I may not have been in abusive relationship or marriage, but from what I can tell about abusive situations, I can understand why Lucy at first said no to both punishment and divorce of her husband. She most likely said that as she still feels the love he had when times were good but after experiencing it from a different perspective, she didn't have the heart to continue with her marriage and finally asked for a divorce by literally one of the most powerful people in the Empire who has great connections.
She deserves someone like Joseph who is pure hearted and the type of man to be a loving husband for Lucy.
This is what happens after years of abuse, the girl would become suicidal but hides it very well until she can't take no more. Even having both men confused (male lead) and delusional (asshole ex-fiance) on why she kept the hairpin in the first place. It was a symbol of love but now to her, a symbol of her lover killing her. Now she doesn't need it anymore after confirming the male lead wants to protect her after now seeing the full extent of her pain which he had underestimated at first and regretted how he initially felt about the hairpin's significance which is understandable as well.
I seriously think there is something wrong with the readers ... The current Christina isn't dumb, this isn't a novel she transmigrated into so she is confused on who to truly trust and who to honestly believe in. She is only going off based on the actions the og Christina has done and how others feel about the old her. If anything, she is naive and easy to manipulate because of being woken up into a new world she knows NOTHING about. How would any of you feel if you were thrown into a world you know nothing about? No novel to see the future? No otome game to see how the game ends? Nothing... I would be lost on who to trust and believe in no matter if they are friendly with me or not. Manipulation would be easy to do on someone like Christina.
If you guilt-trip me into something that's already a sore spot, I will react (miserably dumb) on the spot because I need 2-3 business days to figure out sub-text and my emotions.
Add to that the inability to say no just because and you got a recipe for "that wasn't your brightest moment, huh"
This is by far the most enjoyable thing I have ever read on this site. Both FL and ML are just so cute together. The pacing may not be everyone's cup of tea but it just works out for the better.
ML knows FL is hiding a crucial detail of how she knows certain things, but isn't pushing her to speak about it. He is willing to wait until she is ready to him and she knows she will have to at some point. Which, I can see he would feel the anger towards those who have wronged her in her past life and will most likely want to start by killing the Viscount off officially. Perhaps cut ties with FL's family and make them no longer of the Count's support.
These two are the greenest flags for each other.
I love how our FL realizes that in the past, she fell for the ML because he was the only one who was kind to her. Now in this life, she can protect him from his wrongful murder instead of just using him for her own benefit like most FLs in her position would do. She is doing this out of love for herself and him. She is literally done with being weak and wants to stand on her own feet but most likely appreciates that the ML is someone to lean on if dire situation calls for it.
If you cover up half of Sven's face towards the end of Ch 90, it looks like two different emotions shown. One side is glaring and cold while the other is enjoying the situation and smiling about it.
reminds me of the scene where marshall would cover upper half of the captain's face. "seems like a nice guy...." then covers the the bottom half "WANTS TO MURDER YOU!" from the show How I met your mother series.
Exactly!
If this is a plot where the FL is originally from the world they transmigrated or reincarnated into, then I would be very happy as these types of back stories of how they ended up in the Modern world to only go back to their original place fascinates me.
To me, what it sounds like is that his Bestial instincts is taking claim that Sae is his mate, that is why her scent is so sweet to him. The blood was too much for him to handle at once plus with his protective instincts coming into play, he wasn't stable for a moment.
Going off from the comments, if it really was the ex-fiance that killed her family (which how when those two were together? Maybe it was an inside job), then I can see this is the Duke's way of trying to keep the FL safe from the ex but he is going on about it the wrong way, drastically wrong.
You people may find this icky, the ML didn't have much of a choice and he wanted to keep her alive. Marrying her was the best he could do to keep her safe. He did treat her as a child and wasn't planning on keeping her forever but that changed when had her coming of age, so she is now considered an adult at the age of 15, two years passed and she is now 17.
In technicality, this is no longer a minor married to an adult.
He didn't groom her, he took care of her and started seeing her as a woman later on.
I don't remember if this Duke has any intentions of marrying and giving Leo a mother figure, but if anyone, that Empress may as well be the best candidate, she is gorgeous!
He has no intentions but the MC wants to get him with the FL he was supposed to end up with in the story.
The empress has her own lover but because of politics her father married her off to the emperor instead and left her lover