Kekkon Shoya no Deathloop~Nosuji Reijou wa Nando Shindemo Megemasen~ Chapter 64 Discussion

Oh boy, the summary completely misrepresents the story.

What it sounds like: as*hole husband humiliates our MC and then forces her into his bedroom for reasons. She dies during reasons and then is reincarnated to repeat a few hours of angst.

What it actually is: You still have the as*hole husband humiliating our MC, but he actually barely shows up for the first half of the story. She does die in his bedroom, but at no point does she angst. Instead, you have a mu*der mystery where the mu*der victim is also the detective.

I think the rewinding portion of this story is a really interesting mystery and very well done. There are some frustrating parts, but the frustration is within the narrative rather than with the narrative (i.e. Our MC is also frustrated and expresses this at length at the sources of frustration).

The romance: Spoiler

was cute, actually! By the end, I was convinced that the Duke was actually a good guy. He follows the trope of socially-stunted-ML-misunderstood-as-an-as*hole but, whereas most of the time these MLs really are a**holes, he's a genuinely good guy.

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More specifically, Spoiler

he had given in to peer pressure to insult her family, but he had also found his backbone a few seconds later to take back what he said and defend her family's honor (this happened immediately after she left, of course).

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