Meridian's manga / #Royalty(45)

Pretty interesting and unique. A good amount of detail went into our MC's passion, and it's definitely constantly important for the story. It combines well with the romance, both are pretty evenly matched in terms of time given. Also, what's great is that things don't always work. Some teas have negative connotations because of what's popular in society, some only work for specific groups of people, a totally normal name becomes risque and harms sales. Interesting and super fluffy, no angst and misunderstandings here! Just tea!

Amazing main couple, great communication and initiative from our MC. One misunderstanding at the very end feels like it was just thrown in there so it wasn't perfectly smooth sailing, which is understandable but it didn't fit very well and was slighly out of character for them. BUT, great premise, challenging the saintess but staying several steps ahead of her. MC goes with the flow and just does what feels right instead of overthinking things and I love it.

Love the yandere style ML, some points off for a bunch of misunderstandings that should've been easy to resolve but otherwise nice.

First chapters are a little frustrating because of how naive the MC is, but it smooths itself out and gets super cute after the beginning (although annoying it does set up her character well for later). The art is gorgeous and the main relationship is teasing and adorable. Our MC also doesn't wait for anything, if she feels something she acts on it, if she wants it she at least tries her best.

For something that's in the title, she barely uses her phone. It gets some action, a few inventions, but feels massively underplayed in the story compared to what it could be. Also, romance is a subplot that tries to act like more than it is. It's cute but just feels really left in the background. It's more of a historical drama revenge plot, which for that was pretty ok. Not amazing but not terrible. The relationships with the other guys were super cute, it would've been a majorly redeeming aspect if it wasn't only shown in a few chapters.

There's a lot of things to like about this one, the family members are adorable, MC's powers are super interesting and cute, the ending was super satisfying. Even with all that, I can't get over how much I don't like the MC herself. She's presented as having these genius level magic powers that make her incredibly strong, but it rarely comes up until the end. Most of the time she's throwing herself head first into trouble and then crying as a damsel in distress until her family can come save her. For most of the story instead of her helping it would've saved everyone time and trouble if she had just stayed home. Yeah, she's a kid with trauma. That doesn't make it any better to read her shout that she's gonna be helpful for once and end up just sitting somewhere crying.

Adorable relationship between the ML and MC, and without a bunch of extra misunderstandings (though there were a couple) it progressed at a pretty fast pace, which was refreshing. It was just a really feel-good, interesting read. The ending was slightly anticlimactic but I also understand why it happened that way considering this is a zero-angst kind of read. Great for relaxing and enjoying some cuteness!