Don't give on the webtoon! Just imagine seeing all the soon to come crazy moments with this webtoon beautiful art! The scene will hit different too!
Also I didn't spoil everything. I left a lot of stuff out and bc of some error (mangago cut 90% of the things i wrote in part 2) my previous reply didn't have the final confrontation Penelope has to face. So yeah look forward to that. ;)
Sure Eclis is a fault for giving in to his desires. But.....
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I think it was doomed to happen tho bc of Penelope too.
She only see him as a tool to get out. Groomed him to develop feelings (for her) that she doesn't reciprocate. She doesn't feel any romantic obligation towards him, thus she rarely visits him. (I'm pretty sure she visited him 2-3 times). Her rendezvous with the Prince and their relationship was the talk of the mansion too and reached him.
Penelope rarely visiting him with all these rumors, he's left with jealousy and people/servants/knight that threats him like sh*t and when he does see her she's with the Prince and gets shoo away since he's a slave (he can't do anything about).... These are all fuels for his jealousy, search for power and obsession (because she made him believe their allies and the kind-outcasted and misstreated). And Leila brainwash magnified all these feelings.
Anyway her treatment of Eclis that lead him to his death is very much one of Penelope's regret.
I forgot... We also must consider Eclis perspective.
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He doesn't know Penelope plans to leave the family/mansion. All he knows is that the love of his life is trapped in a mansion/family that hates her. Thus he feels he must "save her/get her out" and he can't do it since he's a slave. He brought Yvonne to push the servants to pick the "real princess of the house" side thus Penelope will desire to leave for this purpose too . It's messed up.
If he saw Penelope more often and saw she's not some lady who can't stand on her own against those that hate her. He prob wouldn't give in easily to the brainwash, obsession and the delusion that they can't stay in the mansion
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Actually at the very end Eklies didn't die from the impact and was able to survive but forgot everything that happened, soon he found Penelope by chance and followed her for 3 years to protect her and seeing that Penelope is pregnant during those pages when Iklies said "Who are you?" Cause he doesn't know why he's been following Penelope then Penelope whispered "Iklies." She then point through the north and said "Head north and you'll find something there." Iklies then head north and I think became the owner of that kingdom.
Spoiler i just realized I wrote a long as* spoiler reply so i might as well share it in a post for others to read.
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Near the prep for Penelope's coming of age, Eclis brought in Yvonne (something about he found her). This is very much a betrayal in Penny's eyes since with Yvonne's gone the hostility of the mansion staff is sure to spike and will demand the three the 'fake/adopted' princess (Penelope) because the real one is back.(and it did happen.
The staff treatment of her is spiked) Eclis knew this would have happen and did it on purpose bc Penelope refused his suggestion of eloping (he doesn't want her to stay in the mansion with people hating her) days earlier. This broke the relationship between them. Note that Yvonne brainwashed Eclis, the brothers so they easily give in to jumping to the worst conclusion when it comes to Penelope. The brain wash made them see her a villainess that hate/bully Yvonne.
The fathers is happy Yvonne's back but still love Penelope too. Even if Penelope asked to cancel her coming of age party/debut (bc it's sure the nobles will remark and talk about how she will get kicked out bc Yvonne is back), the Dad did it anyway and threw and GRAND coming of age party with all the things penny liked and things original Penelope asked him in the past. All this to prove to make up for his absence (0 parenting) in her life in the past and to show she is strongly loved and won't be kicked out.
Penelope however is not happy at all. All her works did nothing. The mansion hates her (except duke, Butler, emily), pink brother is back to not thrusting her fully bc of Yvonne's brainwash (so we sort of lost the sibling bond he started to have with Penny), he has no way out since Eclis betrays her, Yvonne's staging her poisoning scene where it will come out Penelope's the culprit ( she's recreating a scene from the game where she can get Penelope out of the picture and get/brainwash Prince) ... Yvonne's plans backfired because Penelope is so broken and done with everything she grab the glass (she was supposed/set up to pass it to Yvonne thus become 1st suspect) and drink the poison in front of everyone while saying "to the real princess(yvonne) return~". She almost dies.
Duke and prince search for the culprit, i could be wrong but they suspected it was Yvonne's maid. Yvonne's brainwashed the maid so she was out of suspect but, was confined in her chambers while Penelope is recuperating thanks to Vinter antidote. When she woke up she ask the duke to let her go since she hates the mansion and everyone hating her. Duke refuse since he see her as her daugther. Penelope then ask Duke to look at Yvonne's reflection (mirror doesn't show her) and thus he starts to suspect Yvonne is not his daughter when they have tea and saw she didn't a reflection on the tea .
At this point Eclis is no longer trusted by Penelope, he doesn't want to be abbandoned and is jealous about the Prince who is close to Penny. Yvonne used these feelings of his and brainwash him to start a rebellion agains the kingdom and Prince (i don't remember this part well sorry). Everyone found out Yvonne is possessed by Leila leader of a cult and an immortal and dark being. Kinda like Voldemort in HP.. Also Eclis rebellion is backed up by Yvonne/Leila's followers.
There was a fight where she attacked the Duke (thanks to Penelope's charm/gift, one we see in the webtoon too, he teleportated away) and Derrick tried to stop Yvonne but couldn't because she's his sister. Yvonne stabbed himself (i could be wrong but he broke the brainwash after this). At this point, Penelope left the mansion. Derrick is healing and Pink brother (idk remember how write his name haha) become alcoholic because he realizes he did Penelope wrong again when he was brainwash, while drunk he ask Penelope (who's not around) to forgive him.
I don't remember much this part, but Prince stopped the rebellion and Eclis dies while still being brainwashed. Penelope beat Leila who told her, she repeated this timeline as Yvonne hundreds of times (like a game played repeatedly) and killed Original Penelope purposely each time and confess that this time it was harder to brainwash everyone especially The Prince (because he cannot love Yvonne since he loves Penelope already). I don't remember how Penny defeated her (something about a mirror...), Vinter was trapped in something to help Penny defeat Yvonne. He could have defeated Yvonne but couldn't because she saved him when he was young. He firmly believes Yvonne could be saved and change bc she was nice to save him. However Yvonne back then was already possessed by Leila (she was setting the trope for him to fall in love in her so she can easily brainwash him).
After defeating Yvonne/Leila, the real Yvonne appear (just her feelings), since she was possessed when she was young she's like a girl / child and she ask Penelope to tell her brothers she loves them or thank them they kept searching for her... I don't remember. In the middle of this mess, Calisto/prince announced his engagement to Penelope and Penelope started living in the castle (she love him so she was okay with it). With Yvonne gone, Callisto hunting Leila/Yvonne's leftover followers, Penelope come backs to the mansion to say her final goodbye to the Duke and yell him Yvonne/Leila is dead. and she admits she'll never forgive them for her mistreatment / (i think she did it for Original Penelope tho). The duke begs to not leave the family (he's ok with her leaving but not her not being his daughter anymore. She's her daughter in his eyes no matter what). The duke ask her where she will go. And she told him she doesn't know yet (she has no intention of staying in the castle. She still wants to be archaeologist like she wanted before becoming Penelope).
She goes to her room and the mansions staff/servants are all respectful of her now because she's gonna be queen, she saved them from Leila/Yvonne. But she doesn't care for any of it. She just went back to see Emily (maid) and get rid of all the things related to the game and affection raising system. Like Derrick necklace gift. She went to incinerator to burn them personally.
That's when a wounded and still recovering Derrick shows up and ask her stays and not marry the Prince. Penelope told him Real Yvonne's message and told him she won't because she doesn't want to be threatend like a caged bird. She's referring to Derrick's method of keeping her bad reputation around so he can keep her locked in the mansion and thus not be with the prince. Note that Derrick is in love with Penelope all this time and she hated being called brother by original and present Penelope bc he doesn't want her to be his sister (he doesn't want to replace Yvonne with her too).
He even tried to force her to stay by grabbing her hand but was stopped by the Prince who came bc he was worried this would have happen. Callisto told Derrick to back off. Penelope told Derrick to recover (he started bleeding during the talk). This they leave the mansion. Vinter was free too (i don't remember when it happened tho. He's still in love with Penelope).
Altho Penelope and the Prince are engaged, it takes some years before they marry. This was possible thanks to the Duke/Father (altho she left the mansion, she was still registered as his daughter) who with his influence convinced the nobility to hold on the wedding. He also did because he hates Callisto (he's not good for her... He's acting like an overprotective Dad that doesn't want to see his baby-daugther marry haha). He also sent the flowers Penelope said she liked.
Penelope is not aware of he's the one sending him flower however. She's not a flower person so she doesn't pay attention to the flowers that always there in a vase. After their farewell they never interacted again. This is also because Penelope is traveling around the world and become and famous Archaeologist (reason why the Duke see her as his pride too). Penelope got pregnant and went back to the mansion (it's tradition her family knows and approve the marriage).
The Duke is overjoyed by her return. She also found out his hobby become gardening, the flowers he sents her are all grown by him. He did so because he wanted to do good and give her something she likes plus he realized the flowers are the only he knows Penelope likes (he realized how absent he was for her). She told she's pregnant and he's so shocked he asked to prepare the military because he thinks the Prince forced himself on unmarried girl which is also his precious daughter! Penelope cleared the misunderstanding and told him their (Penelope and Callisto) love is mutual.
Time skip. Penelope got a daughter who's is magically gifted and powerful that looks like Callisto. Her daughter is very loved by the Duke and Pink Brother (in fact she lovesgoing to the duke's mansion