Go off girl!!! Everyone wanted revenge, sure I do too, but what I want more is for Maxi to heal and move on from her trauma. And for her and Riftan to navigate and solve some of their marriage problems.
Yes
Girl, I wanna slap your shoulder so bad, you're making me giddy! Hahahaha! Please, I'm so satisfied of this. I'm laughing so hard like I'm that stepmother with some twisted mindset, but of course not. I support this! Where can we print this and spread around? Y'all... I'm so hyped!
I don't get why people are so impatient about Riftan learning about the abuse. First of all, is that what you're here for? You want a big strong made up man to punish a made up abusive man for what he did to his made up daughter, not to see her move on from the abuse and become much more than that? This is the main story you are here for? The ultimate wish fulfillment fantasy??
This isn't a revenge story nor one of those "getting back at your bullies" plots, it's about the character growth and life of a heroine, and her being a more confident and capable person who can stand her ground is a lot more fulfilling of a way to get her life back after being conditioned as an abused child her whole life than any shallow iteration of those villainess/isekai/time travel "I was weak because x cartoon villain/bully did x to me now I got superpowered by sheer luck and I'll show you all!" plots which are swarming the webtoon space lately. If you wanna get the wish fulfillment part over with quickly and move on with ur life this aint it. If anything I'd say this is what makes this story fun.
Imagine if Skip Beat wasn't Kyouko starting out as a person who wants to be successful for revenge but finds out what she needed are people she can care for and who care for her and a job she feels passionate about and eventually realizing she doesnt care about revenge anymore, but just her getting immediately famous because she was secretly already talented all along and got extremely lucky on top of it, then going "told you so!" to her ex and then everyone would just bow to her for being so amazing and that would be it. Such stories imo suck and are lazy, and this is clearly a very slow telling of a whole ass life with a bunch of arcs in it, because the focus is the mc's trajectory and development. I'm not saying it's the best or has no issues, just that it's not that type of story.