I usually don't review or add to my lists series that I didn't like from the start but this one is so painfully bad that not even suspense of belief can save it. The setting of the FMC being abused child, secretly intelligent and somehow leaving that repressed status are almost default settings of most Korean and Chinese princess stories. The problem of this series lies in how badly executed the premise is. I can't expect better from the rest of the series ...

The story tries to be coherent, but the first chapters are absurd. Importing water as they present it is nonsense, just as an abandoned child with almost no contact being remotely sane. I mean sending a girl that is supposedly cursed, dumb and doesn't know how to speak is basically a war declaration. If the king impregnated every woman he sees, and the whole empire is based on sacrificing his children he'd have tons of other bastards to send and the story wouldn't even start... The whole empire is absurd, just as everything that has been presented. Actions leading to anything are hastily put together, just to present us with a random shojo trope that resolves in favour of the MC.

And lets not get started about the proportions/consistency of feet/hands or anything that isn't a face ..

... Last updated on May 11th, 2023, 7:32am

it had a nice start and i really liked the idea first.
but it feels like it’s getting so dragged on. not only the fact that she hides that she is (kind of) absolutely sane but also the whole revenge plot is so annoying.

I think.