If that was Lilly escaping I hope she learned a hard arse lesson on greed and nobility and should have stayed a girls girl with Sally. Unless it was another innocent person, low-key hope it's Lilly though (￣∇￣")
I think it's the red haired maid that Elysee sent to try to seduce Casis after she drugged him that one time
Ohhh completely forgot about her, makes sense.
I'm pretty sure lilly is dead. Elysees turned her into fertilizer for her garden. I think it's in the scene where she throws a tea party in her greenhouse.
It's getting interesting. I was expecting the " I want to annul our marriage" at a public gathering as usual but this is good. (=・ω・=)
The fact that we haven't even reached the full development of her feelings for the King and an official relationship and how it took 80+ chapters for a basic "avenging myslef" plot shows how the author didn't have time and plot management in mind for readers
80+ chapters should atleast be Sisley plotting her revenge and has made several attempts at fl life and reputation if not her getting caught and be prosecuted by the public and wrapping this mess up. It's not a worthy read. Extremely dragged and disappointing.
To each his own I guess.
But I disagree about her relationship with the king being dragged: first, he is trying to get her recognized as a talent and not a pretty face. And being lovie-dovie would defeat the point. Second, she spend many years in her previous relationship and they were ended abruptly and painfully. Who would jump into a new one right away? Especially with her temperament.
I like the pacing, and especially the fact that she was not obsessed with revenge: that's unhealthy
I think its a resonable pace tbh. The author first had to set the stage for the Mc's position in the Duke's household. Then introduce the villainess and the ex resulting in Mc deciding she wants to make herself independent. So she had to go out, get the job and prove herself to be capable for the job since she is a woman. All this while her plotline with the Emperor develops. The setting seems eleborate if you ask me.
If you read another such story with elaborate plot like 'step-mother's marchen', its on ch 137 and it hasn't been long since the ML was introduced and there is barely any romance. Ofc, if you want a read for romance itself, I would not recommend either of these stories.
When word first got out that Lily was on the run, the Dukes wife in maybe chapter 50 or whatever chapter ending the trial showed of a her "new lily garden" and she was tending to it. Something tells me she's buried in there as even the imperial investigates and the Duke can't find her.
*Spoiler*
Hello, I just came back to read past comments... And your theory is proven right with the latest chapters (around 65-70)! ... and how she effing served lily tea, fertilized by her dead body, to her guests... Ewww
Going back to him will literally put all those efforts down the toilet. It's like reading a manga in circles if we can tell she'll get back to him eventually. I thought this story would be very different from a FL escaping her abuser and starting afresh with love and light but it's depressing me so much knowing that nice guys finish always finish last. Unless the plot really has a twist.
His best option at the time in my view would have been a contract marriage with someone before the heat got too hot with a secret wedding. Especially since he didn't care for the criticsm because he had enough power and influence especially since his brother was throwing him under the bus
Also Elysees didn't have enough power or money to start killing people yet at the time. But knowing her should would have used the princess to make the contract wife a outcast.
Oh that is true. That could've been where the story went with and wouldn't change much. But I think Casis didn't go into one bc no lady from high society caught his eye? Maybe if they made Sally an aristocrat then yeah, would've ended the same either way.