
I mean like Anisa's choice was morally correct but Diet himself at times keeps on questioning why he has her around and wants to use her because she is a liability, a weakness for him- how smart was the choice Anisa made? Looking at the path Diet is travelling on right now, it doesn't appear that he'll not end up becoming the Villain in the end and the head of the family. Anisa's original plan was to hug his thighs till the time he lets her and then take off when she becomes an adult but right now she has the golden opportunity to go somewhere neutral and build her own life; it would be much better in my opinion than sticking around waiting for time to pass, not doing anything productive or lucrative.

I just didn't like Mildred's response to Iris because it was not an empathising response- it was a guilt tripping one in my opinion. Even when Iris was voicing her opinion of how Mildred has been prioritising Ashley since the beginning, she was mindful to mention that she feels awful for the way she does but she can't help the way she is feeling and what did Mildred respond with- Imagine how hard it must be for Ashley, imagine how difficult it's for her.
Yes of course Iris can imagine because she has been doing everything on her own- she is handling everything the best she can as an elder sister. She is helping her mother as much as she can and it breaks my heart that nobody can see how much she is tearing herself apart to do it. Not even her real sister lily- who calls her greedy for being a perfectionist.
Mildred is too caught up in the fairytale which is obviously not coming true now looking at the way things are turning out. And Mildred is a character who realises that there are so many factors that define a person's choices and calls herself not a believer of fated love but she believes that the prince & Ashley would meet once & fall madly enough in love to get married? The inconsistency of the thought doesn't escape me.
I wish it would have been handled in a much better way but it just made Iris's feelings look invalid especially when Mildred thought that she hated Ashley even more than Lily- as a reader I was supposed to accept Mildred's opinion and arguement but I couldn't because I empathize with Iris's character like many others do. Don't invalidate someone else's feelings instead reassure them that you are there for them, always have been and always will be. Iris did not want a moral lecture- she wanted reassurance and love from her mother.
Mildred could've explained her reasoning for prioritising Ashley to Iris later, after she would have calmed down and Iris being a rational person would have accepted it but right now, doing it when the person is obviously hurt & upset, Mildred is not only not resolving the issue at hand but is also reinforcing the fact that Ashley is more important because she has been at a disadvantage in the past as compared to her two daughters, not realising that her daughters lost a father too, her first husband and that doesn't justify Iris's dislike for Ashley but it is something that should have been kept in consideration.

I didn't read everything, but I agree with everything I've read, she's very hard on her daughter's for someone who's supposed to have the standards of a 21century woman in mind, and I forget most of the time that she's a reincarnator because it plays little to no place in the plot, even though there is a huge gap between what is considered correct now, and what was before.
I was also very surprised when she forced her daughter to dance with a man she didn't know, especially since the daughter was unwilling (and so was the mom, who almost turned down mister ML) knowing she'd already had a bad experience dancing with someone she didn't know before.
I just hope there is as little drama as possible because of that nosy ass co worker- istg some people seriously need to get a life instead of poking their noses where they don't even belong in the first place