I have a question, does the 'heroine' have real power?
Like some influence on her background (being a noble), fighting skills, magic, or something like money, connections to be able to trespass the Princess' palace and bribe everyone to then kill her? Because if the answer is no, and she's just a mere maid, then she has no real influence to gather people AND the only reason she's been able to do so, it's because the game's purpose is to sleep with everyone, so u just need to destroy her chances to steal the harem and easy peasy, you'll be safe (yeah, she doesn't have to kill the FL, but she should take action, not just waiting for the tiger to eat her, c'mon!).
IMO the MC should follow one of these two routes:
1. Evict her from the country/ take her out of her castle = stopping her source of supplies/power.
Considering what I said, if her power only relies on the number of men she's slept with and the game's main scenario where the FL obtains those men is the palace, then our MC should just throw her away from there.
Even if she evicts them from the country and they try to come back to the kingdom or her palace, they would still have to figure it out HOW. That'd give her TIME to prepare countermeasures, like meeting other powerful people who can help her and protect her; establish contracts with other nobles or even kingdoms; obtain resources to fight the FL back, maybe making a deal with her brother so she can give back Eusto's country to him, maybe take the throne and do tons of good deeds to erase her 'villainess' reputation (which would also erase the reasons to be killed), then, in a strict way, the 'heroine' would lose the only thing that makes her attractive in the other character's eyes (that the princess is a villainess and that the FL is not as bad as her).
The only reason the FL still has options, it's because she's still in the palace and the Princess is a villainess, but if she proves to be otherwise, then what valid reason could the 'heroine' have to even get close to our MC? The harem has their own logic and they can change their minds and decisions like a real human; the only reason the FL is able to get the men, is that she's apparently less bad than the Princess, so just crush that image that everyone has of her and close definitely their routes to fall for her. Fewer men for the FL would be equal to weakening her. and zero men for her would be equal to death. Just do that!!!!
Btw and this serious question, why can't she scape? Is there some kind of rule that says she has to stay in the Palace forever? And if so, why would u leave all the dangerous people who can destroy you, in your house? That phrase about keeping your enemies closer it's just valid if u have a way to protect yourself, because rn, aside from her position, but she has nothing so ok~
2. Fighting/facing her directly, while destroying her resources in her face.
The heroine's 'power' is just an illusion of all the skills of the guys she sleeps with, so considering that the palace is the place where the FL obtains that men=power, then the best that our MC can do is close the door that would allow her to obtain that resources.
The mere identity of being an "FL" means nothing if she doesn't follow the game's storyline, so based on that, our MC just needs to erase the scenarios where the FL will build up her harem: if they're gonna have sex, she just needs to stop it, if they're having important conversations she just needs to call for them, just erase every possibility of the FL following the pre-defined storyline! That way our MC will suppress her in many ways and will gain time (to obtain support), and without any important moments of the game done, no one will fall in love with her, and with any man in love with her, she'll lose her power and mind.
Also, by the things we saw, it's obvious that the Princess herself is the main culprit that her men are going to look for the FL, so actually trying to treat them better and gain their trust or forgiveness would be a better route of action. I know she wouldn't know that per se (the Princess' exact deeds), but if she can see what are the options of Yuriel, then she must know that the characters can reject the FL as well and not just the villainess, so yeah, she has options.
Ps. I feel bad for Robian, the boy wasn't like this, his feelings were so pure and real for her but yeah, the previous princess was pure trash, and wtf with Nadricka, that made the princess even more disgusting than trash.
Ps.2. I also feel worried for Nadricka now, are we sure he won't try to revenge? For me, he's the cutest and I love him, but if he's a character in an otome game he should have some important feature that would make him relevant, and not just his lovely personality and cute face. And I'm just asking because it'd be valid for him to do something against the princess (we don't even know his story so idk).
Are we reading the same chapters ? Robian slept with the maid because he was brokenhearted at her request to watch him fuck other women. He genuinely likes the princess, but the princess was too cold. Imagine sleeping with the woman you like and telling her how you cannot believe that she lets you bed her when you were just thinking about it, but she cut it off saying "It was boring, let me watch you fuck someone else instead" and never calls you again after that ??????
Also question, did he r word someone ? As far as i know, he consensually sleep with Yuriel and wondering off to the Princess bed begging for sex but fall asleep on top of her instead ?? Are we reading the same thing here ?
The current princess uses the word 'you are sleeping with another woman behind my back' to release him when thats what the previous owner ask him to do in the first place.
Robian come to Yuriel because he was broken hearted. Thats it.
Poor Robian, hopefully he would find someone who will love him, that was such a cruel move from the og princess and Nadricka is such a cinnamon roll. I hope he won't betray the princess in the future. Best boi ftw
also girl u gon hesitate to kill a fictional character trying to kill u? chile....
could the author really not think of a better reason smh lazy writing
@Shroov05 Dude, he literally tried to rape the Empress last chapter. He pinned her down as she was repeatedly saying no; if that's not rape I don't know what is. The only reason he didn't succeed is because he passed out- there's nothing to excuse in that behavior. Also, since when was sleeping with a different woman because you're sad your "true love" or whatever doesn't care for you considered normal? That's some toxic emotionally broken shit, fueled by his horniness level. And were you not paying attention to how much affection he had for the FL? Please don't make excuses for him; his decisions are entirely stupid, violent and grossly inappropriate.
I re-read the chapter to make sure that we get the same gist, after pinning her down which her entire body language seems to not mind as she speaks sternly back at him arguing that she sleeps with someone else, Robian then said 'Lets sleep together tonight' the princess then only able to utter the word 'What' outloud because he passed out right after.
I don't deny that he actually fell for Yulia's 'affection', he is hungry for love and is eager to receieve this from anyone that gave it to him, since he couldn't receive it from the Princess. He latches onto anyone and that happens to be the game protagonist.
Yulia knew this really well and uses him and Robian self realizes this. In the future chapter she will try to win his affection back by lying her ass to his heart but Robian is already aware of her fake kindness and feelings and just pretended to accept it but his affection level remains zero and Yulia couldn't use him to get closer as princess maid in attendant. As he was passive and has no face to meet her again
If we are reprimanding Robian for sleeping with someone else, then the way the Princess lives should be look down as well. She literally has countless men beside her harem to sleep with. She was the epitome of horny (The real one, may i add). Is it because she was a ruthless killer and has been that way before all of this hence its excusable as well ? Out of all points, raging at Robian for sleeping with one woman but ignores that she slept around is.... that one talking point i can't seem to accept.
@Shroov05 I'm not criticizing Robia for sleeping with multiple women, I'm criticizing him for claiming he only cares about one woman while sleeping with others. Not only that, he doesn't listen to what the Empress is saying or what she wants; he pins her down and tries to rape her because she didn't summon him to her room. If that's not insane I don't know what is. And yes, what he tried to do was rape. "Body langauge" doesn't matter if she explicitly says no, which she does. What you're basically saying right now is "she was asking for it." Why are you defending this character anyways? All he's done is whine and act like an incel; bitching because the woman he wants to sleep with doesn't want to have sex with him. How is that likeable in any way?
@Burbz I took it as her wanting to have a vague idea of where she was and what she was up to outside of the prompts. If she's outside the castle but worms her way back in that introduces a lot of outside factors that are harder to plan for.