Enemies Meet at the Engagement Ceremony

bibi._ says:

okay now let me be honest. i arrived at chapter 97 before deciding to abandon it. why?

BE CAREFUL THERE MIGHT BE SOME SPOILER
well, the first chapters are nice, they’re refreshing and it’s not that bad. the only thing that bothered me from chapter 20 to chapter 30-40 was the slow narration. they focused a lot on their life when they were 7 year-old kids. at first it’s funny but ends up being boring. the characters are nice in the first chapters, they’re all have their personality, their story and peculiarities. it’s refreshing. (for example the fl father, he seems a sweet person with just a handsome face, a typical cinnamon roll but later you find out he’s actually someone quite scary if you bother him or hurt someone important, he’s also sly, he’s in sheep’s clothes sometimes.) the fl isn’t too intelligent nor she’s too dumb. she has the soul of a grown woman but she acts like her age, probably because her soul is inside the body of a child. it’s not that bad, i always found the fl and ml that were reincarnated as a kid and acted like grown ups a bit boring and sometimes annoying, that’s because later those protagonists would sometimes act surprised when people question their real identity or age. (ofc they would, you act like a grown up and don’t even try hard to hide it, duh.) the ml is the typical “genius” but at least sometimes he acts like a kid of his age.
after a lot of chapters we end up seeing the fl and ml growing up. nothing changes other than some political problems (like typical novels like this). after growing up the fl starts feeling down because she always lose against the ml as they grew up, she begin getting frustrated and decides to try something new, going to her friend’s 18 birthday party. skipping some worthless information, we end up finding out the parents planned all of this to make her understand that she had to change the way she fight. she does and then ends up accepting an important mission, together with the ml and the crown prince to kill the demons. that’s where the characters become stupidly dumb. in the first half they don’t look that different from before but in the second half, you can see the changes.
at first the 18-year-old female lead was obsessed with swords, didn’t understand the weird method nobles used to insult others but was intelligent enough to understand when someone had ill intentions towards someone and herself, although she didn’t think too much most of the time, she wasn’t stupid enough to do something that would cause big problems to others. but now she just looked dumb, stupid and acted like a kid. she would fight with the gray knights even when they were in danger, she would say something dumb without thinking too much. it was entirely different from how she was before. when she would use her wit to help others even if it meant going against the empress and before she would stop fighting with her enemy if they were in danger.
even the ml changed. after the disappearance of his mother, he became cold and emotionless and began doubting anyone. okay, i understand the trauma but it still doesn’t make sense. the ml hadn’t experienced something very traumatic to end up this way. it’s not normal that someone becomes emotionless and doubts anyone just for something like this, since he has his grandfather, his father and his knight’s love too. leaving that aside, his weird obsession of the female lead sounds forced. i would have understood if suddenly he fell for her for her looks when he met her for the first time, or he fell for her for something she did one day, but no. it wasn’t anything like that. suddenly he decided that he didn’t trust anyone and that only the fl and her knights could be trusted. why? because they were easy to read. he decided that the fl was fun to look at and that’s it. he would always ask her to “not be boring” because if she would end up boring, his life would turn meaningless.
the empress first impression wasn’t that deep but at least she seemed like a true villain but no, they ruined her character too. in the latest chapter i read, she acted like a kid that had her toy stolen, she looked so dumb when she talked with the, already, dumb fl. the first impression of the empress was: an ambitious woman that was willing to abandon her own family and ruin them to gain what she wanted, she was good at hiding her true intentions and was good at controlling her expressions, she was good at making people change their opinion with just two words and she wasn’t easy to deal with.
now.. why did they make those characters like that? it really bothered me how everyone was turning dumb and to be honest, i don’t understand the reason why they made the fl remember her past life when it’s not useful