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The novel starts off promising before still falling into the same pit traps and trope hell that is otome game reincarnation.First of all are the misunderstandings. A lot of the charm that I found in the novel was how the MC was determined to change her pushover personality by acting as the original Deborah did in the novel and how her outward appearance contrasts to her internal monologue. Of course, this gets quickly abandoned as Deborah's image goes from rotten to "mysterious and beautiful genius" of the course of a few months.Second of all is the ease of things that which happen to her. She manages a coffee business. Gets carried by the Master constantly. The competition implodes itself, and she's never caught off guard. The business is never really fully fleshed out, it's just there for seemingly no reason. The engagement with growing the business isn't there and so it's just some weird side quest/minigame that Deborah imposes upon herself which doesn't really go anywhere. This kind of carries over to her rivals politically, financially, and romantically. I get that it's a romance, but god damn do her opponents just let her walk over them.Third of all are the characters. Because this is ultimately a otome game reincarnation novel, Deborah knows the personality of all of the characters, and thus none of the characters are delved into that much. Which is a shame, since a good cast of characters would have absolutely carried this novelFinally, we have the romance. It's a typical reverse harem-type. The main coupling between Deborah and Isidor is just extremely shallow and generic. We have Deborah falling for Isidor instantly based on looks and he just happens to have a great personality, while Isidor is the typical "mysterious, perfect" archetype in which Deborah naturally falls in love with because he's also a Gary Stu type of individual.Overall, just a novel that shows it's true colors after a frankly fun and interesting beginning, but still failing to expand any further on its initial fun ideas.