Usually, I dislike characters with her personality; bubbly, too energetic, naive and too innocent for their own good, a bit on the dumber side. But surprisingly, I actually like her a lot. She's childish but not in a bad way. She is weak but not weak enough to make her pitiable. For short, she's a mess but I like her for that.
And I absolutely adore how sweet and warm her relationship with the prince feels. The prince is also a great character; finally a "cold" ML that doesn't treat the FL like trash at the beginning.
To be honest, this story feels like the POV of a side character from another story. You know, like the isekais where the MC reincarnate as the villain, Solleia in our case, and our princess would be the clingy lover/concubine of the prince. If the story would have been from Solleia's POV, it would have been one of the "reincarnated as the villain" tropes; we would have liked Solleia and disliked the princess.
Don't know about the last point. Most of the villainous stories are about women that aren't that bad in the first place. Only a few are about one's that did something terrible and even they change their ways when they live again etc. What solleia is doing is objectively evil. Moreover unlike the other clingy side characters our MC isn't secretly a bad person. Technically she didn't even take an proper steps harm the villain. Neither is she secretly a bad person like other concubines.
You'll find a better translation from chapter 82 up to 89 here: https://zeroscans.com/comics/28025-the-monster-duchess-and-contract-princess
Sadly, the latest chapters aren't translated. I don't know if the Scanlators dropped the story or if it's just taking them longer to translate it.
So, can someone spoil me and tell me if the Emperor got his memories back and if everything is going well? I dropped it around the time he lost them because of frustration and I wanna pick it up again
after claude loses his memories athanasia runs away right. then later on claude sorta givs in and says its alright for her to stay at the place. but he starts having these really bad headaches, and the only way to make them go away is for him to spend time w jeanette, which he does. anyway some chaps later claude faints (idr how this happens) and remains asleep for idk how many chaps. he just woke up in the latest chap (athy saves him)
he fainted cause that dude with the black hair at the dukes house (aka the "late" emperor) put a curse on jeanettes bracelet and when jeanette met up with claude, the black magic affected him. athy does some ritual and defeats the black magic inside claude with a branch of the world tree and she also meets her mum and the reason why claude isnt dead yet is because diana (the mum) has been accompanying him the whole time
I'm so sad:( I don't want any of them to get hurt anymore