I Became The Stepmother Of An Irrevocable Dark Family Chapter 54 Discussion

First up kudos to the translators, your doing a good job, next TLDR;

potential ML's are frustrating, with one being less mature than a toddler and the other being non existent, the story is emotionally void somehow

Read it without thinking too deeply, and only for Rebecca/Rere being cute

Rere is the shining light of this, but she's weirdly hollow feeling as well. It's like someone wrote down the characteristics of a child and someone else made a homunculus based only on that. I think she's cute, but she doesn't feel like a 5 year old child, especially not a mistreated one, her trust is pretty easily won and she doesnt retreat into herself at any point. Every child is different, but Rebecca feels wrong

Honestly the two potential ML's are infuriating to the point I just want Leona to divorce the duke and leave with Rebecca. Screw them both, yeah Luca too

The Duke is overall tr*sh, he puts Leona in a literal warehouse for no discernable reason, is angry at her for the slightest thing and blames her like a child. Rere at least is a child

Okay so the Duke is apparently this powerful figure in the Kingdom, who handles all the dirty work, but somehow he couldn't possibly learn the Leona was ab*sed in some way or that the nanny was mistreating his child?

Spoiler

So at a tension breaking point, the Duke literally forces Leona to leave and she does. Its meant to be emotional, but honestly it feels incredibly clinical to me, her emotions are kinda... there but not really

The whole thing feels empty and derivative, with a bizarre point of Luca (a potential ML) literally morally blackmailing her into returning to the Duchy with some weird coercion followed by a cold drop to make her panic

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Also the romance is like not there at all, the Duke is tr*sh, and Leona has spoken to Luca maybe twice if that. Until all of a sudden Luca is saying her likes her out of literal nowhere? Why? Where? When? What?

I'd have accepted it more if he said he fell for her at first sight, that is more believable to me

Honestly this novel is going to have to pull some absolutely incredibly reasoning out of its ass to make me like either the ML or even Luca at the point