for the middle part; it's because she herself, got all of the memories of the princess and I think she kind of 'lived through the real novel' and experienced it, so maybe that's why, and other than that, you were completely right (for the first part), the way they moved so quick; getting PTSD from just a glance from the one who abused "her". other than that the art is totally amazing and I kinda do understand where the crown prince is coming from, because she changed and so, when she changed the way she behaved around him he changed the way he behaved around her. And so, I do think this low-key deserves the rating but some part of me also thinks you're completely right
Ok so I’ve got a few words to say to this manwha. Its very pretty and if u like it, that’s completely valid - it’s an interesting read if u ignore these issues. Please don’t get offended - my critics are not a personal attack.
Okie dokes let’s get crackin
Firstly. The characterization is trash - the motivations are all over the place (especially for the princess, smtimes I wonder if she’s really on the prince’s side cuz she seems like she really wants to usurp his power), the personalities are very basic and tropey (nothing wrong with cliches and tropes but it’s very boring unless there’s some sort of expectation subversion), and overall everyone but the princess feels stupid which ruins the suspension of disbelief for me - the prince is irrational a no way smart like the OG story claims, every “villain” is incredibly basic and shallow (for the silver haired duke, he just appeared so I can’t be certain abt him). Specifically looking at the princess: there was no buildup to the reincarnated person’s character/personality. She’s an office worker, there should be no reason why she’s so cunning especially if she was just used in the past. Now, I’m not saying the office environment there is cutthroat and she MIGHTVE been able to gain some for thought in TERMS of this office environment, but no where NEAR where she stands now. It’s nothing less than illogical and if it was built up better it wouldn’t be so jarring from the early chapter exposition. Something that also bothers me: she constantly refers to herself as if she never reincarnated into a NEW body but rather traveled back in time. There’s no “identity finding”, she just assumes the princess’s identity and starts being cunning. And like I mentioned earlier it was something that came out of nowhere - we barely know anything abt the Reincarnated’s background but like I mentioned it’s illogical for her considering what we know. She also has the trauma and anxiety the princess has later on in her life: the reincarnation shouldn’t be so reactive to the stalker/future abuser. U can pin it on saying shes scared of the future possibilities, but she’s literally experiencing PTSD as if she’s lived through the abuse herself (yet another point in time where they should’ve made her travel back in time). The placement of the PTSD also makes me make me raise an eyebrow - it’s very convenient for the plot and the ““”relationship””” with Raphael to grow and I doubt it’ll be properly explored in any other way ( I could say the same thing for her being “introspective”, IE when she points out her brother is just a sad lonely kid, knows what Vera wants, what the king wants, etc.) The other characters are very basic - Raphael should be more on guard with this girl who’s been abusing her power and harassing him/others for MONTHS IF NOT YEARS, but instead he’s immediately enamored with her when she switches up her act(Stockholm syndrome lOL). Rezel is p decently done, but he’s not 100% there. There are times where the story mentions things in the OG princess’s past/memories that appear out of nowhere?? The prince and the princess were once very close and after two nice things, he considers her his light??? Lmfao?? Are we gonna pretend he didn’t want to use her and sell her off?? Also are we not gonna delve into the fact he poisoned her?? WOULDNT he feel a teensy bit bad abt it considering she’s so important to him now?? The emperor should be harder to please since he hates both his children - even if there’s change, he’d be more strict rather than ditsy and instantly believing that she’s a changed person. Dialogue itself is cringy at times but it’s passable (my question is: why tf r all the characters stating the most obvious shit? Like everything is repeated when it could be concluded from simply looking at their actions - kind of a spit on the audience’s intelligence :/). The plot itself feels kinda half assed, there is practically no foreshadowing (no clear foreshadowing at least it’s always very vague, as if the author thought they could get away with bsing it), and again, the shitty characterization is really.... annoying. The princess knows shit that no one else knows and u could pass it off as saying it was probably mentioned in the story but there are tons of times where she doesn’t even refer to her new life as “from a different plot” - if there was foreshadowing to her actions, it’d be understandable but everything she does is explained AFTER she does her “cunning” thing. That’s just bad story structure and writing.
That’s my spiel, I read this all in one go, excited by the rating, but it’s just really shitty. Doesn’t deserve the 9.6 (╬￣皿￣)凸