@ismaelh it's slower than early chapter but it makes sense as nowadays manhwa that gets famous/popular will have slower pace to cashcow from legal readers (such as it's pretty decent pace with her skipped hardwork at making mountain escape way for her parents to the point she ended up with her own knight not spy vs this slow pace that she wanted to be a secret patron. Well she needed to be a secret supporter or else the blue haired woman would cut her effort such as demanded her to stop (as all she needed to be was showing an existence not making connection or friends) and worse read her intemtion when those people ended up became influential figures
It's annoying as manhwa like Vol... Age is drawn with same pace
And unless there's a forced plot by author, MC won't meet ML in the near future as there's no way blue haired woman will let MC build connection, let alone exchange greeting with a powerful person/group
(^^) well sorry for bad english it's just it's pity if people start to find this boring or plain because the publisher try to cashcow legal readers :/