Unaware That My Legitimate Sister Is My Husband Chapter 41 Discussion

The translation splits the chapters into parts btw, so Chapter 34 for example is just part of chapter 12.

I haven't finished reading it but man is this story terrifying. In a way, it really reminds me of "If You Are A Dodder Flower". The MC is weak, but her writing is so captivating, it clearly displays her psychology, how fearful she is of her husband from her previous life, and how she wants to escape but Spoiler

her husband reincarnated too.

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She was not forced to be in a relationship in her past life, and she did seem to hold affection for him but their circumstances were just so unfavorable, since as Emperor, her husband had a harem after all (even if he didn't want to and disbanded it for her but his obsessiveness and lack of communication didn't really help). And she really couldn't blossom and live carefree in the harem, with her family support gone and only being an illegitimate daughter from an outside mistress. She calls herself vicious and impure, because she also became a schemer in the past. The Emperor always knew her actions against his other concubines but he never punished her though.

It seemed like he really did only ever love her, but he didn't have the maturity yet to let her be free and to give her children because of his possessiveness (she was quite frail too in the past life). From the text, it sounded like she felt insecure with her relationship with the Emperor, sometimes she'd even resort to slapping the Emperor because her emotions were frayed (he never laid a hand on her though). So with that past history, she didn't want to be involved in another toxic and passionate tango with him, even if she held affection for the Emperor, she wouldn't mind just being an ordinary woman married to a man she doesn't love in her reborn life.

They even said in the text that she's suffering from mental illness, while still only being a young girl. But she seems to be healing and she's getting a closer bond to her sister, who she acknowledged she misunderstood in her previous life. It doesn't help that she, doesn't really know everything happening around her, so she can only misinterpret some things. And she really is weak, psychologically, which isn't a bad thing in a character in my opinion. The story isn't a cliche, Mary Sue, shojo romance, the yandere character, really is frightening instead of just childishly possessive/abusive, and it's understandable why the MC is the way she is.

The ages are not really clear too, it's probably a Chinese to English issue, but even after she had her hairpin ceremony (which usually happens when a girl is 15), she gets called a "girl over 10 years old", someone who is 20 could also be called a "girl over 10 years old", so it's really imprecise, especially since the flow of time is not really explained well, i.e. How long has it been since she started living in her clan? Years seem to pass by without any acknowledgement, it makes reading the story so much more nerve-wracking and elusive.

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Spoiler

O M G no the story was nothing like what I expected. Prepare for some mindf*ckery in the later chapters. The MC is not what she appears to be. The love interest's characterization is different from what you'd initially expect. This story is worth the read just for the terrific reveal. It creeped so slowly, hints were present in the background, but even when I thought something fishy was going on, I still couldn't completely grasp it.

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