- #1
The story starts off strong, with various plots and devious political schemes occurring as the main character is forced to adapt the world. The court is vicious, a place of backstabbing and face-slapping. Our main character uses her apparent age and identity as a small, cute child to manipulate those around her and raise her immediate family to the top of the ladder!... The story pacing then slows to the speed akin of frozen maple syrup, while she essentially runs around being cute and acting like an ACTUAL child, and not a literal adult. Especially not the MC we were promised in the beginning.I see a lot of people who really enjoyed this story, especially since they apparently really enjoyed the ‘fluffy, slice of life’ aspect, and the slow pacing. But as someone who came for the court politics and a black-bellied actress using merciless methods to help her family, I’ve been waiting for the actual plot to start back up again for over a hundred chapters. At chapter 350, I give up.Personally, I think the series deviates away from what the summary promised, to become a dragging, boring slice of life with some romance sprinkled somewhere in the actual molasses of the story. If you like slow slice of life... go for it, I guess. It’s not written poorly, and the translation is very good.
