i got long spoilers for yall (its incomplete but hear me out)

hi yall i know a lot of you are looking for the novel, but some time ago, a lot of the novels were taken down. so i decided to try my best to deliver yall the major parts of the story as to how i remember it. please bear with me because i only got to read it once from start to finish so i haven't really imprinted it into memory, but i more or less got to the ending (i think ?)

so i'll narrate this in a way that yall got the (what i deemed to be) important parts but just enough that you still look forward to it.

i know this is such a hassle and i really wanted to finish this tonight but the story was much longer than i thought it was anf i underestimated my own memory, so i decided to cut it here. i promise to post the 2nd part within 12 hours of this post.

take note that the names i use here may possibly vary from what was used in the manhwa, but i followed the names used in the translation i read, but it doesn't differ too much from other variations so i hopr you try to understand the naming situation!

after this scene (i think) is when derrick gives penelope the bracelet he bought for her the first time she went out to buy eclise. i think she met up with vinter for business and she was walking around the street when he found her. this scene was actually quite heart warming ?? nothing major really happened, but i just happened to remember this because derrick was being a tsundere that he threw the bracelet on the ground because she wouldn't accept it (if my memory is right)

penelope also gave the duke an item (i forgot what kind sorry but i think it was definitely an accessory), and it was enchanted with protection. it's not important for now but it saves his life in the near end. anyway, the duke was so happy he boasted the item to his sons and well, yeah, they got salty because them dipshits got none.

so skipping to the competition, boi when i tell you this was when i realized the prince was The One, i seriously mean it. i know we all have bad impressions of him after That One Scene, but i swear my life that it was already his worst scene. ok so major event here: they were attacked by assassins (i forgot who sent then) during the hunt, the crown prince as well, he gets poisoned, they kill assassins, she tries her best to treat him, she realizes she had powers (i'll talk about this later), penelope wins the hunting competition, and she gets the prize money. the money she gets from the competition is also the money she gets in her "in-game" system.

events after this were mainly focused on raising eclise's affection meter (like taking him out to town, punishing every knight who bullied him, bought him all kinda of stuff, all that stuff), completing missions with callisto (prince) or meeting up with vinter for business. in one of the missions with callisto, they were in an island and she saw this one woman who was looking at her and she was kinda suspicious. at this point of thr story, penelope was also quite rich on her own because a mines were given to her by the duke and the crown prince (i think they were emeralds and diamonds respectively)

i'll call penelope as penny from here on because i'm getting tired of typing her whole name it's too long for me.

before i forget, once a character's affection level rises to a certain number, penny won't see the characters' affection meter anymore. well, she can, but she has to pay a ridiculously incrementing high in game system money to see it.

i know the paragraphs above aren't that entertaining but congrats sisums i'm skipping to the fun part: yvonne's return

ayt listen up, before i get into this, i would like to apologize to eclise's fans out there, that man is shiT (and trust me i was devastated when i found out), i felt bad for him towards his end (yes you read that right he died). i mentioned earlier that a part of the manhwa was just penelope raising eclise's affection meter and it was really rising at a dangerous rate and at this point, he wad already obssessed with her. in contrast to what was actually supposed to happen, eclise brought yvonne back to the duchy (it should have been vinter but he knew smth wasn't right with yvonne so he hesitated) for the main reason that if penny had been kicked out, she would be forced to rely solely on him. he also betrayed a certain group of people, they were slaves escaping the country and he was in on the plan, but he exposed the to gain recognition.

long story short: eclise betrayed penny, so she just goes blank. like, a really blank face where she didn't care about anything anymore. the duke sees this and immediately orders his men to lock up eclise. at first, she doesn't understand why he does this, but he tells her about her blank face and she made that face before. he was right to do this, og penny actually died from this state, its why the new penny's soul was brought in to inhabit her body.

eclise breaks out of prison a few times to see penny but our girl just refuses to take him back because of the betrayal, but he continues to beg. in conclusion: eclise was entirely obssessed with her but she abandons him at this point of the story, and she reminds him of it again at a later time.

so yvonne is back in the castle, nothing wrong with her yet, just your usual "hu hu i think my sister hates me hu hu i just wanna be close to her" kind of person. she visits penny in her greenhouse and this bitch trips on her own, and rennald sees this and assumes that penny pushed her. so yeah, shit hits the fan, painful words were thrown again (from penny's side of course) and she really tells rennald how disappointed she is with him and all that. it's a really intense scene, so look forward to it! of course, he again tries to apologize like the attic scene, but she just wouldn't have any of his shit.

moving on, days before penny until moments exactly before her party, she tries to convince the duke to cancel it because of yvonne's return, but he refused saying they could celebrate her after her party and that he wanted to give her the best party. she was also starting to slowly distance herself ftom the duke (yall my heart really hurt for this one) and she starts calling him by this title instead of "father". he apologizes for the way he raised her, he admitted that he wasn't a good father to her or his sons, but he really did love her and didn't consider as a replacement for yvonne, which was genuinely true. he let her get away with a lot of things, when he gave her crossbow back, it was enchanted with a spell that makes you forget who shot you so if she decides to shoot another noble, the duke is literally saying go ahead just don't get caught, he gave her large amounts of money when she wanted them because jewelry made her happy, and the list goes on. he might not have been the best, but he definitely loved penny.

yvonne wasn't allowed to attend penelope's party because her existence had to be announced and if she was introduced during penny's party, then all attention would shift to yvonne and they will be reminded that penny was a fake daughter. but idk, that shit didn't transmit to derrick's dumbass fucking brain so he brings her along. if its not obvious, i really hate this guy, which is ironic because he was my fave when i started this novel. but i also don't blame a lot of the characters who were following yvonne's plan because as i said earlier, smth's wrong with her.

penny actually repeatedly rejects callisto (i was feeling rlly bad for him tbh) up to this point because she believed that she would naturally lose him to yvonne and since she was about to die anyway, she commits suicide at her own party.