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I feel like I'm probably gonna drop this. The girl who's meant to be with the male lead is clearly a conniving bitch and the mc can see that, and yet she wants to back off and set her up with the male lead, without any consideration that this woman who has such malice towards you and knows your secret would be extremely powerful and backed by the evil empress dowager. You may consider that you just want to live a peaceful life on your own but are you moving to another country and changing your identity or something? Because you're never gonna be able to avoid her wrath if she becomes empress. The entire country will burn and it'd be your fault.
Like, for the love of God just imprison her, banish her, or cut her head off and get it over with. My emotions can't take the pure aggravation that would be tens of chapters of drama where the mc can't stand up for herself and keeps trying to push a toxic bitch into a position of power. There's probably gonna be tons of arguments between her and the emperor where their communication is shit and she's jealous and upset over the original FL, while he's pissed at her for pushing a woman he despises onto him. You had no issues stripping an aristocrat of all his titles and wealth so why don't you have any of that spirit towards a toxic threatening person, and instead just lie for her and stay quiet? I guess it's like her being insecure or something, but I just can't stand people NOT acting on their righteous anger and instead just swallowing it and knowingly furthering the villain's plot and power.
And I know the mc can turn around and not make this a shitty drama like that, but I've also seen too many of these situations and I can't stand seeing any treatment other than execution, banishment, or the equivalent of a no-contact agreement. Like for fuck's sake, you have no reason to entertain or allow toxic people into your life, especially when the male lead is willing to execute people for slight inconveniences. You should've began avoiding her as soon as you realized she wasn't like the original fl, and should've made a plan and spilled your guts to the emperor to protect yourself.
I feel you, it was so frustrating seeing that the fl has a bad feeling with original fl but still goes on. It would have been manageable has the fl known nothing about blonde's true personality, but she knows!!
As I said before, this stupidity is for the sake of the plot, as always.
Exactly! I've seen manhwa where there's an outwardly sweet "original FL" who's evil and conniving, but she already has power and support from the aristocracy or royals. So the mc, even if they know about this, can't do much to stop them until they work to gain power and trust. THAT makes sense, even though it's overdone. In this case, though, she has ALL the trust and power and yet she's trying to step down and assist a clearly rude and "bad" person in gaining the trust of others. I mean here's to hoping she very quickly stops doing that
Does anyone remember how old Lester is? Cus I thought he was like 30 something but I kinda forget so if anyone remembers I'd love to know!
like 32 , 33, 35 something like that