@Tehmora Gonna step in and say "not all females" lol. Buuuuuut, actually, that's how almost all romance stories are built on: misunderstandings.
MC crushes on someone but thinks it's unrequited even though the readers know the other person likes em back? Misunderstanding.
MC thinks they messed something up big time and it's their fault, but it actually was sabotage by a rival (that only the readers know)? Misunderstanding.
MC thinks the world and all its people are out to kill them so they have to live by a certain set of rules, where the reader knows the true intent of all the other characters and the MC's wrong about their assumptions? Misunderstanding.
MC doesn't necessarily have to be a girl ofc. But in this genre of story where the MC is typically in a certain plot, and the plot is drawn out to have some sort of conflict in a world that's actually pretty ideal, the main plot device that drives it forward is the MC's misunderstanding of what's going on. Readers can tell the MC has it all wrong because that's part of the storytelling. But it doesn't make it any less frustrating that this MC is a complete dunce for the past 12 chapters and actually attempts to get a little bit of clarity, but still projects her assumptions and continues her misunderstanding.
As for her being female? These stories with romance or shoujo elements involved typically have female characters, yes. And for them to have these klutz levels of misunderstandings helps build the whole story. I've read through 30 isekai/transmigration stories, both ones where the MC is super competent (Cheating Men Must Die, Life of a Spider, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear, Accomplishments of a Duke's Daughter) or super oblivious (I Am a King's Daughter, Sincerely I Became a Duke's Maid, I Became the Villain's Mother), and while the tropes are tiresome, or can be used on males, and yes both genders can be autonomous and misunderstand on their own time...
Yes, this is in fact getting dumb for some readers lol, that sure isn't the only comment on how blind Valerie is. But we wouldn't be reading this if we weren't prepared for it.
Oh, thanks for the chapter BTW, pretty art!