
The sister can kick rocks. She just rubs me the wrong way. As the youngest sibling my sister does confide in me about her relationship and issues. Of course, depending on the severity of the situation, she may wait a few weeks to months to process. But she will still tell me at the very least vague details regardless if I can help or not.
His sister is ridiculous, she chooses not to confide in her brother but when he mentions Kang all of a sudden she wants to talk.

Not to be rude. But the duke chose to be a pawn for YEARS because of his father’s ashes. Seriously. They couldn’t think of a better plot device. So, the ML is willing to die and have his close aids suffer for ashes. I get the sentiment it’s your father but he couldn’t just capture and torture the king when he came back from the first war. Just doesn’t make sense. I’m going to drop because the fl and ml both don’t have their head on straight. Fl could have communicated with her sister or ruined their family relationship with the first prince and took the princess side. While the ml could have tortured the emperor years ago and reclaimed the ashes. (P.S. the ashes probably don’t exist)

Okay. Just a theory. I think the seme is the monster in Frankenstein. He looks like he is sewed at the head, limbs and feet. Plus everyone seems afraid of him and he doesn’t know anything. This seems like a cool spin-off of Frankenstein and how he finally finds someone who isn’t afraid of him. I could be reaching but I see similarities.

I’m kinda confused, the FL could have used the Duke’s interruption and praise of her work to create more clientele. I get that they were laughing at her after, but she could have put on a fake smile and ask if they would like to try as their so interested. Plus the Duke is there so he will be giving death glares and the nobles would have no choice but to say Yes!!! Then the real magic works.
I get wanting to settle the situation, but she was not doing a good job as the AHOLE was already making people think that her product was bad. Then all she wanted to do was allow that AHOLE to sample her product which wouldn’t happen. The FL could have at least said a snarky comment to appease my rage but she didn’t. The Duke has money and influence in that party while she is a broke investor of sorts. The people are not going to ignore the Duke because of this!!! So USE him to your advantage and advertise that he uses your products.
Extra:
I just thought of this now but the FL could have said, well for such a cheap sent why would sos ( the host lady) enjoy it. Or are you saying that (the host) has a poor taste in perfume.
* the AHOLE would be unable to say too much as the host has INFLUENCE.
The FL would then continue by saying, plus my product which you call cheep, is unique as it’s suitable for users that have sensitive skin. (The she would tell about her energize product) So I would like to know about your products, if mine or so called cheep.
* the lady would tell about her products
The FL starts to be a little snarky and critiques her product. Then asks for a sample ( the way the AHOLE was snatching her perfume it didn’t look like she had any samples of her own just her big mouth) so she would be unable to share her ‘knowledge’.
Then scene.

Even though her work can speak for itself, majority of the investors will not try it because she has no weight to her name in that room. If they don’t try it how will people know of it’s value. I get she’s trying to distance herself but in that moment she could have used the opportunity he gave. Plus she can’t distance herself too much due to the perfume he buys as that’s her biggest client. She needs to make connections, even with the host. She could have used that connection to get further in that door of business. Sure, she wants to fight her own battles but she’s not going to win without the help of others. She needs to have a name to her products that have solid base of well know nobles using her products. Especially, as she is aiming for nobles in social circles.
I hope IYeon tells him that his brother was trying to sleep with him. I dislike it when manga doesn’t have the mc disclose that their sibling or friend was trying to sleep them. Especially when that later the drama ramps up with the brother and the main characters are clueless.