okay so i binge read the whole novel -___-
I don't put the spoiler tag because i don't think it's a spoiler here, everything i'm going to discuss is my own opinion and feelings which I had when reading the first few chapters, this feeling was very, very light at first and only becomes stronger as the story goes on.
To new readers and current readers: skip me because I know I have super high standards lol. I think most people will enjoy this story and I really hope you do.
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I don't really like how the author forcibly twists the MLs character development to fit the story. The author has been doing this from the beginning, it becomes worse and worse later on.
Up until the latest manhwa chapter (c44): she is mistreated too much that it hurts just reading it.
Later (novel) : it's too clinche for my taste.
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I like the plot idea: the FL is hated by literally everyone and has to try her best to win their affection. At first I had high hope of seeing her skillfully dealing with people, turning people who were strongly against her to her side in a persuasive way. It's a very ambitious hope since I haven't found a manga/manhwa/manhua that could do it (as a main theme) consistently persuasive and satisfying up until now, I've read more than 1000 lol (**if you know one, please give me some suggestions!! )
For this FL: I pitied her very much, I like how she is calculating and deal with things with a cool head. HOWEVER it's a little overdone. When people change and treat her with sincerity, she is petty and pretty entitled, she insists on her salty attitude. It made me a little sad, why do FLs always have to be this way?
Let's face it: Although she sufferred too much psychologically, we also need to realize that the family still cared for her physically (All of the family members got angry knowing the maid messed up with her food. They poured her with luxurious dresses and jewelries. They didn't care for her feelings but they had never intentionnally mistreated her physically.) The only one who physically abused her was the maid Emily at the beginning, none of other family members knows it, not her brothers, not the Duke (that's why she could use it to threaten Emily into submission).
Honestly her life has been better than many other kids out there. She has been living on a ton of money which is hard earned by her father and brother. The father is way more generous with her than he is with his own sons. She really did nothing to be of help to them up until now. When she wants to go out, they would make sure someone guards her for her safety. When she got hurt physically, they would rush to her side and tend to her wound.
I got angry whenever she is abused whether in words or not, but it doesn't mean that everything she does is right and helpful.. They may be blind to her miseries but she is also blind to their kindness.
I wish she could be a little less self-absorbed to receive their kindness, as well as realize their other feelings.. That way she could have avoided cetain kind of dangers.