
My heart feels so tight? I’m adopted myself, so when Anthy was distancing her self and talking about how she couldn’t relate to the real/original Anthy I was like, “really?” I think they’re taking her life as an orphan with a “the author was never an orphan” perspective/liberty but whatever ¯_(ツ)_/¯ the story is incredibly sweet and I hope Anthy comes around to realizing the “epilogue” and can save Claude from his brother! I also think Jenette deserves to be a part of the family and have her curse broken!!!!

I hate her because she knows Athy is on the run from her dad and can CLEARLY see her face when Janette talks about meeting with Claude. Unless shes stupid, that should be a great indicator to at least not bring the shit up. Like come on. I wouldn't have kept coming to her. If I was Athy, i wouldve left both of them and lived somewhere else peacefully

I tihnk Janette is acting reasonably, like... It would be rude to NOT go visit the emperor when he requests her, so I'd say that's more of a "she has to go and would have no way to explain why she isn't going to her father and Claude without revealing Anthy's location." Let's not forget either that shes super emotionally manipulated by Mr. White [Ezekiel's dad]
If I was Anthy, I would have sent Janette in with a mission like, talking to Lily or getting Claude to remember her. idk, ultimately Janette is like, still pretty young and super sheltered, but I get why her inconsiderate personality is grating!

I like, can’t understand what is even happening or the narrative....

No I just mean like, the first chapter starts with the conflict, but also very rushingly introduces the rebirth aspect? And then the information in the second chapter is also rushed and confusing. My understanding is that she was an orphan found by the church and found to be very powerful and is now stuck at the church, but this chapter also introduces her friend and focuses really strongly on her backstory without much attention,or to tie to her current situation. Like I didn’t read past chapter 2 but I assume she’s trying to marry the blonde guy so she doesn’t have to stay at the church maybe? I just felt like the narrative’s sudden switch to her backstory after such a strong beginning with the immediate conflict was incredibly jarring....

https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/beatrice.91248/
Someone in this forum was able to read the novel [which is only available in korean] and answered a few people's questions about the future of the story and some such. Even before reading this, I really didn't think the ML was as terrible as everyone else in the comments is seemingly making him out to be? [not saying sob stories fix things 100% but I just didn't think he was that cold to her to start with....]
...And I definitely appreciate the world/life building, but like, there is no obvious conflict yet. Like I’m sure this whole mixed race thing WILL be the conflict but like, definitely feeling like if the art wasn’t so good I’d have gotten bored at this point...back to it I guess
Okay yeah, chapter 20 and I’m just feeling like whatever conflict will exist in this story is just brought on by the severe lack of information Estelle has, and for some reason the author doesn’t want to give the reader that information either (as foreshadowing, dramatic irony, or even just building the actual story) sadly think I’m gonna drop this.