I really like the isekai trope, i really like the enemies to lovers trope, the same goes for fl who overcomes a bad situation/change her future, and this story wanted to be all of those thigs SO BAD that forgot to have a plot.
In the beginning things kinda made sense, we had a clumsy, generic main couple, our fl was a little bland, but nothing terrible, nothing out of the ordinary. Was this going to be my favorite? No, but i would have my fun.
But then, out of ABSOLUTELLY NOWHERE it became a completely different story.
Besides the weak original plot, with the evil-for-no-reason mil, the crazy maids, him not moving a muscle to protect her even though he was aware of her standing in the house (because even the worms in the garden where), somehow this became a fighting for power, next emperor is crazy omg, type of thing.
FOR
NO
REASON
Why ? Why keep saying that the villain was adopted if was not important to the plot? Why was fl "sterile" if it didn't change anything? What happened to the siblings? Why did the mil was such a bitch for no apparent reason? Who was the crazy dumbass that hired a man with bad blood with the family to be a physician? Why the butler, who knew everything, didn't think "well this is kinda weird, this is strange, my boy duke was not dying until this man who hates this family came here"??????????
But what hurts me is that the author KNEW the story where badly told, in the end they explained that is hard to translate novels in comics, witch i agree, i couldn't do it, but i NEVER EVER before read that in a final chapter.
If even the author have to say that the story may be lacking plot points or be a little confusing and that the reader should read the original product too for better understanding, the how can i not agree that this was rushed, confusing and overall bad?
TLDR: Too much ideas, too little time developing them. The initial idea was ok, black cat husband and puppy wife nursing him, but it was just too much, too fast, with too little explanation or background, not to mention the personality changes of the main couple and the giant plot holes (WHERE ARE THE SIBLINGS? didn't this whole thing happened because of them?, i'm i crazy?)
I think this had a lot of potential but kinda missed the spot.
Look i like the poor-girl-meets-the-prince trope just as much as the next girl but this time she was just so bland, so goody two shoes for no reason, i just couldn't care about her.
The relationship was rushed, the end was rushed, it feels like half the plot was cut. They went out to tour the kingdom and saw two places and that was it? The brother was causing trouble all around but it was a *gasp* moment when ml said he was the one that put the bounty on her?
I don't know, i'm sure i forgot more things that didn't quite click for me, but in the end the problem is: the main couple is too bland, you could describe them with a word each, she is kind he is princely and that's it, the plot forgot to exist around the middle, jumping all around, things happening with absolutely no foreshadowing or so much so that it was obvious.
Again, a lot of potential, could be great, fumbled the execution.
TLDR> I wish it was more like Hana and The Beastman an less like your run of the mill "too kind to exist, but being a doormat makes you attractive" type of plot.
Are they red flags? yes
But to be honest so are the gods, and if the gods can't be trusted you can't expect more of men.
I vote for the harem to start, and when one of them starts with the crazy she can just whip it away.
Let's be colorblind and live in the bliss of red and green looking the same. ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
I just love it?
How do i make myself forget this story so i can read it again?
Is this the sign the gods are sending for me to build a brainwashing machine and use it on myself?
Let's be real, Callisto is a gift for the women of the world, Penelope is a intelligent, cunning, beautiful, slightly crazy, baby girl and those last chapters just took me down.
I want to bottle this and get high on it.
The family going back to blaming her? The brainwashed brother just kinda felling something is off but still being shit? The magic man felling frustrated cause he behaved like a dumbass and got curbed? All of this leading to the mad dog prince, the unhinged king, the i-don't-care-about-anyone beauty of a man that is Callisto to SEE how she was living and deliver that MASTERPIECE of a speech to her while she is stuck on the you-can't-die zone ?
I'm dead, gagged, just pulling my chair so i can sit while waiting for more chapters of this so i can see them happy when she wakes up.
OMG
THE END OF AN ERA
i never thought i would be alive to see him confessing, its been so long