Lauvil's manga / #Royalty/Nobility(447)

Restart with official TS. I don't know who the ML is, yet, or if there even is one or if it's going to stay a reverse harem. Though I prefer monogamous relationships, I'm fine with this. I like the MC. She's strong willed, smart and compassionate. However, she does rely on her newfound money quite a lot. It's understandable, but I hope she learns to deal with things in other ways too. The trope that the FL of the novel our MC reincarnated into, is actually an egocentric bitch, that's purposefully stringing several guys along has been seen before. Several times. That part, irks me. Not only does it make all the ML's seem like substanceless dolls with no intelligence or personality, that their romantic feelings can be swayed by something so small as the MC acting like a decent human being. But it's also such a cheap and lazy way, to make the MC stand out and highlight her good points. Like, the concept a story with an MC and the antagonist villainess that stands in the way of her love, had gotten old. Then came the concept of the MC reincarnating into the body of a story's villainess, but it really didn't change anything. All it did was giving the illusion that the roles had reversed, when really it was the same old concept, repackaged. I guess it's easily digestible because it's a familiar format, but it bugs me that these types of stories insists on pitting women against each other...

Sierra was a child hated by her mother and unwanted by her father. At a ball, she then met the illegitimate child of the emperor, Claude. Both being alienated by their parents, they instead found solace in each other. At least until Sierra is promised to the crown prince. To make a final good memory with her lover, the two of them spend the night together, resulting in a pregnancy that Sierra ends out of fear. Not long after, Claude ensues a rebellion, killing the emperor and first prince, as well as Sierra's father and all his employees (wtf), in order to be with her. However the death of her nanny and all the servants that raised her, scarred and terrified Sierra and she renounces her lover's deeds. As a result, he kills himself out of heartbreak. In that moment, Sierra wishes that time would reverse so she could make a different choice, and it magically does. This time, she takes her unborn daughter and runs away, leaving Claude and everyone else behind, before anything can go wrong. I'm like: wut. The whole backstory seems to stupid. It seems that if Claude had just left Sierra's father's servants alone, everything would've been fine and they could've been happy together. Or, at least it's not explicitly stated that that would not be the case. In the first place: why kill the servants? They didn't do anything wrong, other than work for the wrong person. Like, wtf Claude. That's just cold, ruthless and unnecessary. I also don't understand why Sierra needed to run away from him. It makes sense to run from everything else, but she could've been honest with him at least. He answered that he didn't want any kids, when she asked, but that's such a vague reason to just abandon him without a word or explanation. She could've just said: "Well, I do want them. Think you could be persuaded for my sake?" or "If I'm pregnant after our night together, I'm not going to abort. Instead I'll run away and raise the child far from the nobility. Would you want to come with or should I leave without you?" Like, anything. A tiny amount of communication could've gone such a long way. But ofc, without all the drama and misunderstand, we would've been left without a story, Ig...

This is a nope for me. The ML is condescending and the FL is too hung up on a jackass who doesn't love her back. I hoped it would be femdom, since her husband cheated and went to a BDSM club to satisfy masochistic tendencies. But for some reason he's the Dom in their relationship, which makes ZERO sense.