i'm reading the novel but i haven't finished yet and i just wanna say i really don't like jieun but i can empathize with her though she's still a bitch. she was hated by the entire empire, the person she relied on (duke) ended up being the person who betrayed her, and then her child got killed as well. toppled up with the unending anxiety of being transported into a world without anything she ever knew existed, she decides to act on her emotions instead of stopping to think. that could also be her mental age acting up (she was 16? i think? or younger?) but in all honesty, i think she's just trying to find someone to blame for her misfortunes. her main goal is to get back on the duke but she also despises the side people (i.e. ruve and tia) just because she can. she's both frustrated and traumatized, in search of something to calm her down. it just so happens that hate and revenge has always been good method to distract people from rational behavior.
I guess that does make sense. I was just about to question why she hates Ruve and Tia too but I guess she can also just do it for no reason. I mean, Ruve and Tia are also victims of the duke so it didn’t make sense for her to antagonize them but oh well. We can agree that she’s still a bitch
she hates ruve for comparing her to tia and revoking his love for her. honestly, her jealousy is understandable but to hate him because of romantic crap is so hypocritical of her since she was only manipulating him with empty words of love.
she also hates tia because (1) tia was a VERY different person in the previous timeline; she was cold with a total bitch face. because of that jieun felt tia always internally judged her for being an incapable empress, and the fact that tia is younger than her hurt her pride as well. (2) she hated how, because of tia's death, she realized how useless her efforts were (in surviving in the empire) because in the end tia was everything she couldn't be. when i said she "hated them just because she can" i meant she had her reasons but they were so ridiculous i didn't want to bother lol
ohhh lol i understand
I don’t really understand Jieun. She should’ve just stayed where she belonged instead of coming to this world again. Getting a second chance to live an ordinary life was already more than what Tia was able to hope for. Why does she feel the need to stir up problems for the people in this world. She didn’t even suffer that much in the end like the prince basically just stopped spoiling her so she could’ve moved on This bitch literally just wants attention.
Anyway I’m glad that this debate is now being brought up in the manhwa. I need all the information and the characters’ perspective to decide on what my opinion is. I never read the novel but I did read spoilers and it’s not really reliable because people can be biased when it comes to their wording of what actually happened.