
Wait can someone clear this up for me? Derek’s hypnotized right? Then the person at fault would technically be Yvonne. I’m confused, someone help me.

yea technically he is hypnotized. but it's revealed that people who genuinely do care about penelope like calisto, reynold, Winter are unable to be completely hypnotized by yvonne. basically derek was an asshole who didn't care about penelope from the start, so yvonne just needed to push him a little bit.

Reynold was hypnotize too tho but dev resistance after this event. I guess Penelope dying spiked his care for her. I think Yvonne got him initially because a part of him wanted to believe Yvonne was his sister and he had slight doubt that Penelope coldness towards Yvonne could be a problem. Note that Yvonne brainwashing only exaggerate neg feelings to extreme and make doubts seems reals.
Derek was more susceptible because he was mentally weak given when she brainwash him she gave him "I forgive you~" speech and the guy was desperate for that bc he was the one that got Yvonne lost when they were kids. But yeah he was pretty bad right at the beginning so even without the brainwash he would still caused trouble haha. He just keeps doing the same mistakes haaaaa

I fucking hate her shitty family. They literally unalive any children they think aren't good enough. I hope author makes mc not forgive any of her shitty family's actions, but from where this is going, it looks like it's going the "let's ignore every shitty thing our family did" route. Now onto the dad. Wtf is wrong with you, making a 3 year old run miles and carry rocks? Shouldn't you be thinking about how to get your children out of this hell? On that note, why is the fl not trying to run away? If it were me, I would steal the family's money, run away, hire assassins, and then tell them to massacre the entire family. The family already murdered the innocents, so it's fine. And don't forget, the vassal families literally bet on children they think are going to be the heads of the family like they're at an auction.

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uhmmm cause it's fantasy and not reality/modern/slice of life? And how can you steal the family's money in the first place, when as you said they don't just casually trust or support some random successor and if you read and understand clearly, word by word, the chapters, it said that the mc is too weak to do any of that (mind you that almost or all of the characters have power and the mc do not, well as of now). i know it's your opinion but... ¯_(ツ)_/¯
The sis is kinda a bitch for leaving the kids with her brother. Like, he's a damn university student, why do you think he'll be able to take care of them properly???
the mother is a bitch for abandoning her 3 kids period