I like this refreshing story because it centers around about two female MCs: A badass no nonsense war queen and reincarnated cunning inspiring designer/tailor who has to crossdressed as a man. The so called ML has more of an important supporting role.
If I were able to create my fictionous characters and worldbuilding, wouldn't it make ME the father/mother/parent of all these figures that came to life?
They are practically my children.
The myth of pygmalion is also about an artist who falls in love with his own creation that he made with his own hands.
So technically she the sculpture is his daughter.... That is so wrong and weird.
When I discovered this story, I was very thrilled to see a badass MC in a Royal Villainess story trope. But then I realized that Scarlet despite her power is still very inferior and powerless to the sadistic ML prince! I mean for god sake why isn't she hitting him at all? He keeps teasing her for his own amusement. And to make it worse, he is shown having no flaws or weaknesses - only that he is very bored.
Crown prince Cecil from Jishou Akuyaku Reijou na Konyakusha no Kansatsu Kiroku is similar but he is much more funnier, sympathetic, redeemable and you can see that he is not invulnerable. Julius Von Palistan is an entitled asshole towards Scarlet.
I believe, Rachel from The Villainess' Slow Prison Life Began With Her Broken Engagement is able to harm and anger Prince Julius.
Wow...I 100% agree. They’re really not “strong female leads” if some boring ass “perfect and flawless” male lead is enough to make them dumb in a second.
Scarlet really had potentials but in the end the author had to make the prince/ML her kryptonite.
It’s probably because she can’t hit royalty, she did hit royalty at the ball but since the ML is an ally she probs can’t
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omygod shoutout to prince cecil, i totally agree
This novel has the most depressing frustrating tragic hopeless sadistic setting and storytelling I ve ever read! It is so much worse than "I Swear I Won’t Bother You Again!" - Scumbag entitled ignorant fiance, innconent dumb priveleged younger half-sister and a shitty sexist father who resents his first born daughter because due to political marriage and a twisted negligent jealous mother.
https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/my-fiance-is-in-love-with-my-little-sister.26952/
Anyone who is upset with this devastating tale where the MC keeps suffering no matter what she does and her spinneless fiance/husband repeats having affair with her little sister, here are the best alternatives:
https://novelsformy.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-resetting-lady-is-epic-novel-i.html
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/her-royal-highness-seems-to-be-angry/
In "The Resetting Lady" the MC decided to kill anyone with an axe without any remorse after her 100th death/timeloop reset :)
In "Her Royal Highness seems to be angry" a powerful warrior mage princess reincarnate as a unwanted abused daughter in a family full of assholes but she manage to make the younger sister, fiance, father and mother fear her and lose their fucking faces ^^
These stories are practically the antithesis to the pitiful unloved daughter who is too kind to retialate.
P.S. Sadly no has picked up and officially translated "The Resetting Lady" yet.
i love you, please give me more <3 mwa
Well there is the novel "I Don’t Want to Be Loved".
I liked the aspect where the rebirthed MC managed cunningly to kick out her lowlife birth father and his two faced loved child daughter of the house of her birth mother.
But then the MC has to fall in love again with the op conquering prince/ML/alphahole who impregnated her half-sister and caused her death. It doesn't help that the narrator reveals in the following chapters that he always loved the MC despite initially hating her because his mother forced him the engagement, it was all bad misunderstandings and of course the femme fatale sister tricked him... So the straight prince had little fault...
He is just as shitty, dumb and insecure like the ML from the Abandoned Empress OR Lady to Queen !!!
I definitively recommend "IRIS - Lady with a Smartphone" and "Remarried Empress". These stories were more comfortable and empowering after reading the usual "reincarnated or misunderstood female MC falls in love again with her cheating self-entitled "perfect" husband/fiance who was manipulated/drugged/enchanted by another scheming force ;/
I call this bullshitt!!! I hate the fact that these authors have to come up with ridiculous explainations or far fetched conspiracies to excuse the abusive behaviours of their classic toxic sociopathic alpha ML. Google: The Beauty and The Beast Syndrome
Here are two novels where the prince and royal members are definitively not pardoned just because their criminal actions were influenced by some hidden forces/figures!
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/the-last-boss-witch-will-keep-her-past-selfs-crush-until-her-dying-day/
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/the-heavily-armoured-noble-girl-monette-how-to-break-a-curse-you-dont-remember-casting/
Thanks for the compliment!