So in the end Rosemary chose status over freedom. Perhaps a good choice for her in the long run, if she can endure the temporary loss of her freedom as she undergoes strict training and supervision in the convent. Sounds like a long "sentence" though, so she also gives up on love while she's young, but as a commoner she wouldn't be able to marry a noble anyway, so might as well give up that youth and hope for a late marriage with some rich noble her age, or an unlucky young noble.
Now that I think of it, convents are basically used as penitentiaries for bad girls in villainess and otome game stories. That's kind of weird, since there should just be a prison for women to serve their sentences instead. Joining a convent is typically a lifetime thing unless a nun is expelled or voluntarily quits (which I presume is not an option since convents/nunneries/monasteries here function more like prisons somehow).
Meanwhile, Serena is back being oblivious to the feelings of the two men competing for her attention. First prince trying some ikemen playboy moves on Serena and failing to make her swoon was, uh... okay whatever. I did like that Serena pushed back on the snooty noble girls badmouthing her stepsister even if Rosemary was in the wrong most of the time.
So out of the pan and into the fire, huh. Can't even catch a break after the just concluded downfall of her enemies.
