She just bought a slave, that slave was noble military spy, she went with him o his country where they kept acting like master and slave even after she met his (rich influential) family.
Nothing strange at all for them, it seems.
Yeah. (〜 ̄△ ̄)〜
Not for me. The story is shallower than a puddle. ┑( ̄Д  ̄)┍
Did she really have to go ALONE up a mountain using stilettos?
It already doesn't make sense for her to go instead of sending someone. Makes even less sense to go alone. And going with that shoes to walk in the snow and going up a mountain is absurd.
I'm trying really hard to ignore all logic but it's really frustrating when common sense does not exist. (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
He was so OP and then he was gone. Why?
WHY!?
The ending was so flat.
The dad went through all the journey without even a sliver of emotional growth. So limited and shallow like a puddle. ( ̄へ ̄)
The mom was amazing and they put her in a "always waiting for the husband and doing nothing".
And Redgon! And his father! So much potential and they just...did nothing with it. I read this entire thing waiting for him to come back and he didn't show up even in the epilogue.
(╯°Д °)╯╧╧
But it feels they are hopelessly overwhelmed by pure lack of focus and competence.
Etienne sometimes shows his smarts but is really really lacking in following through. Thankfully he made that alliance with his uncle. And I have half a mind to think the uncle is an idiot because the prince has nothing to back his spite.
His boy-toy (the duke) is supposedly really strong but throws it all away by not thinking things through.
What is really frustrating me is that they make statements about protecting their people, making plans and destroying the empress but the progress is minimal and almost always destroyed by romantic plots. It's always "Let's fuck and put everything and everyone at risk and make a mess to confirm our feelings!"
On the other hand?
The empress is not playing AT ALL. She's bad, manipulative and a very evil bitch. But she gets shit done. She formes alliances, makes deals, gets support, brainwashes a lot of people and is almost always a step ahead.
If it weren't for plot armour the main couple would be six feet under.
And really uncomfortable with this fic.
Yeah, she guessed right about the mother but it seemed more like a deranged girlfriend's line of thought than whatever they tried to pass it as.
(⊙…⊙ )
This gives yandere vibes from a mile away.
The only reason she seems to not be pursuing her father as a partner is (by her own words) the mistake of being his daughter.
And I have to say, very mediocre.
The art is ok, the plot could have been ok, the fl is...well. Not relatable. The recipes are very...not enough by far to have those miraculous effects, but it can be overlooked because *fantasy* and all that. (〜 ̄△ ̄)〜
The problem is mostly the pace and how every little thing just... goes her way with barely a thought. And even less logic.
The god was actually quite nice and the fl does not appreciate sh!t. #-.-)
She's not very likeable to me.
Together with the prince they barely have the brain power of a single functioning brain cell.
Also, the make up sucks. I know drawing make up is a nightmare, but maybe do it like it was done with her "dry hair, dry skin and sickly face" and just pretend we can see it on the drawing. Less traumatic. ( ̄∇ ̄")











But even if it wasn't it is really a very shallow story where there is no adversity, no narrative, without a single good female character and literally ALL the girls are cheap, money hungry two faces whose only path to survival is mooching up to the rich guys. And every guy other than the protagonist is either a low IQ villain, a bootlicker or a goon.
Seriously. If you are going to use AI to draw and take from real artists, at least make the story worth reading. This is incel heaven.