I'm at 14 not 17, mb
Yes, she’s not exactly a good person. She’s pety but so what? She’s not a bad person either, she’s just standing up for herself.
She’s even showing her evil little brother consideration since he’s a kid. But a behaviour-less brat like him deserves to be smacked to be taught a lesson.
The mother is the true villain in this story then comes the father that did nothing.
As for the little sister, she looks too much like the mom so she might be their bio sis and it’s a translation error.
MC doesn’t HAVE to be nice to the little sister, the sister is innocent don’t get me wrong and would be great to have some relationship with her. But MC is too wounded by family, and expecting her to treat the kid with love and affection is stretching it. Not saying to treat her badly of course but staying neutral is an option.
My heart hurts for the MC, I kept insutling The mother, the mother, the mother and the mother then the father, as for the brat,just imagined myself smacking him until he apologises and learns better.
I am upset for MC so I might’ve gone off on a tangent
Nah, she’s just full of resentment and it all makes sense for her to finally put herself first. I thought it was too much in the begining because her life this time around isn’t as bad as her previous life, but as the story progresses, I actually understood where she was coming from. She’s not trying to kill anybody, she’s just no longer lowering herself and dimming her own light. I could go as far as to say that she has a superiority complex, but she’s really good at what she does so it makes sense. In the universe she’s in now, the only way to do that is by basically becoming the heir through underhanded means. I’m just curious as to when her father might accept the idea that his daughter could lead the family. The whole gender swap thing pissed her off only because it meant she had less rights than her brat if a brother by being a woman. I’m also curious to know what her relationship with her adopted sister will be like.
Yeah I almost dropped it too but the scene where she helped him out of sword lessons and he cried with happiness convinced me to persevere. Right or wrong, she still worded things in a super childish way whenever thinking about her bro or whenever arguing with him (I had expected much more adult-like emotions, responses and reactions from her at least during those arguments) which was getting super annoying. I was almost about to drop it too, but that scene convinced me to give her a chance, and so far she hasn't disappointed (at least, she's mature when dealing with the non-bro related stuff).
I think she holds a lore more resentment towards him mostly because of her past life, but then finding out her brother was essentially allowed to throw harmful magic at her without her being allowed to defend herself made me not care anymore about how childish she was with him.
I know, but that was the mother's fault, mainly. But since she was perfectly aware her bro was just a kid and besides he was suffering because of the situation too too, I would have first tried to properly reason with the kid at least once, wisening him up to the fact that their parents' educational system of "you the swordsman, me the flower vase" was outdated and making them BOTH miserable (even without throwing the whole "heir thing" into it, since it was merely a tradition, but not an unavoidable obligation, that dictated the family heir had to be a swordsman and not a mage, etc etc), and from there, recruited the kid's help in toppling that absurd system through CONSTANT REBELLION (they could use the example of the late empress as moral background to throw in their father's face, for eff sake). Then if reason doesn't work, implement the current method (but as a last resort, not the first option).
Yeah but she only recently remembered who she was in the past. So before she could remember those details, all she was, was the understanding daughter who bottled up her feelings. Plus she didn’t find fault with her mother’s mindset because she only knew their world to have the correct mindset (with her being a flower in a vase idea). So while she just regained past memories, it makes sense for her not to have room for grace or compassion because she spent the better part of her life just enduring it. Her resentment and childish behavir feels like the most natural thing I’ve seen considering all we know now.
Exactly. That's why I endured even though I found it all so annoying. The fact that she's finally giving the kid a chance showed she was finally outgrowing the harmful sides of her mindset (I am all for less hating and more practical discliplining, like older sister Regina does with her bro Theor in in "Second Life of a Trash Princess": she has a special baseball bat-like thing called "The Club of Love and Justice" made, to "lovingly" discipline her obnoxious crown prince of a lil brother **cough* beat him up in the butt * cough** every time he behaves in a manner improperly). https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/second_life_of_a_trash_princess/uu/br_chapter-112648/pg-1/
Just want to say, I didn't really MEAN to imply she was actually a villain or anything, second I'm not dropping this, just wanted to pause where I was, partially because I really like bingeing stuff. Third, it's good to know she starts being a lil nicer to the brother.
Yeah, the mothers the biggest issue, like honestly I hope mc DOES end up the heir, in most Female Lead games the mc ends up marrying into another household, would LOVE for a suitor to instead marry into hers for once. Now, I'm gonna pick up from where I'd left off, and catch up to the latest chapter. (=・ω・=)
Auto corrected things to games for some reason... ihml
It works out well in this story since the love interest seems to be the second Prince. Becoming a Duke would be nice for him.
If I have a brother and father like that I'll also want to destroy them and more lol but welp they did not really did anything evil or anything so I'll just would probably want to take over everything right under there noses
She's not their little sister
Not biologically, but she will be once she’s adopted.
Okay so, like... this is good, but... am I the only one who feels like shes a bit evil? Not like super or anything, but the way she talks makes me think she wants to like destroy her younger brother, or similar such stuff...
Its still a really good read, and a pretty good example of generational trauma/abuse/neglect... but I cant help thinking that there's a rosy-er path than the one she decided to forge ahead on... idk... I just really fo hope she ends up being a really good older sister to the adopted kid.(ps the translation of them talking about their mother is sometimes grammatically wrong, since they share a mother... sometimes mc refers to Younger brothers mother as "your mother" BUT if that isnt an error, it sorta is another example of a really good detail i guess... because she WOULD probably feel a disconnect due to the way she was treated vs how the brother was... so the wall between her mother and "his mother" has a possibility of actually being realistic.)