Well... The title IS called "I'll be the Matriarch in this Life"....
That’s very true sir. Lmao. I love how you had to pointed out the title. LMAO. Tbh I had already spoiled myself the general gist of the story by going to spoiler thread. So it’s like whatever. You know the romance doesn’t really happened until she’s older. or at least when she could actually meet the prince freely
hmm,, consider this tho
1) The main character of this story is the female lead, 2) her main problem before she died was the fact that she wasnt able to step up to her cousins and save her family. 3) now that she has a new life she wants to save her family and her father from meeting the tragic end that her past life had in store for her.
I dont necessarily see the need for a male lead just yet, her main problem and goal as of now is to help her father business and keep her father and grandfather safe.
as for the male lead that still isnt confirmed with the chapters we see rn i think itll be 10-25 more chapters before our little FL will end up helping or saving the male lead, it might even be vise versa.
Also the fact that there is no variation given yet means that a huge part of the plot will happen soon, calm before the storm you know that saying right? and its even being hinted at us with the fact of the prince’s soon to be assassination with the newly given poison to the maid.
well imo you wouldnt be able to fully understand/grasp the story without this part of it yk? if you werent told HOW she was doing all of this, what she went through before, how she got to the point where romance COULD happen, etc. you would just have 1/3 of a story.
if you just introduce them as they did in the beginning w no backstory aside from a short retelling, it wouldnt have the same mental anguish as seeing this kid in the woods as the story progresses on its own. if u just saw a pretty pretty fem lead and a hot masc lead, youd assume it was like every other story. but by introducing her as someone who has struggled and making you aware of that, its making the story have more depth.
no idea if what i said made sense but tldr: if it didnt have those chapters as buildup this story would be dryer than your moms pussy man.
I love this story a lot, the female lead is strong, smart, and doesn't let things get in her way. But at this point this feels less like a romance story and more like a story of her life. Which is fine, but we met the Prince once and then haven't really heard from him since, and we are coming up on 40 chapters.
What I'm saying is that I'm worried this story is either A) going to take an incredibly long time and possibly be near 200 chapters and I'm selfish and don't want to wait (but will continue to do so). Or B) will rush towards the end and not give us enough time to truly feel the romance swell and them work together to better the Lombardy family and the Empire through the Prince.
I'm not saying that they need to be in love or meet right away, but just that I would like to see a bit more variation in what's happening. Right now it feels a lot like; problem that the family would cause by being dumb, Tia comes up with a plan to make it better, Grandpa is impressed by Tias ability as is one other important person, Tias plan comes to fruition and things are great and now she has one more person on her side, rinse and repeat.