I know she’s acting like a brat and behaving terribly. But honestly, it’s not her fault. She was raised in an environment where she was favored, probably never scolded, and always heard the other adults looking down on her cousin and calling her names. Probably praising her when she did as well.
Plus, seeing as she was the only known child of the snow leopards, a strong dukedom, she was basically on the same level as the twins and was most likely always treated well by peers too.
And then to read this latest chapter, where she’s now had basically a 180 of her life, where grandfather doesn’t hug her, praise her, or even really look at her anymore and only ever scolds her. And being raised with that high pride but now having to lower her head to not only the child she was always told she’s better than, but to know that it’s basically that child’s “fault” for all these bad changes happening to her. Plus having everybody think poorly of her for acting similar to how she’s most likely always acted, when I’m sure before they never said it out loud around her at least. Of course you would be having a tantrum and freaking out.
Also the competition she was even given so much shit, but she was 7, the youngest there, and of course somebody had to lose. People were comparing her to a woman her mom probably always talked shit about so she probably hated that too. I’m sure she was pushed to do the competition at 7 too, because obviously there wouldn’t have been anybody to compete the year prior when she was 6 and didn’t compete. So she’s once again getting pulled along by her mother and grandfathers whims and then catching strays for it.
Her family did her a huge disservice, and even now, her mom is still scolding Tiel and telling Rowan that she’s better than her basically. So Rowan isn’t gonna learn unless something major happens or she’s able to make adult connections and change herself.
Like, I just can’t blame a 7 year old for her behavior like this with such a huge change. Honestly, Tiel is the weird one for taking all the changes in her life in stride (but I love her anyway).
Sorry, I just have a lot of feelings for this poor child who has opposite, but still poor circumstances (though obvi not nearly as bad as Tiels). I kind of wish she ends up getting a good ending where she and Tiel becomes friends and she becomes the new head of the snow leopards and reforms them.
Oh yea, I totally agree about the cousin and her behavior being all about how she was raised. Her mother also seemed to be getting a little crazier too so I do wonder if she'll attempt something in the future and whether that'll point the cousin down a darker path with the grandfather or point her in Tiel's direction where she ultimately becomes friendly with her? Idk it'll be interesting to see how it pans out
I do hope that eventually she is able to figure out that she is still worthy even if she isn’t “the best”. And that how she treated Tiel was wrong.
The family has just always put high expectations on the two girls and gotten terrible when they don’t follow through. I’m sure Tiel was treated fine at the snow leopard clan before they realized she wasn’t getting powers. So maybe Rowan saw that is afraid that’ll be her next.
I hope for good things.
I remember reading this awhile ago, and rereading it now has just made me realize that there’s no conflict in this story.
At literally every point that they could add conflict, they instead just solve it immediately.
Oh he’s transported to a new world and has a collar? Well we know someone who can get it off immediately.
He met these two people just a day ago? Turns out he’s the pair of one. Oh wait! Both of them are actually his pair, and both are totally ok with sharing. Also, he’s conveniently gay, so he has zero qualms about being with a male partner, let alone 2.
He has special healing skills? He can pretty much immediately regrow an arm and fix a leg of his two pairs. No need to work towards that goal, he just achieves it!
Going to meet his pairs families? Everyone immediately loves him and nobody treats him cruelly, differently, or poorly.
Oops, we need something to force a child. How about we say that he has a curse that makes it so he has to have a child in order to break it? Don’t worry, he’ll be totally fine with having a child with one of the two men he has barely known a month.
Also, if they just said that they need a core in order to conceive, how did Mintz get pregnant? He made it seem like it was an accident because his partner didn’t pull out; but if you have to purposefully put a core in, how can anybody get pregnant by accident?
I enjoyed the story as being really simple, I just think it was such a great concept that could have been carried out really interestingly, but it just fell flat. It’s like they had all these plot points that they wanted to do, but only ended up being allowed to do so many chapters, so they just made all of the problems from them be solved instantly instead.
I like your english lol
100% agree, I'm gonna read the novel just to see if its remotely better bc I like the concept
It’s been what? 30 chapters? And Astina still cannot understand that she is doing the same thing over again? That she is pushing him away just like she pushed Theo away and treating Teriod as Theo had treated her.
She’s so afraid that she might not be loving him genuinely that she is masking all of her actual feelings and her fear is making her unsure of what is true and what is not.
This isn’t even something that can be talked out between the two of them anymore I feel. I fear that somebody is going to have to force some sense into her.
I had just finished chapter 6 or 7 when they brought up the mom going missing again. And I thought it was weird that she didn’t have any mention of leaving or such. Then I went back and reread the chapter where half-sis turns her into a cat initially and she talks about how mom wanted to take her back and how it “worked again” etc. And after rereading the first chapter, it hit me!
The half-sister turned her into the parakeet from the beginning! And once the parakeet was able to “say her mothers name” aka say her own name and learn to talk thus start to be able to tell people that the daughter is a sorceress and what she did. She kept it with her at all times!!!
Idk if that bird is dead now or not, but omg that’s 100% what she did!!
Excuse me but where did you find the parakeet? In what chapter? Because after reading your comment i went back to the beginning to see it but i can't find any chapter with a bird saying the mom's name
it's in the first chapter page 14.
Ooh okay thank you!
Holy shit, good revelation that is so sinister idk why I didn't connect that
Holy shit! You're right. The stepmother is the parakeet. Damn. The foreshadowing is so subtle you almost missed it
U R SO RIGHT!! It was the step-mother and I kid you not, I'm bawling my eyes rn cuz of it. the step-mther died cuz the cage she was in fell in the balcony.
that daughter bitch was so evil. the step-mother was so nice to marie that's why it hurts ╥﹏╥
But I personally am tired of the black leopard trope. I prefer when they just have the leopard be their beautiful golden color with the black spots and such. Not every leopard or big cat in a story needs to melanistic or leucistic or albino etc. The normal color of some of these bigs cats are beautiful. Except for golden tigers, those are my favorite.
I suddenly remember, the seme in kuroneko series were leopard right?
This manga really had me for the first 6 maybe 8 chapters. But by this point I’m just getting bored by how long it’s taking for any real growth in the relationship between these two, specifically mutually. Like yeah, their feelings have grown but there was just so much that they had to cover here and that they’re trying to pack on that it feels like they’re trying to get to the next plot point before they fully resolve even the last three.
Spoilers ~
I mean, he got transported to this new world that’s a novel of his sisters. So he’s gotta resolve his feelings on that.
Then he’s gotta resolve his feelings on most likely being an omega.
And resolve his feelings on being in a gay relationship.
And resolve his feelings on being in a lower class with a high class partner.
Like, none of these are really resolved at all before they skip to the next one. Sure, he says he realizes he doesn’t care that he’s a guy, but it doesn’t *feel* like he worked his way through that. So everything just feels both rushed and slow at the same time.
I think maybe I’d feel more invested in the story if by this point they rushed it to the moment they admitted their feelings for each other. But instead it seems like they’re just going to go for another moment of “Now I won’t tell him my feelings for him because I realize the risks of dating somebody of his status” that he somehow never realized could be a possibility all this time. And instead we’ll get another handful of chapters waiting for Jasper to figure this out and pulling the feelings out of him. Ugh
I understand your frustration, but it's a huge decision on Taisei's part. Admitting his feeling for Jasper means agreeing to be his partner, finding a way for his family/society to accept him; marrying into a sexist noble family, determining to stay in that bigoted world even if he might have to chance to go back to his old world.
Even I can't say for sure that I will choose love if I were Taisei.
Feelings can't be always resolved easily
Super cute and they did get into their relationship super quick which was funny and interesting. My only issue is the size discrepancies. Some scenes she barely comes to his shoulders and others she’s up to his chin. I’m giving grace and it doesn’t actually bother me that much but man, I just don’t know how tall anybody is lol.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Grandpa either put them on a final warning or kicked the kids and the parents out of the family for their grave crimes to the family name. Oh god I can't wait for the next chapter.
I love this story a lot, the female lead is strong, smart, and doesn't let things get in her way. But at this point this feels less like a romance story and more like a story of her life. Which is fine, but we met the Prince once and then haven't really heard from him since, and we are coming up on 40 chapters.
What I'm saying is that I'm worried this story is either A) going to take an incredibly long time and possibly be near 200 chapters and I'm selfish and don't want to wait (but will continue to do so). Or B) will rush towards the end and not give us enough time to truly feel the romance swell and them work together to better the Lombardy family and the Empire through the Prince.
I'm not saying that they need to be in love or meet right away, but just that I would like to see a bit more variation in what's happening. Right now it feels a lot like; problem that the family would cause by being dumb, Tia comes up with a plan to make it better, Grandpa is impressed by Tias ability as is one other important person, Tias plan comes to fruition and things are great and now she has one more person on her side, rinse and repeat.
Well... The title IS called "I'll be the Matriarch in this Life"....
That’s very true sir. Lmao. I love how you had to pointed out the title. LMAO. Tbh I had already spoiled myself the general gist of the story by going to spoiler thread. So it’s like whatever. You know the romance doesn’t really happened until she’s older. or at least when she could actually meet the prince freely
hmm,, consider this tho
1) The main character of this story is the female lead, 2) her main problem before she died was the fact that she wasnt able to step up to her cousins and save her family. 3) now that she has a new life she wants to save her family and her father from meeting the tragic end that her past life had in store for her.
I dont necessarily see the need for a male lead just yet, her main problem and goal as of now is to help her father business and keep her father and grandfather safe.
as for the male lead that still isnt confirmed with the chapters we see rn i think itll be 10-25 more chapters before our little FL will end up helping or saving the male lead, it might even be vise versa.
Also the fact that there is no variation given yet means that a huge part of the plot will happen soon, calm before the storm you know that saying right? and its even being hinted at us with the fact of the prince’s soon to be assassination with the newly given poison to the maid.
well imo you wouldnt be able to fully understand/grasp the story without this part of it yk? if you werent told HOW she was doing all of this, what she went through before, how she got to the point where romance COULD happen, etc. you would just have 1/3 of a story.
if you just introduce them as they did in the beginning w no backstory aside from a short retelling, it wouldnt have the same mental anguish as seeing this kid in the woods as the story progresses on its own. if u just saw a pretty pretty fem lead and a hot masc lead, youd assume it was like every other story. but by introducing her as someone who has struggled and making you aware of that, its making the story have more depth.
no idea if what i said made sense but tldr: if it didnt have those chapters as buildup this story would be dryer than your moms pussy man.
It’s still got at least one more chapter to come out but the story is so sweet and precious. Plus the seme being all about the uke and no one else is just *chefs kiss*. Can’t wait for the next chapter.