The Saintess Became the Northern Grand Duke’s Daughter Chapter 18 Discussion

This trope has been done many times before, but the author manages to keep the story interesting and engaging by creating compelling characters and adding a touch of realism that makes it come across as heartwarming instead of contrived. There are only 18 chapters so far, but they are well translated and I appreciate how the main current antagonist isn't reduced to being a dumb one-dimensional character, but instead, is competent at his job and it's believable how he made it to his current position.

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The high priest is explained to be good at medicine, can sense divine power, and is also good at acing benevolent. Plus he came to the duke with an actual plan to take away Liriette instead of just demanding him to hand her over and then getting shocked when he refused.

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It's a cute story with realistic actions and thoughts, and characters are quite fleshed out despite only having 18 chapters. I may bump my rating up to 5 if I read a bit more and enjoy what I see :)

One aspect which I really like was:

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How Noelle refused to leave the Temple/High Priest. It's sad, but often times victims of ab*se don't leave their ab*ser because of various reasons (I'm not really good or fit to explain them in detail since I may get them wrong), but this also makes Liriette's escape from the Temple bittersweet as she's leaving behind Noelle, who refused to leave with her.

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