Marriage of Convenience

If you want a strong female lead that goes against the norms of this renaissance time period, this is not it. If you are just looking for an otomeisekai, a european ambience transmigrator story, then this will do you well. My full review is below.

The story is upsetting. The female lead lives in a monarchal patriarchal society. She was a child bride!! She knows that if she does not have a child with her distant husband, then she is destined to be execommunicated from nobility and live in poverty for the rest of her days. Noble society is all about lineage and honor. It is not honorable to return to her maternal family (and so her maternal family does not communicate with her). There is no lineage with out an heir (and so her status is low within her husband's land). The world setting is against her in everyway.

I don't like the story though because the systemic problems are solved too easily. The female lead gives her transgressors a pass as long as they said "I did this because I was worried about you" or etc lines. I know this to be somewhat true for this time period and others. Under patriarchy, women often give passes to their transgressor. But for this reason, I hate every male character, husband, father, brother, or son. I can't get behind any ships.

On another note, the story itself is fine. The tropes for the genre are used exceptional well. Also the authors seemed to have study the time period. The artists are amazing. There are no 3D model horses and at times the backgrounds are stop drop noteworthy.

Thats it, fantasy, european ambience and going back in time, nothing new but the old is well done, good art, good characters and relationship development, kinda interesting story

So far it's pretty nice to read & art is nice too.
The only issue i have right now is how quickly she made up with her family, i mean there doesn't have to be a lifetime grudge but how can she forgive so quickly ugh. At least be mad for a few days haha. They deserved it.

I'd recommend you give this a go. The art is beautiful and has wholesome characters. There are some annoying elements, but they aren't shoved in your face like I find in many others of its kind. In my opinion, the way things are in the story are kind of justified in its set environment and doesn't break the immersion.

Gotten to ch36 and I have been loving this. 5/5 stars for story, characters and art. There is a fine balance of drama and comedy. The side characters are endearing. The ML is a little bland or soft, but it works given the context. Most enjoyable is how the FL matures as the story progresses. Reading some hilarious “critiques” here by those who are ignorant of how political marriages have worked historically. In the situation of a child bride, our FL is getting a fantasy outcome: The ML stayed busy at war & distant from the her, though incredibly considerate of her needs - seeing her as a serious responsibility he took on in exchange for privilege. I believe, based on the book, it is a about a decade age gap. Their connection starts once she has lived an adult life, dies young and is given a second chance. They have a nice organic slow build connection growing, starting when she becomes an adult. Also, she initiates this change.

When reading reviews, I am tired of finding “critiques” for characters not living up to modern standards and making black and white judgements about character intent. Also, the female lead’s immaturity makes perfect sense given the initially sheltered and then traumatizing life she had. If there was no growth on her part, I’d understand complaining about it. Some people on this site need to understand that reading a story about flawed people does not equate to condoning behaviors.

The art is beautiful. Very much the type of art I love & appreciate. To the point I considered not dropping just for the art.

But the fact he married her when she was NINE years old? & combined with her extremely immature/childish personality, even after the time regression?? Just wasn’t to my taste.
Being an Older Woman myself, I cringed & full on grimaced reading of her Naïve Willful Ingenue ways.

Also, the way she spoke of intercourse with her husband was so discomfiting to me. Like, the phrasing that he “tormented her endlessly in bed”…? 😮💨 I only hope that one day authors will allow grown adult women — who’ve lived to their late 20s, no less — to enjoy s3x. That, or properly depict & acknowledge coerced/non-consensual interactions. 😔

So far pretty enjoyable. The characters and story are likeable, even if the romance plot is a little frustrating at times (It's a manhwa of course). The "villainess goes back in time" plot is hardly original but this one doesn't feel cookie-cutter on the surface at least.

Still, its 17 is very early days for a manhwa however, so it remains to be seen where it will go. Certainly worth following at this point I think, regardless.

I love the art, its very nice, feels mature and playful at the same time. Which I think can describe the story well. I vie wthis as a story about growth and using this second chance to grow. It kind of differs from other time regressions in which the main character still is learning and you get to see how she's still childish in many ways but is trying to improve. It isn't an immediate change in which the MC suddenly thinks and acts differntly now that they've gone back in tiime. (Very similar to "Honey, I'm Going On a Strike&quot😉

An cheating, emotionally weak, coward fl who got what deserved she should've begged god for time rewind and the plot did it just so she can become "saint"
Lol the manhwas are getting stupider day by day well it's based on novel so Knovels are getting stupid and typical.