Fatima, honey, I can't even hate you because you are so far off the mark you ain't even a threat, sweetheart. Every single position you want is already filled to capacity. Sienna is way out of your league. Just accept and move on, girl.
I wish people stopped pointing things from the novel, since the manhwa seems to be taking a different approach anyways (like people kept saying that the knight was the one to kill Shuli, but in here he obviously just arrived after she was dead). And all the people complaining about Elias's behavior too, and that particular topic hasn't even been mentioned. If the manhwa is going to deviate from the novel and I'm following the manhwa then this is the story I'm following. It's creating so much confusion in here that it's getting ridiculous.
THANK YOU! People complain so much about Lucia being a weak FL and don't realize that the theme of this story is about her mental strength not her agency as a character. What agency can she have when she lived almost her entire past life secluded, first as a princess and then as an abused wife? She doesn't have any physical skills or enhanced capabilities such as magic, and she lives in a setting in which a lone young woman has very limited possibilities. She literally has no support system whatsoever. I want anyone to point out to me another manga in which the "strong" MC has as little support as Lucia and still manages to successfully make a decision and carry it through, while keeping a core of her own identity and not losing herself.
- Abandoned Empress: Tia has the unconditional support of her father and powerful house.
- Who made me a Princess: Athy has magic and modern knowledge and mindset.
- Monster Duchess: Leslie has powerful magic
- Adonis: Iana is a genius swordwoman and has magic
- Raeliana: Raeliana has the support of her rich house plus modern knowledge and mindset.
- Doctor Elise: Elise has the support of his noble house and family plus modern mindset and genius knowledge.
- I'm a Child of this House: Estelle has the support of her noble house plus she has lost magic and is respected in society.
- Light and Shadow: Edna had genius swordmanship and extensive knowledge of her time as a man.
I could go on and on. I think the only other girl that comes to mind that was as defenseless as Lucia at the beginning of her story is Beatrice, (and I can't remember whether she was a modern reincarnator or not) and she took the same approach. Mind over matter, try to make the best of a bad situation. Not every female lead needs to be a powerhouse Mary Sue who can do anything.
In this latest chapter Lucia literally decided that she will love her husband in a way SHE can find acceptable, regardless of his attitude. SHE will give as much as SHE wants, SHE will decide how involved she will get. SHE has the control of their relationship and her own mental state. How can people say that's weak?
Beatrice was reincarnated but only has (limited) herbal knowledge if I'm not mistaken. So her knowledge did help her out but it wasn't on the same level like Elise
One I really like, that is about healing (albeit maybe a tad too fast), self improvement and searching to right a suffered wrongdoing, is Ebony.
PLEASE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE AT THE BACK!!! i honestly think that people who likes reading generic royal/princess manhuas that has a predictable plot and characters are tasteless simple minded (I was like that back then) and doesnt really care about the story, they just want to read what pleases they’re fantasies. ANYWAY, Lets talk about how they forgave and talked about they’re mistakes immediately after the misunderstanding and didn’t drag the whole problem too long. This is how relationships should work people!! Not just in couples but through family, friends and other people as well!.
Ebony could be another comparison, but the minute she got out of jail she got the unconditional moral and financial support of the duke, who also did it without requesting anything in exchange (like, he didn't marry her for his own convenience like Hugh did with Lucia) so I still think it doesn't compare, even though I like the mental healing aspect of it quite a lot. Maxi from Under the Oak is the other lead I would say is more on the same boat as Lucia, as well as the MC from A Kind Goblin's Bird. These are all girls that would've been 100% defenseless if they had not married, because they had no form of social support in a society that would've victimized them without thinking twice about it. I wish people would stop to actually think about these things before they judge female characters. The Strong Woman is a concept motivated by modern society and how it gives agency to women, without the direct interference of a man. Hell, less than a century ago women could not vote. Less than 2 centuries ago, they couldn't even open a bank account. If you had no support, no security whatsoever, no money and no certainty of something as basic as your own physical safety, would you still be as strong and independent as you are now?
I agree with you its nice to see these kinds of characters because being a strong woman can be expressed in so many ways and in different experiences.
PLEWASE WOMAN LOVE HIM ALREADYYYYYYYYYYY （/TДT)/ （/TДT)/ （/TДT)/
I usually feel bad for the FL whenever the ML is a (potentially) certified yandere nutso. But in this case, Charlize has raised this poor kid into a yandere herself, while fully conscious of doing it too, so you know what, I'm not even sorry for what's coming at her. Honestly I'm glad that she will get her revenge on all the b*stards that hurt her for centuries, but if she's made her bed with this kid's education, I say be prepared to lie on it, mah gurl, because things will start to get dicey from now on.
Yes... She did not weigh on the consequences of her plan and manipulating the ML will be her downfall
I haven't said the prince wouldn't be a yandere on his own right. But she deliberately directed his yandere tendencies toward herself. That is what I mean when I say she made her bed. There are plenty of heroines that have yandere MLs but they usually try to make them curve their tendencies and become more normal and less obsessive. Charlize went the opposite way. She purposely made herself into the only person in the prince's eyes in order to use him to her full advantage. which I have no problem with because as you said, he agreed and with his IQ we can say he was probably cognizant enough to say no if he hadn't want to. But that doesn't change what Charlize did. My point is that one cannot have their cake and eat it too. She can have her revenge all she wants, but dealing with the consequences of the beast she unleashed will also be a thing she'll have to do. Expecting to simply set off somewhere and live in peace the rest of her life is a pipe dream at this point, but, unlike with other FLs dealing with Yanderes, I don't feel sorry for her. She chose this. She needs to deal with it.
Oh! I see. Well, I still want them to get a happy ending so I guess I don't care either way, but I would've liked to see some acknowledgement on her part that she did her best to turn this kid into not a very good person. But I'm a big sucker for yanderes either way, so I guess I'll just enjoy it instead.
Don't worry guys, this is the only big fight in their entire marriage, from here on out is just Hugo being whipped 300% of the time. The worst is behind us and now we can enjoy the fluff and bask in our glaring singleness for the rest of this story.
How can someone look at the FL and not see a person who's been systematically abused from a very early age? There's weak MCs and then there's trauma. Expecting this girl to be strong in any way after spending 26 years being beaten, isolated, starved and in constant danger of rape is ridiculous. Right now she's just constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop. She will need a lot of support and time to heal before she can finally accept that her new reality isn't going to disappear if only she starts asserting herself more.
Agreed.. not to mention she can’t run away anymore since she’s practically blind and weak. Why wouldn’t she be terrified. Poor girl.
Countess Pope in that last panel is all of us right now.
This really is some top-notch, great A fluff right here.