Common Sense of a Duke’s Daughter

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When a young woman is killed in a traffic accident on her way home from work at a tax bureau, she suddenly finds herself transported to the world of the otome game she was playing the night before – but instead of the heroine, she’s been reincarnated as the villainess!

Using her knowledge of the game, “Iris” manages to avert personal disaster and decides to rebuild her life with her modern-day economic know-how. This is one mean girl who isn’t going to let her perceived reputation stop her from being a heroine!

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Accomplishments of the Duke’s Daughter
Koushaku Reijou no Tashinami
เกมรักศักดิ์ศรีบุตรีดยุก
公爵令嬢の嗜み
公爵千金的爱好
公爵家千金大小姐的爱好
Related Series
The Manual of a Duke’s Daughter (Spin-Off)
Common Sense of a Warrior (Prequel)
Common Sense of a Duke’s Daughter (LN) (Light Novel)
Recommendations
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Genjitsushugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki (10)
Tensei Oujo wa Kyou mo Hata o Tatakioru (9)
I Reincarnated as a Noble Girl Villainess But Why Did It Turn Out This Way? (WN) (8)
Haunted Duke’s Daughter (7)
Okoborehime to Entaku no Kishi (5)
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06/23/20 Asian Hobbyist c267
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Eru101
Eru101 rated it
June 8, 2021
Status: c267
I gave it a four stars for the sake that I've finished it. How can I explain it...

The story is rushed and lacking in plot? More like, the story didnt dwelve deeper into details especially the near end.

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Spoiler

I know that the FL and her past self became into one and that became the reason why, she could portray 'Iris' well. Because just as she said, she only remembered her past self when she reached the 'tragic ending' of the game for the villainess. That was one thing but she became too detached from her past self.

And as I reached the last chapter, I realized, her challenges were not really affecting her continuously but rather, the story has a pattern that the FL will overcame a challenge first before setting up another challenge. This made the FL clear on what she's doing and no conflicts. If there are conflicts affecting her continuously, it will be lighted-heartedly narrated.

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In other words, what's lacking is the feeling of seriousness of the situations. It couldn't invoke my feelings for the FL and for any other characters.

But still, it was a good reading. There were points in the novel that makes sense and not overly detached from reality.

But honestly, I was disappointed. I was looking forward reading a 4.5 rating novel. But it doesn't live up to expectations for me. <<less
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Thraximus
Thraximus rated it
June 29, 2020
Status: Completed
I don't have anything negative to say about the story or characters themselves and i'd say that this is a must read, the only reason I didn't give it a 5/5 is because the pacing was a bit off imo, things just happened too fast at times, a problem would occur, and within a couple of chapters would be fixed, now I don't mean it in the sense that the story skips things or that they happen "off camera", but for instance an entire battle would start and end within... more>> a few sentences, the fight would start, someone would charge, cut a couple of people, and done, whole battle over, and that happens quite a few times, if only some plot points were expanded upon a bit it would be perfect. <<less
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jRmor
jRmor rated it
February 6, 2020
Status: c240
First off..

  • MC is thought of "mary sue", but personally, I think her past life was just such a workaholic tax accountant that when she started with improving the fief, her knowledge kept on growing that with addition to the new departments she kept on establishing, she felt it possible to put on policies that were "common sense" to make the people's lives more on what was like in the modern times.
  • Male Lead is a "gary stu" but in a way, I could just accept that he is born a prodigy and that by travelling and studying under merchants and having "real life experiences" is what just established the meaningful reason behind being a genius as close as, or even above as the MC with her past life experience and knowledge.
  • I liked how the narrator made the challenges well above the MC's and Male lead's current IQ's making it give them actual hardships and not just focus on the romance.
  • It's almost unfair that the MC already had capable servants at her disposal but it actually tied together the personality of the MC with the workaholic of her past life.
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    What I mean by this is that, with her unusual personality of asking for street orphaned children as "presents" for her rather than gems and diamonds and that after her denouncing and being appointed the fief's proxy, there was nothing too different with how she acted in either pre and post past life memories. Her family saw nothing of her changed much other than that she just grew out of being a child and matured into a fine noble -- meaning no one questioned her actions once she did all sorts of reforms with her fief.

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  • I love the romance! The progress was neither too slow nor too fast and not unreasonable. They were attracted by the other's work ethics and slowly grew into a romance where they want the other to be by his/her side. They have their sweet moments and tragic moments. The introduction of a potential rival is also not unreasonable and very much in tune with the progress of the story!
Now I'm just waiting for the next chapters but I do hope that the potential love rival can match up to the leading male char.

This is a good read, very recommended! The only trouble is the amount of translator groups this one has. If u can organize how u read it, u can make sense of the story. That just means this is so much of a good story that a lot of translators are willing to translate it! Hehe

That's the end of my review. I hope to see new chapters soon and very much appreciate the work that is being done for this story. Really, I feel so thankful! Definitely one of my faves. :)
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ghouldens
ghouldens rated it
July 27, 2019
Status: c85
It's a pretty good story. I like the characterization but I think there's a lot of unnecessary details. The author has been too focused on describing how brilliant the MC is. There's plenty of skipping scenes, and I need more chemistry between the MC and the ML. By the way, when I read this, up to chapter 85, the website of asian hobbyist cannot be loaded, I wonder why. I hope it will get fixed soon so I can continue reading. Good job, anyway.
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Chrysanthemum Kiss
Jase Aniban rated it
March 25, 2018
Status: c99
Great world building and refreshing read. Love the politics which was discussed knowledgeably. Love the MC as she is very witty and she fights back. I love love confident MCs. Haha
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Croc
Croc rated it
February 7, 2018
Status: c84
I absolutely LOVE this novel. I love how the MC becomes reliant on herself and doesn't even care about her past grievances. I love her mom, her dad, and her attendants. And I love how people are starting to realize who she truly is. I also love her budding romance, and how that relationship is making them both realize and overcome their weaknesses. Overall, I just love this novel.
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ValSkye
ValSkye rated it
September 14, 2017
Status: c82
This is one of my favorite novels here, translated by one of the best translation groups. I love the fact that the MC is a strong woman, who doesn't simply cry or try her best to win the 'engaged partner', like most of the reincarnated villainess stories. After being expelled from the school and publicly humiliated, she decided to built her reputation little by little, with the help of her trusted personnel. Granted that her knowledge about certain things may be exaggerated a little, other than that, I like the... more>> things that she does to built the land entrusted to her by her dad. The romantic relationship also flows nicely without any cliche story of "love at first sight" or typical shoujo doki-doki moment.

Translation wise: So far the translators did a good job at translating this novel. Thank you to all translators for doing a good job here. <<less
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Vctr_vc
Vctr_vc rated it
July 25, 2017
Status: c74
I found Duke Daughter through a manga but the manga version is so slow and I can't bear wait any longer ???

So I drown my self in the internet looking for development of Iris life and here I am reading through 74 chapters within a day until my eyes hurt. I've warning myself to stay away from the screen but the story keep provoking me.

I love how the story developed. It's not slow nor fast. The MC is very clever, beautiful, independent, and so kind she's almost perfect.

I hope japtem... more>> continue this light novel soon. I'm carve for DD spoiler and couldn't resist to read the raw which never happen before. I only got slightly hint from the raw, because google Translate did it job awfully. So all I have to do is patiently waiting for the next chapters translated. <<less
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PandaPanPan
PandaPanPan rated it
June 17, 2017
Status: c5
Good gods, I think I've read ads in the phone book with more words than the small amount of words per chapter this story has to offer. I couldn't get pass chapter 5, which really felt like it should've been part of the first part of chapter 1 - in terms of pacing and length. Everytime the story started to pick up speed, the chapter comes to an abrupt end. Can't find myself willing to recommend this to anyone to read - as there other similar stories out there like... more>> this that're written better with far better pacing. <<less
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razgallo
razgallo rated it
February 4, 2017
Status: c63
The story is interesting but the author has the inability to build up tension makes the story rather predictable in many ways. The characters are totally black and white, ally or enemy, no backstabs or any kind of plot twisting mumbo jumbo because you can clearly see who the villains are if you pay attention.

The villains are tacky and somewhat edgy in a sense that why they are called as such is just because they are an enemy of the main character, they do not have any other reasons for... more>> their actions.

Character development is forgettable, they seem to have a single purpose like those two knights or that maid girl or that merchant or that librarian. They look more like tools for the main character to choose from when she needs them and they are loyal to a fault, not resembling close to human's ever changing behaviour and attitudes. As his majesty Claire wills, so shall it be done.

And with that, the conclusion is that it is not really that bad but it's rife with flawed plot progression and robotic characters. Very predictable, very boring climaxes in every arc. You basically know who wins anyway. Read it if you like city building genres like I am but a caveat that it falls off quite fast, I am only interested in what happens on the fief and nothing else anymore. <<less
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Cryarc
Cryarc
September 19, 2016
Status: c147
A great read, the otome game reference is only at the beginning of the story since it's a story that's started at the epilogue of the game. The MC is smart and hardworking, not that dense in romantic sense either. While she's moving a lot, there's a lot of things happening behind the scenes from side characters, some of them are aiding her and some of them are hindering her. Though some people write that she seemingly never got adversaries it's a wrong accusation, she does got adversaries, most of... more>> the time the enemies are plotting to strike down her and some of them are actually heavy blow to her image. She needs to work hard to recover from the schemes that's thrown at her. <<less
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ScotlandForsythe
ScotlandForsythe rated it
April 17, 2016
Status: --
Not what I expected. It's awesome and sort of slice of life. Not s*upid like a lot of the other ones out there. (MC is actually smart)

.... read. ^-^
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BoriCats
BoriCats
October 6, 2022
Status: c74
I know that I shouldn't read reviews first before reading a book, as there are reviews that were not accurate and may dissuade readers to potentially open the book. That's what happened first, after some time, I actually forgot about the reviews and read the book again which is a good move for me.

I was able to evaluate the book with no influence from other readers and I actually like it from the start until we reach the royal capital part. The MC was very dependable when she was starting... more>> her conglomerate and it was entertaining seeing her do some stuffs. But after the politics and hidden scheme came, It just lost its appeal. The MC was not for it and I can't see the need why she have to continue blundering this. As her motivation from the start is very simple and her dream was just to take of children in the orphanage. She has no aspirations but she cares so much from other peoples opinion. I know she has responsibilities but it's get tiring if its pointless. Being magnanimous and overly kind does not fit her character as someone who is on power.

I can still accept that as it pertains to character development but that's not I came for. Around this part, it has a lot of different povs that may have summed up into a single chapter but it took almost ten chapters to convey the opinion of the new character Letty and also of Adfred. I just don't care that much for them.

Another problem is the chapters with the povs of side characters, I think this was redundant as it can be included on the get go alternating from the MC and so on. My other problem with the book is that as usual with japanese light novel writing, it involves conversation paragraphs that does not indicates who is speaking. In western standard this is rubbish and simply put a no-no. But this was typical with japanese works but some works were clear on whose saying it or not but this book does not. It can go over for like 30 conversation and even if there is only two person who is talking you don't know whose saying this as their conversation contains similar topics with similar opinions. It's confusing.

Overall it's mediocre and it just don't hold that much on me. <<less
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zetnnik
zetnnik
February 1, 2022
Status: c144
It was OK in the beginning. It was a bit wordy, but the translation was good. Towards the 100s chapters, not sure if the writing changed, but where it was narration style before, it became more dialogues -- unfortunately, the translation quality dropped. Words were put together, but it was harder to understand what you were reading.

The MC is a bit of a Mary Sue, but it's bearable. It's just a bit slow moving as far as the romance, so I'm starting to lose interest... Hopefully, I can stick to... more>> the end.^^ <<less
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yellow eagle
yellow eagle
January 16, 2022
Status: c117
I thought it interesting for the first 30 chapters but it gets repetitive and nothing really major happens. There's no drama or excitement or romance. Actually I started it in hopes of reading a romance novel which have a very capable female lead. But that's it, in the whole story it only establishes that she is a capable businesswoman and all she does is business. Okay we get it she's smart but there really is nothing more to this story than that they should've ended this story in like 50-80... more>> chapters really. No character to root for, didn't feel a connection with a single being in this story. <<less
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Gabi94
Gabi94
June 29, 2021
Status: c18
Maybe there's another review here mentioning this, but most don't, so I'll make it clear that although I love the "business" theme in novels, this one is a disappointment. Not because it's incorrect or anything like that, I don't care a lot about this, after all it is a novel and not a textbook, It's just the way this novel was written that makes reading it extremely boring. Examples:

  • The author uses time-skip A LOT. So we can see the MC coming up with the idea for her bussiness, but not how it affected the world in general, neither the process of introducing it in the world which in my opinion would be more fun than just reading the character say " so, this is chocolate, do your thing".
  • No character development, including the protagonist. I know she's good at business and hardworking, other than that there's nothing else I can say about her.
  • No story, you see, I don't mean plot, because I like slice of life so I don't mind not having a well-defined plot, what I mean is that there's nothing going on outside of her looking at documents and putting things into action and then the time jumps to when everything has already been done. She doesn't go out, doesn't interact with anyone, there's no dialogue except what's necessary to "set up business". The best way I can make this clear is: I feel like I'm following the day-to-day life of a very busy and boring CEO, but as soon as he leaves the office I don't know anything about him anymore. It's more of a documentary than a real story. Seems that I'm exagerating, but I'm not. This novel urgently needs a balance between the business part and the life part, so that it can really be a story and not just a presentation of facts. This is a Tell-no-show all the way.
That said, I'm only at chapter 18, and I will continue to see if these points will improve, but was hard reaching this far so I don't hold a lot of hope for this one.
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SammieUy
SammieUy rated it
May 18, 2021
Status: c265
It had some good moments. The premise was really interesting, and Iris was a strong, non-OP lead. The main drawback is really the author's writing style. It really bothered me that everything was in first person tense. The perspectives kept changing but was always in first person so at times it was confusing to read. Also, there are moments when the plot just drags on and on in circles. The build-up towards the war and struggle for power was so long but the actual battle went by in a flash.... more>> And then there's Alfred who's sort of like a mythical unicorn. He just comes and goes.

All in all, this book is ok. It needs quite a bit if polishing but the bare-bones aren't so bad. <<less
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throughtheraine
throughtheraine rated it
January 22, 2021
Status: Completed
This novel is a good read though it's not the type that gave me adrenaline rush while reading nor it made me anticipate each chapter and kept me on my toes. Instead, it was something that can be read slowly and calmly. The plot is typical isekai with villainess turned heroine and the development was quite predictable. Nevertheless, it was well written. I appreciate that the author included various perspectives and it was not just about the protagonists' POV but even the side characters and common folks. It's not something... more>> you can usually found in other novels.

The focus of the novel was more on process as to how the FL brought about developments to her territory. There's no fluffy romance and the relationship between the FL and ML was not really delved deeply. However, it's nice to see a realistic aspect of life here wherein it's not just all about love but matters such as families and responsibilities cannot be taken for granted. Both the protagonists took these into consideration in making their decisions. I like how both of them are wise and rationale beings. Also, it was notable that even though the FL has an almost perfect character, she still has moments of weakness which makes her more human. Moreover, she did not achieve everything all by herself but she has a reliable support group around her.

Overall, this novel does not really have some amazing, heartwarming and memorable scenes nor it's something I would read again in the future but I think it's nice to read if one just wants to pass some time. <<less
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puregarnet
puregarnet rated it
January 3, 2021
Status: Completed
3 Stars

Hmm, the first book was quite bad where all the characters didn't quite make sense and it was hard to really identify with Iris though this may all just be translation issues haha. Moreover, all the ideas Iris gave out just seemed to be completed very fast one after the other that it felt too unbelievable.

Moreover, some parts were left up to the reader's imagination too much or just weren't elaborated such as how on earth did Tanya become basically a leader of an elite spy organisation? I mean... more>> I can kinda believe it when it shows her increasing capability in investigating from Milo and Dean's conversation but then how did she get so many people to spy for her? And even loyal enough to just go off to infiltrate overseas in another kingdom in super short time. Her spy kingdom was the most unbelievable.

Other than that, there were some lose ends such as her friends love interest and what happened to Dawson? The Knight's son person. Also, a lot of what happened in the beginning was similar to Ascendence of a Bookworm although it way all just be a common trope thing haha. But Bookworm did it much better so it kinda lowered my opinion on this. Also, I thought the romance were kinda insta lovey and the chemistry was average. Otherwise,

all the character backstories were quite good. And the first prince was not what I expected which was nice. Iris' loyal servants too.

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Asphyxia778
Asphyxia778 rated it
October 20, 2020
Status: c230
Common sense of a duke's daughter is overrated.

The beginning is somewhat better than others but quickly loses it's charm as we all can tell where it will go. Plus the political aspects also start getting sketchy and childish. The MC becomes boring and the characters remain mostly 2 dimensional.

Honestly the ending is also too much childish for me.

3 stars overall, enough to pass time
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