Koushaku Reijou Lydia no Utsukushiki Ken - Uragirareta no de Kochira kara Konyaku Hakisasete Itadakimasu - Ch. 3
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I’m a bit troubled here. Everybody seems fully aware, not just of the romantic betrayal but of the crimes and more. Everyone is instantly on the main characters side. Sure it’s a change from the usual fare of villainess type series but this just seems so blatant and easy.
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I'd take this instead of a convoluted drama where the mc just cries in the corner over the span of 20 chapters without anyone doing anything.
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same... I just want a good romance slice of life w/o the baggage that gets pulled out of their ass. ive already read the wholesome ones so ive been trying to find good titles but i guess drama sells
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It feels like kinda par for the course for a lot of Villainess manga to speed-run the intro since the genre is so oversaturated nowadays.
Not many are good enough to make a decent foundation for an actual story outside of padding for hundreds of chapters or inserting unnecessary drama, so instead they rely on speed and cheap FOILs to garner sympathy towards the FMC.
Not many are good enough to make a decent foundation for an actual story outside of padding for hundreds of chapters or inserting unnecessary drama, so instead they rely on speed and cheap FOILs to garner sympathy towards the FMC.
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I can kind of appreciate that this is a twist on the "I was framed as the villainess" sub-genre of villainess/engagement-breaking stories where the conceit is that everyone seems to know that the MC isn't really bad and it's only the framer and the guy the to whom the engagement is broken that aren't totally in the know (though here he seems at least somewhat aware that it doesn't make much sense). The problem is that they don't really pay off that fact in an interesting way and it feels like there's not really anywhere to go that will make much conflict. The framer girl is a lower noble/maid so she has no political power to protect herself with. The lord/fought-over guy is not 100% totally on her side as he's been seen wavering a bit. There's no indication of hypnosis magic or anything of the sort to force things in one direction. And nothing that Lydia has done has even come close to actually being construed as bad.
All that can really happen is that Lydia makes her accusations, everyone agrees with them, and she moves on to the guy that was just introduced to find real love and companionship. I don't want big huge drama and contrived twists where she loses at every turn in spite of having the high ground and being the protagonist. But there's just no meat to this one.
I just don't see how this story can sustain itself, though I'll ride with it for as long as it can manage.
All that can really happen is that Lydia makes her accusations, everyone agrees with them, and she moves on to the guy that was just introduced to find real love and companionship. I don't want big huge drama and contrived twists where she loses at every turn in spite of having the high ground and being the protagonist. But there's just no meat to this one.
I just don't see how this story can sustain itself, though I'll ride with it for as long as it can manage.
I sorta wonder if some of the cliche plot elements are mandatory.
Like are villainess protagonists nowadays mainly girls who don't look villainessy at all and have never done anything wrong in their lives and pre-story they either did a bunch of someone else's super important work for zero credit or they were forced to work as a maid in their own house because that's all authors can come up with or do editors/publishers/readers go "meh," if you diverge too much from that formula.
