Is she smart enough to realise the mage was trying to get one over on her, or too stupid to not be insanely suspicious to the ML? Because that intro section where she apparently didn’t tell the villagers to send the knights her way, or told the guy about the tattoo made her seem like a blithering idiot. Which I could live with, tbh, I can go for an idiot protagonist lucking her way through life. But don’t then act like she’s outmanoeuvring high ranking scholars. Pick a lane.
Whilst I’m here, why are there so many of these where the title is ‘I’m the (step)mother’ but the story tells you five minutes in that the kid is actually the child of the ML’s dead sister or brother. Is this some kind of bizarre purity culture? Just give the man a dead wife. Especially since the dead sister ends up functioning in exactly the same way a dead wife would.
Is she smart enough to realise the mage was trying to get one over on her, or too stupid to not be insanely suspicious to the ML? Because that intro section where she apparently didn’t tell the villagers to send the knights her way, or told the guy about the tattoo made her seem like a blithering idiot. Which I could live with, tbh, I can go for an idiot protagonist lucking her way through life. But don’t then act like she’s outmanoeuvring high ranking scholars. Pick a lane.
Whilst I’m here, why are there so many of these where the title is ‘I’m the (step)mother’ but the story tells you five minutes in that the kid is actually the child of the ML’s dead sister or brother. Is this some kind of bizarre purity culture? Just give the man a dead wife. Especially since the dead sister ends up functioning in exactly the same way a dead wife would.