Kon'yakusha ni Kirawareteiru You na node Hanaretemitara, Nazeka Kougi Saremashita - Vol. 1 Ch. 4

[MangaDex]

 

[Kinkaiser]

I absolutely hate the trope of "MC accepts a bet they have literally no reason to accept, because accepting means they stand to lose everything while winning gives them something that genuinely doesn't matter."

 

[Amimikamoon]

The prince, repeatedly: Anastasia, I don't like you. I don't want to marry you. Stop calling yourself my fiancee candidate. I've already you down.

Anastasia, for some reason: b-b-but how can the prince be interested in someone who isn't me???

 

[Reader1138]

Everyone in this manga is brain damaged.

Former fiance: she's in a fragile state so I must protect her by adding more insecurities to her psych. It'll be fine if I tell her late I was just joking, right?
Prince: I'll mediate the break up as a completely neutral party between two major houses and WHO WANTS THE GIRL MYSELF. That won't undermine my standing with the nobles in the future if I should marry the girl myself.
Prince's self proclaimed fiancee: Lalalalala, I can't hear you. Ignoring the crown prince, the future king, stated desires won't lead to issues in the future.
Lead: It'll be fine, as an unmarried single woman who lives in a society where appearance of propriety is important, to move into the household of a man I'm not married to. Even better its the Royal household and that shouldn't attract any wide attention what so ever.

 

[Darkshade13]

This writing is so lazy. Every character is just a cliche in human form. There's no effort to make it make sense either, just "these stories go like this so you should accept that the characters fit that framework!". It takes almost no effort to come up with at least a paper-thin excuse or explanation for characters to be how they are, or to work them into something that fits the story. But instead it's just trying to force past all that and expect the audience to not raise a fuss.

 

[cryum]

Everyone in this manga is brain damaged.

Former fiance: she's in a fragile state so I must protect her by adding more insecurities to her psych. It'll be fine if I tell her late I was just joking, right?
Prince: I'll mediate the break up as a completely neutral party between two major houses and WHO WANTS THE GIRL MYSELF. That won't undermine my standing with the nobles in the future if I should marry the girl myself.
Prince's self proclaimed fiancee: Lalalalala, I can't hear you. Ignoring the crown prince, the future king, stated desires won't lead to issues in the future.
Lead: It'll be fine, as an unmarried single woman who lives in a society where appearance of propriety is important, to move into the household of a man I'm not married to. Even better its the Royal household and that shouldn't attract any wide attention what so ever.

It makes you appreciate better titles that focused on giving the MC a job somewhere to gain recognition and standing.

 

[Zxzzxz2]

She just kinda let herself be pushed around everywhere

 

[TNT261]

This literally means nothing. This is just an annoying gnat flying around not knowing its unwanted. The cousin has negative chance of being a fiancé no matter what. She's already been seen completely through and the prince has made it clear to everyone that he doesn't want to marry especially her. She can whine, but nothing she does against the MC will change that. The challenge is dumb. The Prince as already made it clear, as the maids said, that he's smitten with the MC and very not smitten with his cousin. Win or lose the Prince will continue to pursue the MC and neither party is under any obligation to do what the other said, nor is there any reason for them to. The cousin SHOULD move on from the prince and pursue her future otherwise, but if she doesn't currently want to then there's no reason for losing a tea party challenge to change that. And again the MC is the one being chased, not the other way around. She's already turned down the prince's engagement. Maybe she should say that to the cousin, "I've already turned down the prince's engagement. I am only here in the royal palace because he insisted on an opportunity to court me... and I guess I want to raise my self confidence or whatever."

This story has no real reason to exist and it keeps taking away any semblance of conflict and story telling it kinda has. The first fiancé is evil...but actually no, he's just an idiot. Feel bad I guess. The family is evil but they never get any screen time. This fiancé rival is the new antagonist, but no. The prince shut her down several times already. This story could honestly be over with already. She isn't having to fight her first fiancé to get out of the marriage. She isn't have to fight her family. The prince is already deeply in love with her and they're only not engaged because she has no self confidence. This could have been a story of, "If I manage to do XYZ on my own power, then we'll get married." that'd be interesting.

 

[riflow]

I could tolerate the pacing in the previous chapters but this really was hyper speed into an incredibly needless and hollow (also unfair) challenge by a woman who doesn't understand no is a complete sentence
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I know it's common to give the MC a rival to try to prove how much more graceful and kinder of a person she is but this was just so incredibly clumsy.

Thank you for the tl.

 

[Elzariel]

Is it wrong I wanna keep reading JUST to see how badly the next plot point is written? Like I am perfectly aware of the abysmal quality of this plot, but I'm sitting here with my popcorn enjoying the travesty. Its like a carcrash you can't look away from, but with no actual human sacrifice.

 

[NoodlesNomm]

Fucking idiot