Sincerely: I Became a Duke's Maid - Vol. 1 Ch. 34

[GerryCerryBery]

Time for a redemption arc for the duchess. She changed a bit and seemed to regret that she and Alejandro grew apart. At the end at least.

 

[Kryspy_Kreme]

Alejandro is fcking pissing me off now. Ibee's gonna get fcking hurt all because he doesn't know what exactly his authority can do as he abuses it, and she can't refuse or talk back if it concerns her own well being. In the first place, she really can't now he's grown up supposedly like before, and whatever she says will reach the heads which can jeopardize her job.

I'm hoping someone would scold at him about it like the head maid or butler, but it's not like he'll listen either way, I imagine. He'll only listen to Ibee, who can't scold him harshly because of her status.

This was cute when he was a child but not anymore. Where's the "no bullshit" character when we actually need them?! (ノｷﾟ皿ﾟノ~┻━┻

 

[Kaarme]

@Kryspy_Kreme Ibelina's status is being Alejandro's love interest. She would be in a position to scold him, better than anyone else. Especially since he listens to nobody else, like you said. But she apparently lost the ability for some reason.

 

[Kryspy_Kreme]

@Kaarme Their statuses as fictional characters to us has nothing to do with their statuses as a commoner and a noble to within their world. To declare your story role as an argument, like saying "I'm the heroine of this world", is useless since it is only true to its readers and creator, not to their fellow characters.一 And not unless the author decides to use those words as a part of the story.

Ibee's a maid, and Alejandro's her master. You can't talk back to, let alone scold, the young master of a household with such a low position. She was only able to before (and also be intimate with him) since Alejandro was still a child, and it's part of her job to take care of and guide him as everyone else was afraid to, assigned to her by the head. (Like from Queen Elizabeth's biography, if I remember correctly the name, where the higher maid used to scold her and her brother for running about and stealing food from the kitchen.) However, he is now all grown up with the head maid and head butler to guide him now.

Please clarify if I had failed to see the point of your reply.

 

[TheDragonLord]

The Duchess looks like someone who needs major trauma therapy. Forced into a loveless marriage, her only value being as a "baby factory" to produce an heir, having great difficulty and nearly dying in childbirth, and then to have her son cursed by the Emperor so that his son could escape said curse---thereby subjecting her to shame and abuse culturally---even her husband held an open affair and then died while living it up with his lover. The Duke probably had his own trauma history resulting in his inability to treat his political marriage partner who was as much (if not more) of a victim as he was with empathy and love as a fellow sufferer. The Duchess may have had her own problems, but it seems like due to the ongoing trauma history they lacked the means to love each other, even if their love was developed as friendship (agreeing to have a polyamorous relationship because they lacked romantic attraction to one another, but nonetheless requiring one another to produce heirs, love them, and treat them respectfully/with honor so they can grow up to not be as screwed up as they are/were. We saw a good examples of their traumas by their ongoing relationships and their inability to love their son despite what they all as a family went through, thereby making each a persistent victim of multigenerational trauma that was passed down from parent to child and so on until Ibee began to break the cycle of abuse. As a result of their combined inability to effectively love Alejandro, he suffered grave abuses, neglect, and traumas from his curse, from other people and the staff/caregivers, and from his own parents.

This is what multigenerational trauma and abuse looks like. "Fault" isn't necessarily an effective statement to describe it because much of the problems (in terms of knowledge of what they are doing and the help/support to fix it) are outside of their controls. The nobles/royals effectively cannot show "weakness" to their "subjects" and thus are forced to never have the social comfort and support that they require in order to do effective jobs, to perform those duties and thus protect their society as a whole. The inability to "talk about it" or to have people with whom they can converse leaves these matters to fester unattended. Thus one of the greatest evils of "class systems" are their destruction of the communal bonds we need to effectively love and help one another as people.

 

[TheDragonLord]

While I can respect his feelings, I don't think that Alejandro is emotionally mature enough to have a relationship with Ibee precisely because he disrespects her autonomy and is extremely need. Particularly, in the form that he doesn't respect her needs or how his unwanted advanced could impact Ibee or threaten the house name, which would likewise harm her. If he did have the maturity, he'd be tactful and ask Ibee before diving into his emotional reactions.

 

[stal2walk]

What the point to be a good mother when you are too late
Also rip ibelina Alejandro grow the fuck up especially mental one
Ibelina can't scold him in public
Even she can scold him in private is not like Alejandro will listen her if she scold about acting like this will cause misunderstood because he is selfish af

 

[Wilhelm_Stenvall]

It would've been cool with a bonus chapter around Alejandro's mothers time in the South.

 

[Cimoore95]

I honestly can't stand Ibelina at this point. Instead of just explaining things to Alejandro like someone with common sense she just keeps doing this shit. You work for him and it might be hard to say no when he tells you what to do but he trusts you so talk to him.
There is no excuse for someone to be this stupid as an adult if they grew up in modern times.

We know no one taught him anything about feelings and how to properly judge situations or deal with his feelings. And apparently no one taught her how to use her brain.

 

[Sayorin]

Alejandro keeps getting more handsome every chapter.Ulala >_<

 

[daallday]

Sometimes I feel like I'm reading a different manga than some of the commenters. If I just read the comments, I'd think Alejandro was a jealous, stalker, psycho rapist who won't take no for an answer, instead of a spoiled 16 year old boy expressing his love to the only person who has ever cared about him, and doesn't realize that his advances are inconveniencing her because she hasn't told him.
And I'd think Ibee was either some evil temptress, seducing men even though she has no intentions to reciprocate, a naive blockhead who has absolutely no idea that Alejandro loves her, or an overworked and overstressed maid who's being sexually harassed by her boss.

In reality, she's just more focused on rescuing Al from his dead end future than romance right now, and she's refusing to examine whatever feelings she has for Al besides motherly love, because 1. She's a maid, and he's a duke 2. She still expects the story to follow its original path because 9/10 events have. And 3. She does still see him as a child, and children are fickle, how can she trust his love to last?

 

[GTX1080Ti]

I feel like Ibee and Alej need to have a nice talk and discuss things.

Then again a brat wouldn't understand his personal maid was actually isekai'd in.

 

[LullabiesLullabyes]

@daallday damn straight, say it louder for the people in the back! >:[

 

[Heenimakira]

@daallday me too!! I just think how wildly off the comments are here. Tbh so far eveything that have happened aren't too over the top, nor they have crossed the line.

 

[ASupremeTab]

I want to bonk Ibelina. She's as dense as harem protagonists! If not more!

 

[bagofsaltysalt]

every godammed guy is falling for u, nothing has changed

 

[bagofsaltysalt]

 

[Pokari]

Okay, but honestly I wouldn't think those symptoms were about her grieving for her husband, but rather for her life that's finally finished falling to pieces. Like, I thought everything made more sense before grieving for him was brought up XD

 

[Ritsuaka]

THE PLOT IS CONTROLLED BY THE WRITER
everything you do is on the whims of the writer, on stage and in the backstage, though on stage is the part that is in the story.

 

[Ritsuaka]

DON't turn to drugs no matter what
they can be more destructive than alcohol