It’s been what? 30 chapters? And Astina still cannot understand that she is doing the same thing over again? That she is pushing him away just like she pushed Theo away and treating Teriod as Theo had treated her.
She’s so afraid that she might not be loving him genuinely that she is masking all of her actual feelings and her fear is making her unsure of what is true and what is not.
This isn’t even something that can be talked out between the two of them anymore I feel. I fear that somebody is going to have to force some sense into her.
I had just finished chapter 6 or 7 when they brought up the mom going missing again. And I thought it was weird that she didn’t have any mention of leaving or such. Then I went back and reread the chapter where half-sis turns her into a cat initially and she talks about how mom wanted to take her back and how it “worked again” etc. And after rereading the first chapter, it hit me!
The half-sister turned her into the parakeet from the beginning! And once the parakeet was able to “say her mothers name” aka say her own name and learn to talk thus start to be able to tell people that the daughter is a sorceress and what she did. She kept it with her at all times!!!
Idk if that bird is dead now or not, but omg that’s 100% what she did!!
Excuse me but where did you find the parakeet? In what chapter? Because after reading your comment i went back to the beginning to see it but i can't find any chapter with a bird saying the mom's name
it's in the first chapter page 14.
Ooh okay thank you!
Holy shit, good revelation that is so sinister idk why I didn't connect that
Holy shit! You're right. The stepmother is the parakeet. Damn. The foreshadowing is so subtle you almost missed it
U R SO RIGHT!! It was the step-mother and I kid you not, I'm bawling my eyes rn cuz of it. the step-mther died cuz the cage she was in fell in the balcony.
that daughter bitch was so evil. the step-mother was so nice to marie that's why it hurts ╥﹏╥
But I personally am tired of the black leopard trope. I prefer when they just have the leopard be their beautiful golden color with the black spots and such. Not every leopard or big cat in a story needs to melanistic or leucistic or albino etc. The normal color of some of these bigs cats are beautiful. Except for golden tigers, those are my favorite.
I suddenly remember, the seme in kuroneko series were leopard right?
This manga really had me for the first 6 maybe 8 chapters. But by this point I’m just getting bored by how long it’s taking for any real growth in the relationship between these two, specifically mutually. Like yeah, their feelings have grown but there was just so much that they had to cover here and that they’re trying to pack on that it feels like they’re trying to get to the next plot point before they fully resolve even the last three.
Spoilers ~
I mean, he got transported to this new world that’s a novel of his sisters. So he’s gotta resolve his feelings on that.
Then he’s gotta resolve his feelings on most likely being an omega.
And resolve his feelings on being in a gay relationship.
And resolve his feelings on being in a lower class with a high class partner.
Like, none of these are really resolved at all before they skip to the next one. Sure, he says he realizes he doesn’t care that he’s a guy, but it doesn’t *feel* like he worked his way through that. So everything just feels both rushed and slow at the same time.
I think maybe I’d feel more invested in the story if by this point they rushed it to the moment they admitted their feelings for each other. But instead it seems like they’re just going to go for another moment of “Now I won’t tell him my feelings for him because I realize the risks of dating somebody of his status” that he somehow never realized could be a possibility all this time. And instead we’ll get another handful of chapters waiting for Jasper to figure this out and pulling the feelings out of him. Ugh
I understand your frustration, but it's a huge decision on Taisei's part. Admitting his feeling for Jasper means agreeing to be his partner, finding a way for his family/society to accept him; marrying into a sexist noble family, determining to stay in that bigoted world even if he might have to chance to go back to his old world.
Even I can't say for sure that I will choose love if I were Taisei.
Feelings can't be always resolved easily
Super cute and they did get into their relationship super quick which was funny and interesting. My only issue is the size discrepancies. Some scenes she barely comes to his shoulders and others she’s up to his chin. I’m giving grace and it doesn’t actually bother me that much but man, I just don’t know how tall anybody is lol.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Grandpa either put them on a final warning or kicked the kids and the parents out of the family for their grave crimes to the family name. Oh god I can't wait for the next chapter.
I love this story a lot, the female lead is strong, smart, and doesn't let things get in her way. But at this point this feels less like a romance story and more like a story of her life. Which is fine, but we met the Prince once and then haven't really heard from him since, and we are coming up on 40 chapters.
What I'm saying is that I'm worried this story is either A) going to take an incredibly long time and possibly be near 200 chapters and I'm selfish and don't want to wait (but will continue to do so). Or B) will rush towards the end and not give us enough time to truly feel the romance swell and them work together to better the Lombardy family and the Empire through the Prince.
I'm not saying that they need to be in love or meet right away, but just that I would like to see a bit more variation in what's happening. Right now it feels a lot like; problem that the family would cause by being dumb, Tia comes up with a plan to make it better, Grandpa is impressed by Tias ability as is one other important person, Tias plan comes to fruition and things are great and now she has one more person on her side, rinse and repeat.
Well... The title IS called "I'll be the Matriarch in this Life"....
That’s very true sir. Lmao. I love how you had to pointed out the title. LMAO. Tbh I had already spoiled myself the general gist of the story by going to spoiler thread. So it’s like whatever. You know the romance doesn’t really happened until she’s older. or at least when she could actually meet the prince freely
hmm,, consider this tho
1) The main character of this story is the female lead, 2) her main problem before she died was the fact that she wasnt able to step up to her cousins and save her family. 3) now that she has a new life she wants to save her family and her father from meeting the tragic end that her past life had in store for her.
I dont necessarily see the need for a male lead just yet, her main problem and goal as of now is to help her father business and keep her father and grandfather safe.
as for the male lead that still isnt confirmed with the chapters we see rn i think itll be 10-25 more chapters before our little FL will end up helping or saving the male lead, it might even be vise versa.
Also the fact that there is no variation given yet means that a huge part of the plot will happen soon, calm before the storm you know that saying right? and its even being hinted at us with the fact of the prince’s soon to be assassination with the newly given poison to the maid.
well imo you wouldnt be able to fully understand/grasp the story without this part of it yk? if you werent told HOW she was doing all of this, what she went through before, how she got to the point where romance COULD happen, etc. you would just have 1/3 of a story.
if you just introduce them as they did in the beginning w no backstory aside from a short retelling, it wouldnt have the same mental anguish as seeing this kid in the woods as the story progresses on its own. if u just saw a pretty pretty fem lead and a hot masc lead, youd assume it was like every other story. but by introducing her as someone who has struggled and making you aware of that, its making the story have more depth.
no idea if what i said made sense but tldr: if it didnt have those chapters as buildup this story would be dryer than your moms pussy man.
I forgot who the male lead was in this story and I can't remember if it's another character yet to be revealed or if that's a different story I was reading. So, if somebody could spoil who the ML is for me again I would greatly appreciate it.
crown prince
So there's a lot of back and forth between the group that dislike the female lead and the group that thinks she's cute and relatable. Now, besides the fact that the whole point of comment sections are so that people can give their feedback, thus whether the feedback is positive or negative it's a good thing for the author and translators (so long as the feedback isn't rude), I'm going to explain why I personally don't find the female lead that enjoyable.
Yes, she's "stanning" him super hard and fangirling at meeting her 2D love right now, and that's all fine and dandy, but one small part seems to have been forgotten and glossed over too quickly. She is not the original owner of this body.
What does this mean? Well the original owner of this body tortured Roan for years. Absolutely tortured. She hit him, picked on him, got others (even adults) to hit and pick on him, fed him POISON and was just general the worst kind of person short of killing him. In a sense, she was no better than his father and in the real world would get institutionalized or put in jail for the abuse she caused on the poor boy.
And then FL took over the body and tried to change things. Apologized for her actions, tried to be kind and fix the mistakes of the past. But she also just tramples all over his feelings constantly. She apologized, and basically immediately wanted to be best friends with him. She did mention at one point that she "doubted he would forgive her that quickly" but instead of giving him space and trying to prove her sincerity, she forced her feelings and emotions on him and made him have to deal with something new now.
Of course that worked out because there wouldn't be a story if it didn't, but IMO things resolved themselves too quickly. She said one phrase that made him happy, "I'll always be on your side" and that was all it took to get to his heart? And now he's starting to develop a crush on her, but just a year and a half ago she was still torturing him.
I am still reading this story because other than the beginning portion, I do enjoy the plot. Cliche as many areas of it are, it's still cute and I'm interested to see what they'll look like when they're older as well as how the author plans to play out the FL of the story that she jumped into and the harem of guys she had. But the current FL does seem kind of pushy and not exactly understanding of the situation she started in.
Just my two cents
I see what you're saying but you're not really doing justice to the intent behind her actions. If she didn't search him out after the first time, they wouldn't have seen each other again. She instead set up a way for them to meet consistently without putting too much pressure on him via training, where they both more or less did their own thing. I'm not sure exactly how long that went on for but I'd wager at least a couple months. I'd say it's slightly idealized in that some people wouldn't forgive her at all but not really that bad.
Tbh I get that, but let's be realistic, her actions her creepy. She's normally a woman in her 20s (which is before she entered the FL body) it is incredibly CREEPY that she is swooning over a kid 10+ years younger than her. And not to even mention the acts that the former owner of the body inflicted on the boy. The intent of the author is to make her seem sweet and cheerful, but she's just plain obsessive and creepy. No matter how much you try to put it: she isn't giving him space (she should if she wants to make amends correctly), she's normally WAYYY older than the boy, and she just seems to loose every sense of wisdom.
If the age thing is a problem I suggest you stop reading these. Besides, she fell in love with him when he was an adult. She didn't get to choose what age she got reincarnated as. And she's not lusting after him, it's not really that different from looking at kid photos of your lover and going "aww that's cute". If she gave him space they'd literally never see each other again and Raon would end up dead, pick the lesser evil. She gave him about as much space as she could under the circumstances by choosing to train in the same spot instead of say, begging her parents to bring her over to his house, where he'd be forced to interact with her.
I remember reading this awhile ago, and rereading it now has just made me realize that there’s no conflict in this story.
At literally every point that they could add conflict, they instead just solve it immediately.
Oh he’s transported to a new world and has a collar? Well we know someone who can get it off immediately.
He met these two people just a day ago? Turns out he’s the pair of one. Oh wait! Both of them are actually his pair, and both are totally ok with sharing. Also, he’s conveniently gay, so he has zero qualms about being with a male partner, let alone 2.
He has special healing skills? He can pretty much immediately regrow an arm and fix a leg of his two pairs. No need to work towards that goal, he just achieves it!
Going to meet his pairs families? Everyone immediately loves him and nobody treats him cruelly, differently, or poorly.
Oops, we need something to force a child. How about we say that he has a curse that makes it so he has to have a child in order to break it? Don’t worry, he’ll be totally fine with having a child with one of the two men he has barely known a month.
Also, if they just said that they need a core in order to conceive, how did Mintz get pregnant? He made it seem like it was an accident because his partner didn’t pull out; but if you have to purposefully put a core in, how can anybody get pregnant by accident?
I enjoyed the story as being really simple, I just think it was such a great concept that could have been carried out really interestingly, but it just fell flat. It’s like they had all these plot points that they wanted to do, but only ended up being allowed to do so many chapters, so they just made all of the problems from them be solved instantly instead.
I like your english lol