Though I May Be a Villainess, I'll Show You I Can Obtain Happiness! - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - I Will Definitely Get My Engagement Annulled! ~I will become a V…

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@Vasqueztion Everyone (myself included) hates the first chapter, because the prince is a grade A jackass. What he did was textbook emotional abuse, manipulating the situation to illicit a certain reaction from her while hurting her in the process, and making seem like it was her fault to begin with for not confessing her feelings. This is the stuff toxic relationships are made of.
 
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@Vasqueztion : fr the first one , I dislike it because you do not test someone's love for you when the rules of your society say she should react to the test in certain ways regardless of her feelings. The fake lover test is more likely to backfire from the fiance trying to preserve their families honour (canceling the engagement is a huge political slap in the face), or not make things worse for themselves (which are already horrible if you consider how their societies tend to treat abandoned women and worthless, where being shipped off to a convent and forgotten about is likely her best hope), then pass.
 
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Sorry, I just had to comment before I start the actual chapter. I'm on the character page right now. "She curls her hair to become a villainness"??? REALLY?
... Hopefully the story will be better. omg. srsly.

Edit: done. okay-okay, it was cute, I really liked it :D
Sophia just gets distracted by random stuff (e.g. hair curling).
 
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Well, I can say she tried, but alas, the heroine was too dumb to use that stage. So now poor vilianess is stuck with loving husbando and pair of kids😀
She tried indeed
 
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how is the first one terrible but this one isnt, she lied to him and tried to trick him into a marriage with a scheming bitch. the only reason this one worked out was that he had everything under control and the first woman didn't.
 
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To me, she was ice because of her ideal of "being the perfect wife" and him wanting to thaw her before she broke under the pressure. Even in the flashback he didnt show disdain towards her; rather he told her to lighten up a little, which further pointed towards his goal. Yeah, he may have used the 'baiting jealousy' strategy, but this has been used countless times before.
The "protagonist" was just a silly red herring.

I guess it's just a matter of opinion and viewpoint.
 
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@botodopo the difference is that she tried to find an happy ending to both instead of selfishly test your love. She is a bit dumb for choosing poorly, but it was a lot less egoistical than the first.
 
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Just want to add my thoughts in with the others, @Vasqueztion I'd say the issue is that it was basically over-dramatized. The idea that he needed to fake breaking off the engagement (setting aside the public spectacle or the family stuff) to get her to be honest is pretty extreme. He was testing her love, and was stringing the baroness along... While it wasn't portrayed as emotional abuse in the context of the story, it rubs a lot of people the wrong way with how it's basically like going on a date with someone else in front of your current SO and acting in love with that person while badmouthing your SO as just a test to see if they'll fight to make the relationship work, hurting not only your SO but the person you're pretending to date in the process.

This chapter covers a similar premise (a fake annulment) but it doesn't rub the issue wrong because the 'villainess' actively wanted this event to happen (so if anything she was only hurt when the Prince didn't annul their engagement but given that she was doing it so he could find love and he did love her that was fine), and the Prince using the 'heroine' was explained in a way that doesn't make the prince come off as a scumbag (he wasn't pretending to be in love with her to test the person he did love, he was getting friendly with her to investigate criminal activities with her family and played along with annulling the engagement to expose said criminal activities along with his personal motivations). The difference is that in the first scenario you could accomplish the character's goals without going to the extreme lengths they did, and that was really only done to make the one-shot fit in with this collection of stories, as a character like the guy in the first story should have tried lesser methods to bring her out of her shell before jumping to an extreme (we are lead to believe he didn't by the extent both of the girls believe that he actually loved the 'heroine' which implies that he made gestures that showed love to her but not to the 'villainess' who he actually loved), while in this chapter the guy just played along with two separate plots in an attempt to flirt with the 'villainess' (after he went through the effort to find out what was going on with the woman he loved) and to attempt to uncover criminal activities with the 'heroine', so it makes sense that he went along with it because of the situation that the other two had crafted while the guy in chapter 1 played an active role in crafting a situation that was unnecessary for his aims (as he could have just spent time with the MC and got her to open up little by little at a rate she was comfortable with rather than cracking open her shell with a sledgehammer).

Sorry for the ramble and hope that you don't feel overwhelmed from all of the people responding!
 
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A little easy to see through, but that's literally what the story is about. Soooo ... not sure if really good writing or ... not. Either way, +1.
 
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seeing the discussions here in this ch's thread makes me happy... thank you to all of those who explained the differences between ch1 and ch3. it helps!!!

i gotta say, i love how MC was so overconfident that she ended up overestimating her self-designated "heroine" like "i made it so easy for you but you still messed up wth" it's hilarious
 
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Finally a decent villainous woman's fiancee, that crown prince was. He said he knew her fiancé for 10years..! He has done his homework to understand his fiancee's character. That much is already already appreciated. Unless there's a screw loose in their head, people won't become bad without a just cause.

Unlike other worthless fiance of the villainous woman, who seems to forget their homework and shrugged the problem under the rags.

There are seems some ppl who discuss and comparing the first and the third. Well it seems interesting, let me join okay.. Fufu

First story.. The problem is with that guy, solving a knot in a relationship with jealousy is not a healthy encouragement. Idk what to say anymore, i just hate him so much. There would be scratches and bruises left behind. Not to forget since it was a successful attempt, the guy might even bring in another woman whenever problems arise throughout their relationship. Scary.

The third, the fl might look the same with the first's ml. But there a simple but crucial point that differs them. Here, what she was trying to do is to dissolve the knot to completely cut it clean rather than solving it. At the condemnation event, i think we are clear that the fl has yet fallen in love with the prince. Knowing this, the amicable crowned prince however, defended the knot and eventually solving it as time passes by.


And there's also the same point of the these two stories. Both fl is ah.. A bit stupid, i think.
 

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@botodopo - I think that the main reason why the 1st story was more hated than this one is because

In story #1 the Prince could've just talked to the MC but instead, accused her wrongly, hurt her, just for the sole purpose of making her confess her true feelings. Also, pretty sure he knew she loved him but he wanted her to say it out loud.

In story #3 the MC CRAFTED a situation to make the Prince fall in love with another (the actual villainess) but in no way did she actually (mentally) HURT the Prince. The fact that she's an idiot, and the Prince saw right through her and was enjoying himself is irrelevant.
 
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Yeah no. Ditto to all the reasons given on the difference between chapters 1 and 3.

First one was unpleasant. This one was just a hilarious comedy of errors. The "villainess" forgot to qualify her heroine properly, and the "heroine" forgot to...think.

....Also thanks to HaruParty for the reading list of the big ones. Feed the interest all you can!
 

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