The growth spurt is always unrealistic. You mean to tell me they grew up in four years from children to fully adults? Because that's not a teen look. There wasn't any change either during the year they spent together prior setting the engagement.
Not only for the looks. Are we supposed to believe that in such a long time there has been no advance in their relationship? No development? They should have figured out something already if they just bothered to talk from time to time, or during those times the boy apparently brought her flowers every day. But it seems they are still stuck at the same point they were when they engaged. Everything feels stagnant and just waiting for the moment it bursts.
I know that it's not like they can speak against the prince, but nobody uttering a single word about the handicap is baffling O_O. First, not only is the prince arrogant enough to demand a duel when he's the one at fault, he also is too coward to face the challenge himself, and now he's not even playing on equal field.
And the people watching just take everything like it is? Really? Are they all really that empty-headed that they cannot even see the unfairness? No, I'll tell you they're actually enjoying it, since they all see the marquis as a clown for their entertainment Ò_Ó.
This story was underwhelming in all aspects. Every time a new plot knot was presented, I kept expecting scenes of its resolution that never came to pass. Characters are presented and abandoned haphazardly. Reading every chapter left me way too often disappointed and unfulfilled.
And about the male lead? I don't feel any pull from him, any energy. He's simply pretty-fied at every turn and that's all. Maybe because I'm male, so I'll wait for any female reader to tell me if they felt any doki-doki in their hearts for him.
I'm several episodes in, but every time the story leaves me with a bad after-taste. The husband is so in love with a wife that's no longer there, and FL is just accepting that place instead of telling the truth. It's ok to do so with the child, who never really knew the nice side of his mother, but the ML is something different. He knew who he was in love with, and it certainly wasn't the transmigrator.
I would never be able to trust such words of love, knowing they aren't actually meant for me.
The real-life Penelope's family is utterly disgusting ò_ó.
You know, at first I was giving them a pass (a tiny, tiny one) because if they didn't like Penelope that's just how things were like. You can't force anyone to like you, and they're not under obligation to love you.
But THIS?! Playing their stupid, cruel mind games on Penelope just to make her do what they wanted her to do instead of just talking it out like a normal, decent person? No, that's unexcusable. That's torture and it's an act purposely done on bad will.
So don't play repentant now, when you were well aware of what you were doing. You could have stopped, you could have developed a better relationship with Penelope in a dozen of different ways. You simply CHOSE not to, go to hell ò_ó











Why are chapters 32 and 33 the same? I've looked in a dozen of other manga sites and it's the same everywhere O_O?