly disinterested in, she isn’t at all curious how he’s even there?
I can’t get over how him not just physically being a match, but actually knowing who she is and having a very obvious established attachment to her didn’t absolutely floor her. I just can’t relate to this, I’d have so many questions. Like ‘hang on, are you originally from here?’.
But maybe author-nim didn’t want to have her ask questions that would establish him as a human trafficking victim so the relationship drama about his behaviour in the country he was tricked into going to, imprisoned in and forced to fight for could be dragged out as long as possible. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Is she smart enough to realise the mage was trying to get one over on her, or too stupid to not be insanely suspicious to the ML? Because that intro section where she apparently didn’t tell the villagers to send the knights her way, or told the guy about the tattoo made her seem like a blithering idiot. Which I could live with, tbh, I can go for an idiot protagonist lucking her way through life. But don’t then act like she’s outmanoeuvring high ranking scholars. Pick a lane.
Whilst I’m here, why are there so many of these where the title is ‘I’m the (step)mother’ but the story tells you five minutes in that the kid is actually the child of the ML’s dead sister or brother. Is this some kind of bizarre purity culture? Just give the man a dead wife. Especially since the dead sister ends up functioning in exactly the same way a dead wife would.