This could have gone 1 of 2 ways
1) She just committed to her original personality and told everyone or let everyone reach the conclusion that the rumours were false or done for survival. And then everyone could be like wow she's like a dupe for our prior duchess, strange.
2) She could have played into the rumours and pretended to be dumb, secretly controlling things from behind the scenes/leading people to the desired outcome. With this, she could leave bread crumbs to her identity and selectively showed her intelligence causing those around her to question things as she slowly revealed more of her true self and then eventually 1 by 1 people realized her true identity. (I was REALLY hoping for this one)
This story has somehow done neither and it's just confusing and frustrating to me.
If I was part of the duchy I would be HELLA suspicious of her because she's supposed to have the mind of a child and yet she's:
- Doing formal greetings -> She should have just avoided most formalities from the beginning or acted more on the idea of a noble child where you expect them to be formal with you but you aren't with them.
- Having battles with words -> The tutor thing 110% could have been solved with her childish insistence that she and her now sister are princesses together and should be treated as such or calling the tutor out in an innocent way in which they are forced to admit they're wrong doings (ie. Hey, miss how are you a tutor when you can't remember how to do a proper greeting? or later tell the duke or one of his men "WOW, you guys here are so friendly, everyone in the castle used to only address me as princess but the tutor here calls me and Charlotte only by our names")
- Coming up with plans for travel tourism??? -> If she DID want to do travel tourism, she could have totally done something like "WOW! PRETTY LIGHTS! We should have a party/festival, to show other people the pretty lights!" and that would have gone with the child's mind persona.
But instead, she puts on this super random and clearly fake child act (which so far is just hugging ppl).
The pacing also feels really fast. Like EVERYONE is already associating her with the previous duchess.
Sorry for the rant, I was really looking forward to this because the concept was so good but somehow my beautiful masterminds always go down the path of Mary Sue I feel like a jerk. Anyways enjoy reading I guess (づ￣ ³￣)づ
I think that her personality being childish was a rumour spread out by one of the Prince's. I think, FL mentioned in 1st or 2nd chap. I'm not so sure. Also I am confused about the story too.
In ch 5. Fl thinks about restrictions and orange haired lady appears to be talking with white haired guy and it skips to fl reading from her mobile.
Then Gabrielle was her first transmigration into the novel and now it's peony.
So I wanted to know who was the orange haired lady. Was it some random recollection from the manhwa fl used to read or is it related to this story itself.
It is related, it was explaining that Orange haired and white hair are the OG FL and OG ML. Gabrielle, our FL first reincarnation was supposed to be the OG Villain, which didn't happen because she changed her future by marrying the Duke.
Gotchuuu!! Thankyou for clarifying (⌒▽⌒).
Number one she can’t act like that because if she acts like she never had the personality of peony the day servants and her brother will report back to the first Prince. He literally sent her brother and multiple servants there to watch over her. She has to play a RAW that feels bowl. She wants to break the mold that she’s not a stupid little girl well also showing that she is the previous Duchess wild, not arousing suspicion in the day personnel she lives three lives one of her Korean live, where she had a normal reincarnation death second or she lived her life as Gabby and died because she was kidnapped, and she only lived for survival and now she’s living her third life to live for love, and the things she didn’t do she doesn’t want to be a replacement. She wants to be with her love her self. She wants to admit that she loved him and she wants to get back to the place she was.
And your number two is literally what’s happening it’s just not happening at the pace. You want it to she is showing that she’s not stupid because she supposed to have the mind of a child but she showing that she still is naïve/child like and has a slightly different personality from Gabby, the previous Duchess, but she’s putting in certain words or phrases or saying, at certain times the exact thing that she would’ve said in her previous life leaving these people to connect the dots slowly like why she’s so much like this. Why do I see Gabby in her? and they all mention that they think that she’s been controlled by all the princes and they all know from their Intel that she was abused so I don’t see where you’re getting that they think that she was supposed to behave like this he immediately saw through and knew that the brother was threatening her and he grabbed her way His friends automatically knew when they talk to her that intel they got was wrong that she was playing a role for survival and that she was forced into that role by her abusive brothers and now that she’s free she’s able to let free her personality but not too much to wear it suspicious and she’s trying to play multiple roles at one time and you’re trying to force her into one. She literally has the knowledge of these three lives and she’s trying to combine them to be the best person to show up to the night people the day people enter husband. Like it’s confusing that you want her to breadcrumb, but she is by doing the same exact things that she did in her previous life while trying to keep up the naïve personality. It’s like you’re trying to fit her into one role and that’s why you’re confused.
Actually what I wanted was more depth to her role, as you stated she has had 3 lives and yet they only focus on one (the villainess). If someone had lived 3 times that means they would have a lot of secrets, experiences, feelings and different mannerisms that are hard to hide, which to me means you would either become overly cautious or try to commit to a certain act/story as a way to organize and control things better (and help you less likely mix things up). Also having lived and DIED 3 times has to do something to you psychologically but I felt that they don't even touch it. Furthermore, I was hoping to see the complexity of being beside the person you love while they don't recognize you and you have to figure out a way for them to realize it's you without being deemed as crazy (pining, love, rejection, frustration, desperation, etc). I wanted her to have more calculated and thoughtful interactions versus overly emotional ones that are less thought out. I do understand the MC regrets having been cold in her previous life but I was disappointed in how much she lets those feelings create less-than-ideal situations for her/completely control her, especially when she's already shown that she was a brilliant strategist in her 2nd life. Though there are some breadcrumbs she does intentionally, a good part of her clues are done unintentionally due to the fact that she immediately goes back into acting and performing duties like her old self unconsciously. The pacing of the story also felt off to me because they have too many things going on within one chapter.
What actually confused me was how the author took an idea that had so much potential, nuance, and complexity and whittled it down to a very basic plotline.
Also her 'convincing' her husband is super forced and honestly extremely triggering to him. Instead of gently leading him to the answer and letting him come to the conclusion himself, she's forcing the matter and just constantly reminding him of his dead wife. The fact that she hasn't thought about this either doesn't it right with me because if it were me, regardless of how strong my love is for them and how desperate I am to reunite with your loved one. There's still the moral question/fact that each time you bring up a memory of yourself in their memory, YOU are the one inflicting pain onto them, YOU are making them mourn your death all over again and YOU are making them feel guilt and conflicting emotions by your presence alone.
There being NO hesitation to inflicting such pain on your spouse, is wild to me. To say she didn't factor that in also doesn't make sense because 1- she's died like 2 times now so she's gone through the death process twice and 2- she's hella smart and a strategist. So why do they consistently throw away her character profile at random times and just always chop it up to love?
I'm so confused?? why does the ML get to act annoyed and jealous when he's been so shady?? heck, IS he even jealous?? I didn't think he was taking any of this seriously
I'm happy they have the MC being cautious and on guard in enemy territory. Too many times I see characters that are either super paranoid and combatant or more often than not, insanely naive and not careful at all.
His friends are DRAGGING him across the finish line and he's still somehow not even in the race This is such a cute story though, I'm especially happy that his friends are calling him out of his crappy behaviour too (even if they have to spoon feed him the answers).
WHO LABELS THEMSELVES AS 'LOVE~' IN THEIR SON'S PHONE !?!
Right
I literally grabbed my pillow and screamed into it. wtf. That was one of the THE MOST BRUTAL ways to break up with someone
yea, like why did he fuck him if he would break up with him anyway, wtf :(
Honestly, there being an empress and the kingdom, press, and judicial system still being SO heavily sexist made this story x100 more depressing.