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Can someone tell me whether Helena dies at the end or not? I actually like her character so it'd kinda suck if she does. Anyone?

I feel like he fell for her too fast, or too intensely.

Judith definitely won't be simping for the bastard who sent an assassin after her 10 y.o nephew. The manga better not try and make him the 2nd ML or add some of those ridiculous flirting scenes b/w him and Judith because that'd be unnecessary fanservice from a character tryna kill a child, so if Judith was even the slightest bit charmed it'd feel hella cheap.

Seems to be becoming a bit too pro-aristocracy. I know that the villainess tropes are set in the era of Western nobility (why not Asian, idk) but this is a bit overdone at this point. Shame, I really liked the first 2/3 volumes.

This was definitely a guilty pleasure read, a kind of junk food you eat once in a week or something. I certainly enjoyed it but boy were those last few chapters pseudo-deep. Gave me r/im14andthisisdeep vibes (≧∀≦)

And the teacher keeps molesting the big bro like?? Dude stop. It's so weird how they're (the mangaka) writing characters so maturely at one point, then regressing the ML to being a creep and reinforcing the toxic stereotype held by homophobes that all gay men come onto straight guys. C'mon, what is the double standard? They even try to weirdly justify it by saying that the guy was drunk too though he clearly had enough sobriety to say that the big bro yelling would attract attention and lowkey threaten him.
Big Bro is the real mvp.

Anyone wanna spoil me? I'm welcoming them. Especially spoilers about who all were killed.

I don't want the nice friends to die! The asshole ones can, but the ones who never bothered em should make it out alive.

Why does Kartena look exactly like me here, just with a bob?(≧∀≦)
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/beware_of_the_villainess/uu/br_chapter-15997/pg-22/

Was an interesting chapter because of the two value systems clashing. I'm gonna try and lay out both sides of the argument for myself and anyone else interested. Mind these opinions are all mine and only based off of the current 25 chapters we've gotten and nothing else.
Judith: Her side is the more tricky one. Like most people she wouldn't like to hear someone gossiping about her, and like a few of us, would want to be liked, or at least, tolerated by most people if not all. Having some blatantly not like or dislike you can be a difficult pill to swallow even though it is a very obvious fact that no one in this world was, is, or will ever be liked by everyone in existence. It's not possible and that's fine, but it isn't to accept especially if faced with blatant dislike, hostility and the like. People can be self conscious so it feels nice to have people like you, whether that be due to narcissism or some complex. Not to mention, Judith likely doesn't want to feel uncomfortable in her living quarters if her maids will talk about her body and call her a whore. In addition, since her position in the house is so tentative, Luca's precarious and as the entire family is under scrutiny as nobles, a certain level of decorum must be kept which is seemingly missing between her, the widow of the house's late heir, and Ruediger, her brother in law. They can interpreted to be overtly familiar with each other, and we the readers know that they are due to their mutual affection and reaction. It can be unfair but these are also nobles with immense privilege so a certain level of duty must be upheld if they're to rule over a group of people eventually - the noblesse oblige. Judith to a degree understands and since she wants Luca to excel and herself to survive, is trying to maneuver the unfamiliar political landscape of the nobles as best as she can. It is unhealthy to care too much about other people's opinions, but if you're living in a society (and in Judith's case living as a privileged noble with her noblesse oblige) then you can't disregard what other people think entirely. It doesn't work like that. People need to reach out and connect with each other in order to solve misunderstandings and conflicts, and live as a society. She does need to stop allowing her self worth to be influenced by malicious rumours, but she can't just pretend to be entirely removed from the nobility and what that means for her position either, which she doesn't but that is what Ruediger doesn't get.
Ruediger: His side is the more obvious one. It makes sense from his side of the argument to not put so much weight on the opinions and words of others that you start questioning your very self, and in a classist society like this one, nobles likely wouldn't (shouldn't according to the nobles I bet) be easily swayed by the commoners. His is a very simple philosophy of karma in the sense that those who do bad will eventually be taken care of by the law or justice or something, so he doesn't allow himself to be fazed by public perception and simply dismissed those he deems untoward. At the same time however, there's a certain privilege associated with not caring about what others think, and mind, I don't mean not letting others ruin your vibes, but rather having enough power to simply squish all those who you cross you. His position as the heir may be tumultuous, but Ruediger is still a very powerful man who despite his struggles in life was scarce in need of food, shelter, protection and the very basest needs. His response to Judith's worries was simply to fire all the maids, maybe oblivious, maybe feeling righteous about all that would follow from unemployment to future job opportunities being shelved for those fired for - and this may sound a tad bit cruel on my part - gossip that was undoubtedly malicious and something unacceptable in that society, but had just begun and had very little consequence. Were their remarks cruel and unprofessional? Yes. Would it in a normal environment make them lose their jobs? Most likely. Did it still reveal quite a bit about Ruediger, so convinced with his privileged notions of justice that he could afford to fire maids without even a warning. Yes. It was an extreme response, comedic but also rather revealing of the kind of person he is, perhaps believing that people lack nuance, privileged, and someone capable of simply removing the fungus encroaching the walls due to status, power, and money, someone unconcerned with public reception because his livelihood and those he cared about would still be guaranteed, and so unlike Judith who lacked power in this scenario and all those maids working in the Duchy. Maybe the maid scenario is a bit unfair as the maids before had also similarly shown unprofessionalism by propositioning him but I still found his reactions to a bit extreme. With regards to Judith, no reader would begrudge him falling for her because we - and he - know the truth about Judith being Luca's aunt and not his mom, ergo not Jonas' widow. It doesn't make sense for them to care so much about the propriety since thus far they are just friends, and seemingly society has no say in their relationship so the opinions of others don't matter, but this is a fictional world with a classist system that nobles often exploit, and so they need to also do things to appease public sentiment. Ruediger saying that public opinion doesn't matter is unfair because he wouldn't have quite a few of his accommodations if he wasn't born who he was with a silver spoon in their mouth. So, while I do recognize some of his valid points, I'm also, like Judith, criticizing the unknowing privilege he often displays.
Both sides had interesting arguments and a nuanced value system with believable reasons so I'm interested to see how these two inherently different people will learn from each other, compromise and eventually fall in love.(๑•ㅂ•)و✧