You’re forgetting that this is survival for her, it’s a life or death situation for her all the time, and even at the end you see that despite all her efforts, it’s practically impossible for her to survive. Ofc she doesn’t have the time of day to waste caring about the minor feelings of all the people that would’ve killed her if she didn’t put a hell of an effort in to manipulate their emotions to be less negative towards her.
Well this is not your typical story when the FL change her attitude after she went back time or transmigrates then the other characters reaction to her will also change.
No, I haven't forgotten, I stated that her behaviour is understandable. I don't think she needs to be compassionate at this stage of the novel, my problem lies on what happens after the happy ending, years after the happy ending and how she treats others around her at that time. Even when her child goes missing her first thought is something like ah, I have a hard life and only starts to panic when she sees the nanny crying. A pity the author even in the extras only concentrated on Penelope's self-fulfilment and her resentments but not on her improvement emotionally and psychologically.
At first I thought this is a common 'the heroine gets over through every obstacles meanwhile everyone hurts her but the end she is victorious and happy' type of story and in some sense it is. But before everything, psychological tag should be added.
Everyone in this story is broken. Penelope is kinda like a psychopath. She doesn't care of anybody but herself, doesn't see anyone as human, she just uses them as she wishes, every thoughts of her are revolved around herself. Even in the latest chapters in the novel, her first thoughts are always on herself and hurts others, including Callisto, without much thought. It's understandable, taken into account of her past life and her current life experiences. What I don't like is that literally everyone has a character development later on but not her. You'll need to wait until the very last extra for her to behave like a normal person.
Derrick situation is the worst. He is the heir, has a big pressure in his shoulders but brought his siblings out without permission and escorts and lost his little sister, who was like an angel and loved dearly by everybody. He killed his own sister and ruined his family. He was just a child and noone helped him to cope with all of these. And when his father brought a look-alike, he was reminded on his sins day and night. Even worse, the lookalike didn't behave like the lost child and turned out to be very different from Yvonne. On top of that he fell in love with her. It's just natural that he is the most vulnerable for Leila's brainwashing because he would do everything to change that day and get her sister back. I thought a miracle happened when he broke the brainwashing.
Eclise became insane when he understood that Penelope is just using him and doesn't give a damn what happens with him. It took a lot of time for Penelope to tell him at least one nice sentence, at the very end of their last conversation. Honestly, I was satisfied when Eclise finally let it go and left her behind with the monsters.