I started reading it without looking at the synopsis, and that was a mistake. Seeing Adelaide's (protagonist's) sister for the first time I did a double take and came back to look at the synopsis, and realized that my worries weren't unfounded. It turned out to be just another story with the premise of "my sister is absolutely evil for the sake of being evil". The plot seems incredibly generic, and the antagonist, the protagonist's sister, is just a classic, cookie-cutter white lotus bitch.
Oh, right, there is one thing that is different than usual. Our protagonist knew about her sister's true character this whole time, but decided not to do anything because she... pitied her. Yeah, all of the troubles described in this story wouldn't even exist if the main character wasn't an insufferable peak of naivety. Adelaide knew about all of the vicious things her sister was doing to the servants and other people, but chose to ignore them because she knew that in the original story, her sister dies at 20, so she just... decided not to bother.

The circumstances of the very first problem, and the reason our main character meets the ML, are also straight up ridiculous. The story starts when her sister, Noella, steals the man Adelaide was supposed to marry, Jerox. Adelaide doesn't give this much thought, but we soon find out that Noella did this because to become the successor, she needs to have a spouse, since those are the household rules. And the reason Adelaide didn't know about this? Everyone thought that she'd just marry Jerox, so no one even bothered to inform her of it. Yes, it somehow wasn't ever mentioned during conversations, and Adelaide, as a successor, somehow has never seen it written anywhere. Am I really supposed to believe something like this? Seriously?

After reading through 51 chapters of Adelaide doing jack shit to actually stop Noella, and just dealing with the aftermath of every one of her plans, we're presented with... yet another white lotus bitch, without even having dealt with the first one. This was the point where I thought that the author just can't write antagonists for shit and decided that even the sunk cost fallacy couldn't keep me from dropping this hot garbage.

ML is hot lol, but because he's hiding such a large secret, the romance has been slow. It makes sense, seeing as the author first has to set up the plot and the background to make things seem reasonable, so I'm not terribly torn up about the slowburn. ;D I feel like their relationship is moving at a reasonable pace due to all the misunderstandings and secrets between ML and FL.

FL is the stunning star of this manhwa. She kicks butt and takes no names. I'm so ready for all the faceslapping lol. I live for bamf!FLs and the faceslapping. No shame lol. ML is quietly bamf too, I'm ready for this powerhouse couple to get it together and take the world by storm hee hee.

FM is merchant smart and hard working. Her conversation with the ML is pretty cool and interesting.
It's a little boring and confusing at first though about her family member.

As of ch. 28, the ML is overly stoic and ends up boring, and antagonism is light. The interesting stuff will be the politics back home but we've managed about a week of plot in nearly 30 chapters..