Mimibu's manga / #strong female lead(53)

The first 2/3rds of this are really good. But then it becomes a never ending sequence of them facing one hidden enemy after another. But it's not one fight at a time; they'll start one fight then have to resolve some other fight before they get back to the larger fight and each of the smaller fights keep morphing with more plot twists. Like, it's so many concentric fights that none of the big reveals have much impact anymore. There are at least five "but, wait, there's more!" developments in this fighting arch. And that's before they introduce the zombies. Overall, I find that it gets less fun to read.

https://toonkor.gg/그녀가-공작저로-가야-했던-사정 Girl is put into a novel she has read. She is a side character (Raeliana) that dies at the beginning. So she is trying to survive. She makes a fake-fiance contract with the King's younger brother Duke Noah Wynknight by leveraging knowledge she had from having read the novel, pretty much exchanging her silence for protection from the guy she had been engaged to (who killed her in the novel). Anyway, they collaborate. They genuinely like each other. Raeliana gains the favor of many people: Her guard Adam(a skilled swordsman feared by many because he is a "savage" from the north. But he's really just a quiet teenager who likes sweets); The leader of the of the presiding religious group (he looks like a young boy but is 150 and admires her ability to transcribe and speak scholarly languages. He wants her to be his pupil. He also insists she call him Grandpa and is the only one in this world who she has confided her true circumstances to); and the Captain of the Royal guard, (who met her without knowing her identity and became enamoured. He has been told by her that her engagement will end because her fiance will end up with someone else. So he is holding out hope that she will choose him after the engagement ends). Raeliana thinks Noah is destined to be with the heroine of the novel, Beatrice, so Raeliana has been trying to not fall for him and has been putting off his advances. But Beatrice seams to have fishy shit going on and seems to even be pulling strings behind the female villain, Vivian. In all, it is fairly evident that Beatrice dabbles in black magic and is somehow behind Raeliana's death (even this was not revealed whatsoever in the novel Raeliana read). Beatrice appears to still be trying to kill Raeliana before Beatrice herself makes her appearance into Noah's life. Not entirely sure what her specific goals are. Not quite as good as some of the other shoujo period pieces I have liked. But still interesting.

SPOILER . . . . . . . . Her father saves her life, loses consciousness, and forgets her at end of first season. It seems that with no memories of her he may go back to hating her for being the apparent cause of her mother's death.

https://online.ichijinsha.co.jp/zerosum/comic/niwaka