Especially after finishing hard mode, she is just too broken to think straight.

and I don't agree with "How she handled Eclise was a bit mean too. It was her fault."
If Eclise knew he wasn't being loved so he must have stick to his royalty so he could at least show how grateful he is to his master. Penny wanted him to fall in love but she always told him that she only needed his royalty. Falling in love was his own choice.

Although it turned out he became a high status knight because he killed her in the game to protect Yvonne (The real daughter).

I love the drama and depth this story has. She's taken into a game but what really happened was the game was based on her previous life. In her previous life she was cursed by a 'monster clan' called the Leila cult to be hated and so everyone was always wary about her because she was the one who could extinguish the Leila monsters for good (she has powers of her own that awaken later on). She ended up dying when the sister came back but Yvonne's body was overtaken by a monster of the Leila clan and so after Penelope died in her first life, Yvonne who's actually a Leila monster ate the entire duke's family and ruled the kingdom by getting into the palace through Callisto. The Leila monster can 'seduce' and put a spell on people to make them fall for the Leila whilst Penelope was cursed to be seen as a threat to everyone for no reason. The Marquess Vinter Berdandi who's a wizard, was under the spell but once Yvonne the Leila ruled the kingdom and wreaked havoc he realized what had happened. (Idk if he knew Penelope was cursed or not, but he found out she was the only hope to destroy the Leila for good) But he gave up his life in order to 'freeze their world' and save Penelope's soul. It also rewinded time to before Yvonne was ever found but kept it frozen at that time. Penelope's soul was reincarnated as the Korean girl who was treated poorly by her family, but she was treated poorly because the spell of people hating her was still attached to her soul no matter who she was reincarnated as. So when she woke up in the game that worlds time unfroze and started because she was the needed piece to start their world again. No one has memories of the Leila. So I do love the depth of action and drama this novel does have because I never thought for a second it would turn into an action adventure novel with this much depth to it, I just thought it was a love story (which it is) but it opened up to a huge plot twist.

ITS CALLISTO DUH. Very cute because he seems scary but he's for some reason the only person in that world who isn't wary of her. And every issue she runs into he doesn't blame her or question her and ends up loving her. (There's a change where Eclise finds Yvonne instead of Vinter originally finding her but its because Vinter loves her too but Vinter and Penelope have a 'star crossed' love. They never click and could never trust each other. And so on Penelopes coming of age, Yvonne is there and tries to poison herself to frame Penelope but prior to that when Yvonne came back, Penelope gave up on life because Eclise betrayed her by bringing Yvonne, her family still hated her so she became 'suicidal' and asked Vinter to make her poison so she could kill herself.) Vinter gave her the poison and a necklace that glows if there's poison around and so when Yvonne and Penelope had a toast at the coming of age party, Penelope switched glasses with Yvonne and drank the poison herself. She ended up almost dying but was in a coma because Vinter had made a poison remedy incase because he didn't trust Penelope. Callisto was the one who ran to Penelope first when she was throwing up blood cause the poison while her family didn't even do anything but watch. While she was in the coma, Callisto came to see her everyday and it comes out later after when she wakes up that if she had died, he kept a knife on him at all times so he would kill himself because there's no point of living without her in the world. (Very dramatic and romeo and juliet like lol)

• Penelope. Really liked her character. A good but also terrible person at the same time, something that I like. She's not oblivious to it either since it's something she recognizes as well. Most of her actions are driven by her desire to get back to the real world however she's also not immune to the feelings she develops while living her current life. Without giving too much away, it's an interesting conflict and it certainly makes her not a "perfect" FL. The thing I took away after reading it was that she was an imperfect FL. Some might not like that, seeing it as a mark of a flawed character but I personally enjoy things like that. I enjoy some degree of hypocrisy and flawed behavior because to me that gives them depth. Too much and it becomes unbearable but some and it makes them feel more real. Ultimately, Penelope does more good than bad and that's why I enjoyed reading her story.
• Callisto. Overall I enjoyed his character. Not a groundbreaking character but certainly one that you grow to like as you read. Again, he has his flaws (what he did early in the epilogue to protect the FL, a bit of a stalker to say the least with the map). He's not the best communicator, to be fair neither is the FL. However, they do ultimately still communicate to some degree which is more than what a lot of stories have the ML and FL do so I'm giving him/them credit. I enjoyed his sarcastic side but the thing that I enjoyed the most was what he did in the end in telling the FL to go back home. That was genuinely a surprise because most stories have the ML try to keep the FL with them no matter what but the ML here was big enough to put her desires before his. It's in line with his character overall and how he treats the FL and I personally enjoyed that decision immensely, an automatic boost in my eyes.
• Character development. Overall, not too much to say. Not a fan but also not a critic. The story's not that long and it's difficult to pack a ton of genuine character development into stories as short as these. Overall, I'd say that it was adequate, the characters don't become new people by the end of the story but they're also not the same people they were at the beginning of the story.
• Villains. Not a fan of them in this story, they just felt too weak. This is a pretty common complaint of mine in most stories I've read. The villains are rarely fleshed out, they're often cartoonishly evil. In this story, Yvonne felt just... lacking and her reasoning to be the villain was lacking. I think I liked Eclise more as a villain and that's because he got some actual development and storytime.
• Eclise. Going to dedicate an entire section to him because he deserves it. He gets f*cked the hardest in this story, no contest. He's a s*ave whose country got wrecked, he gets bought by Penelope and used by her, gets used by Yvonne, and ultimately he loses his memories of it all in the side stories. HOWEVER! He's also not really a good guy which makes his character immensely interesting to me. His love for Penelope is not a pure one but an obsessive and possessive one. He wants her to himself, regardless of her happiness or feelings. His betrayal of Penelope is bad but he also betrays his fellow countrymen/s*aves as part of his cooperation with Yvonne. Eclise definitely suffers a ton in the story, some of which is inflicted by Penelope. But, and this is important in my opinion, even if Penelope had genuine feelings for him, his love for Penelope was the obsessive kind all along given the color of his bar. It would've been one thing if it changed but it was always a dark red suggesting that his love for Penelope wasn't twisted by her, it was twisted all along. Ultimately, I did pity him since he was a s*ave and his life improved but was also ruined by Penelope.
• Side Stories. I liked and disliked some of them. I didn't like how they made Callisto lock Penelope up in the castle. To me, it felt weird since he had just been willing to let her go to another plane of existence literally but now he locks her up? One action is incredibly brave, the other is incredibly cowardly. I do understand why it was used but I thought there was a better way to handle that scenario that made Callisto not such an overprotective/possessive person. The parts I liked though were where they communicated about where they were at and ultimately found an agreeable compromise to the situation they were in. It was good! Some good fluff as well that I enjoyed too, they ultimately have a kid at the end. I'm a sucker for HEA endings and that was nice, just wish they had two or more kids haha but in my head they will for sure.

When P is accosted after buying her s*ave knight, the story skips directly to when she is already in the mansion and Eclipse's interest is at 18%