Lauvil's manga / #Royalty/Nobility(441)

Oh god, I just can't. This story is so stupid. Not only does it include my most hated trope - the one where mc reincarnates into a fat girl, then looses weight miraculously fast, and suddenly everyone notices how beautiful she is (cuz it's apparently common sense that you being chubby and being beautiful are mutually exclusive) - but the rest of the plot is so ridiculous and contradictory. Like, "I need a knight because I'm not strong enough to protect myself." - Proceeds to take out a bandit leader with one punch. And how is it that mc as someone who JUST reincarnated into this magical world, understands magic and mana better than the host she's occupying, who's lived in that world her entire life? How does that make Any sense whatsoever? There is no realism to the plot at all. Mc just reincarnated and is apparently now good at everything, the world offers her what she wants when she needs it and all the hardships that made her host kill herself at the age of 20, she can solve in one afternoon. In short: I don't feel like wasting time on this crap.

God. I don't even know where to start my complaints about this story... I certainly hope that the author intends to adress the gender equality issue they created in this world, otherwise: why the fuck make it that way in the first place? I really don't get why it's become a trope to make stories in a setting with rampant misogyny, when the author has no intention of addressing it. It's just a backdrop to make the reader sympathise with the female lead's pain and anger, but otherwise it serves no greater purpose. She doesn't change anything or inspire anyone else to change it. All she shows the reader is that it's nice to be the exception in that kind of world. But she still needs a man to "allow" her to be respected and happy. And for that to happen, you need to be different from "other girls." You need to be "special" to "deserve" being treated fairly. It's not exactly inspiring and it gets me angry every time I read the trope. Aside from that, all I'm reading here is that a woman got married to a man because her parents decided it. Because of that, she did not trust her husband and thus didn't enjoy sex with him. This caused him to be disinterested in her and so he solely focused on satisfying his own desires with no regard to hers. This only deepened the rift between them until he eventually tired of her. Then finally his interest was re-awakened when she displayed a mind of her own and a desire to take the reins to satisfy herself, before circumstances would again remove that option. But rather than allow her some freedom momentarily he thought it fair play to let her have the illusion of freedom and power, while he was actually manipulating it all behind the scenes. We're only 7 chapters in, so there is still the possibility of the webtoon averting expectations and giving the mc and the women of the story a liberating plot, but I highly doubt it. If it lives up to expectations, all we'll get is a "happy" ending for the mc, while any other female character fend for their own. And by happy ending, I mean an ending where she is still 100% controlled by her husband and societal norms, but at least now he loves her.