honestly the whole trope of the villain either attempting to murder or murdering someone is really fucking stupid. we all know that the villain is evil already so whats the point in making them a sociopath murderer as well?? plus killing off arabella did not add anything to the story whatsoever its just used as an excuse for the prince and ariadne to meet LOL. like if ur gonna kill off a character, atleast make it have some kind of point to the story (ex: in villainess returns the hourglass, mielle attempts to murder their dad and its the last point in the story to finally lock her up forever) like bruh... u couldve murdered arabella in any other way possible to make the point that shes fated to die early. now she knows that she won't have any consequences of murdering anyone she could literally just murder ariadne and it would still make sense in the story
honestly the whole trope of the villain either attempting to murder or murdering someone is really fucking stupid. we all know that the villain is evil already so whats the point in making them a sociopath murderer as well?? plus killing off arabella did not add anything to the story whatsoever its just used as an excuse for the prince and ariadne to meet LOL. like if ur gonna kill off a character, atleast make it have some kind of point to the story (ex: in villainess returns the hourglass, mielle attempts to murder their dad and its the last point in the story to finally lock her up forever) like bruh... u couldve murdered arabella in any other way possible to make the point that shes fated to die early. now she knows that she won't have any consequences of murdering anyone she could literally just murder ariadne and it would still make sense in the story