Okay, so I couldn't bear waiting and read the novel (till chapter 161 I think, if I'll read more I'll update)
But yeah, turns out normal mode fl made a deal with eclise, that he will take her to duchy and he'll "get" duchess. he didn't wanted the title, cause he was afraid that he would need to leave mansion after receiving one. Basically (if I understood properly,take it with a grain of salt, cause novel translation was pretty bad) he hoped, that fl will have no other choice than to leave the mansion with him. Btw he gets tad delulu.. When she came to him in prison - turns out that he knows fl is using him and she doesn't love him, but for some reason she cannot leave him, so he kinda gets this psycho idea, that no matter what happens she needs him (crazy bastard, you gonna hate him fr). Well jokes on him, our badass fl just after realizing, that even after he says I love you she won't get 100% (he's effection bar stopped at 99%), she throws away the ring to his collar and basically abandon him. What's important for the plot, after she leaves the prison,to see him comes that btch. fl will hear, that real princess is able to brainwash eclise to some point with her mirror thingy, but it's not working too well, cause on the island fl took part of that mirror. So my theory is, that in normal mode Yvvone is able to brainwash all mcs, cause her mirror is full and she probably will do anything to get that part of the mirror back, so it's probably gonna be important part of the plot.
If you guys have any questions, I'll gladly answer, but I need to warn you guys. The best option for now is to dump this series for at least a year. It's gonna be long wait. I'm not sure how often manhwa is posted, but I just read 200 chapter of novel and it's nowhere near the finishing line (but holy shit, the plot is getting crazier with every chapter)
I really was hoping for some light on how both emperor and ml treated princesses etc, but this was really bad. First, not really convincing and cringey plot, the fl with no brain and this rushed ending. When it comes to the characters, I cannot even say Luana is better than emperor. She didn't give a sh about other people and thought the original plot was okay?? Like, okay, you were abandoned, but when she went to see Ingrid in dungeon with a smile on her face, I lost all hopes. Every single time she went to see Ingrid, she acted like a clown. If she knew the original plot, she probably knew how mentally ill the emperor is..? I really hate those stories, in which the fl loses her brain when she's in love. Also, did they just cut whole plot with white haired guy witch cursing the ml? XD I thought it's gonna be some curse, which would explain the behaviour of the ml after they came back and he wouldn't eat her food, but I guess I expect too much from this manhwa. Btw, don't get me started on the cheese jerky, that was such a weird idea. Like, imagine, you just conquered the whole empire, you know you cannot eat food without it tasting bad, yet you eat random stick from a dirty, abandoned princess? It wasn't even a whole day and the dude got obsessive to the point he didn't wanted her to be cooking for other people and the be his property (what is whole another case btw). Normally, the ml who has questionable past (such as being the mass killer, as the knight said) gets his redemption arc. Normally he finds out his actions were wrong and changes because if the fl or his dramatic past is being shown and it becomes clear he was threatened into following the orders. At the beginning, I really thought the emperor could be somehow connected to the curse and control the ml, but ofc nope. So ml just happily follows his orders without even thinking by himself. He destroys whole empire,so his master gets a girl who doesn't love him, even when the emperor said he will kill everyone except Ingrid, he just follows him? I really hoped he will assassinate the emperor and get his redemption by joining the rebellion. Also, the food choices made by fl were very questionable. We didn't get much what was her life before reincarnation, but since she did cook some international recipes,we can guess she was very good at it. And yet, the amount of mediocre recipes was astonishing. Random soups, fried chicken obsession. One second she says that he looks bad and probably was starving a lot and then the other second she prepares him dishes with not-many nutrients and very big amounts as well. I'm sorry, but this plot has so many holes and I'm so confused, that I have no idea what I've just read. Was those 50+ chapters worth it? Absolutely not XD
If you're interested in reading this - please do. The beginning is really nice and fresh. Unfortunately later on the story becomes dull and dumb. So the moment you think the beginning is over - run away.
Expect your typical cast: Communication-out-of-the-window, fate-is-against-us-being-together, fl-looses-her-charm and more similar tropes!
We get no romance interactions between main couple, mainly cause ml is friend-blocked (by himself lol).
So yeah, good luck soldiers!
I just stopped at 65. I keep coming back to try but something just won't let me finish reading TT I can't
Yeah, not worth it