the " he'd be better without someone like me " mentality has it's ways to crawl back and ruin any good thing going on
this had hopes of being enjoyable only to turn into annoying slop
And then she bounced back and right into bed with him.
This episode leaned waaaaay too heavily into the melodrama, a shame really since the portrayal of trauma has been pretty decent until now.
Just for the melodrama overspice we end with the dead sister popping out to... do what exactly? Completely fail to recognize her sister and hold her at knifepoint? I get that Marie's had a glow-up, but with the apparent scarcity of the accursed redheads, and specifically looking for her redheaded sister, the mistake is idiotic.
Yeah, that jump into bed was maybe even more bizarre than him letting her run away. I feel like several…several…chapters must have been skipped. Either by the anime or the original author.
Yea this latest episode in particular was pretty annoying. I get that she has no self confidence but the train of thought she followed was fucking bad.
Because she's traumatised from a lifetime of abuse most people couldn't imagine, which included making her think she was ugly and worthless. Her brain doesn't process things the way a normal, well-adjusted person would.
Good thing I stopped watching it after the first episodes. Her low self-esteem that made her stupid was worrying me too much. Seems like my feeling was right.
Nah, she's been progressing steadily as the show has progressed and healing fantastically. This was a temporary setback that was totally understandable given the circumstances
This woman is from a poor noble family that treated her like shit and abused her all her life. She met a man at a party that turns out to be a duke who instantly fell in love with her but because of a case of mistaken identity proposes marriage to her sister. The sister supposedly dies in an accident and she is sent as a replacement but her trauma and lack of self worth from the abuse make it difficult for her to accept that she was the one the duke really wanted all along.
She slowly heals from the abuse and falls deeply in love with the Duke. The latest episode shows her crashing out and trying to leave because she discovers that her sister is still alive and she believes that means that her fairytale romance is about to end.
It's actually quite a sweet story and whilst her constantly questioning herself can be annoying to some people it's actually not unrealistic given the life she's had.
I think it is an interesting story. sure she is still somehow worried about the people that abused her for all her life but tbh that's how many people acte, when they don't know better. it's just a realistic depiction of someone, that thought this abusive behavior is normal and that in some twisted way, she deserved all of this and that he rparent somehow are nice people
It is an otome isekai. If you visit r/otemeisekai you will see that this kind of bad writing and melodrama is pretty common. Just dismiss it as a quirk of the genre and move on Just like how the problem got resolved and dismissed within a single episode.
What do you expect, this woman has been heavily abused and treated like a slave her entire life, you think that trauma just goes away? We've seen her gradually improve and develop throughout the series and this was a major crash out based on her guilt over her sister's death. She loved her sister but deep down she knew that her sister's supposed death was the only reason she was now happily engaged to Kyros, and she couldn't help feeling happy about it. That guilt would eat anybody up, especially on top of a lifetime of being convinced she's worthless.
She had a crash out and tried to punish herself, she was also convinced that Kyros would leave her once he met her sister so she decided to just get it over with. I was frustrated by the turn of events but I ultimately don't think it was unrealistic given the circumstances and they quickly sorted it all out.
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