Unfortunately, I only thought she was awesome until she and Aquasteed arrived in Aquasteed's country, Marineforest. There, she meets the sequel otome game's FL (Female Lead), Aishira, and everything just went downhill from there.

She literally does nothing but cry and get jealous this whole arc. Her constant cases of "insecurity" makes reading the story incredibly frustrating.

And, yes, I put quotations around "insecurity" because that is what Author-sensei wants you to think she feels. Rather than being insecure, however, I see Tiararose as someone who has no common sense whatsoever. She's distrustful and spoiled, and she doesn't reflect on her actions (or inactions). In a way, she's very self-centered.

I understand jealousy, but not to the extent that Tiararose had dragged it on for. There's a fine line between being jealous that Aishira wants to get closer romantically to Aquasteed, and just not trusting that Aquasteed will choose her, Tiararose. She also doesn't trust Aquasteed enough to confide her worries. She merely bottles it up like she's supposed to be the "bigger person" for not making a huge fuss over it and then cries about it when she's alone, creating countless and pointless misunderstandings and frustration just to push the plot along.

True, she's technically in a game and her fears of Aishira stealing Aquasteed from her (because Aishira is the FL and Aquasteed is the Capture Target) is not unfounded, but she needs a better excuse than to continue blaming the game setting for her "insecurity".

If the world she was in truly followed the game logic, Tiararose wouldn't have been there to witness Aishira's attempts to "capture" Aquasteed in the first place.

Her very existence means that the whole premise of the game should serve as a reference, not a guarantee. However, she does not get that. She relies too heavily on the fact that she's in a game world to understand that things have changed because she's the one that changed it. She doesn't realize it and she still hasn't even at chapter 52. It's truly frustrating and I cannot stress this enough.

Moreover, she was so harsh to Akari for not following etiquette and dancing with Hartnight more than proper, but (where I'm at in the story) she sneaks out of the castle with a man who is not Aquasteed, her husband, to go to a place that is isolated from civilization with them two being alone and together. Oh, and did I forget to mention that she's currently the Crown Princess?

Now, if that ain't hypocrisy at its finest then I have no idea what is.

And other than receiving the blessings from faries (that somehow did not exist nor have a variant of in her country despite the two countries being geographical neighbors), she has no redeeming qualities. Even having a domestic skill like baking really doesn't nearly do a good job filling the plot hole that is Tiararose.

The prince realizes he's in love with Tiararose and... she rejects him immediately for the LI (high spec prince). Although I don't particularly feel that it was wrong of her to reject him but, I can also say that it was somewhat unrealistic. She has been with him most of her life then because of this incident she quickly went to another guy. I seriously felt bad for the prince rather than for the protagonist and the LI because there was no emotional attachment towards anything but to the new LI. Best part though. was there are cute scenes of dating... yay?

For no reason, the villain from the first arc suddenly becomes BFF's with the MC. On top of that, there's no antagonist in the second arc. The 'love rival' isn't remotely evil, so it just feels like a big waste of time. The worst thing she ends up doing is almost speaking up to disrupt the MC's wedding. But the side characters stop her instantly so nothing even happens. Honestly, I might've applauded her for ruining the wedding because at that point, I think I was brain-dead.

The story lacks character development and the plot is bland. The MC is quite toxic as the chapters go on. It's seems that as she becomes more in love with Prince Aquasteed (the names are ridiculous btw,) the more jealous and illogical she is. For example: when she met the sequel's heroine Aishira and noticed her kindness and lack of malice towards her, she had the audacity to think "It would be easier if she was like Akari." Akari was the heroine of the main game and was malicious during the first half. That left an extremely bad taste in my mouth. Then the story goes on to have Tiararose be blessed by the forest fae and king (apparently it was extremely rare to be, even the original heroine was not blessed by any spirit king/queen.) That made it cliché as heroines always seem to be OP. The drama in the story was pathetic as well, from going to argue with the actual spirit queen of the sea over some of the loss of her sweets to befriending the sky king and making the sea queen jealous, which almost caused the destruction of the entire marineforest. What I find ironic, was that the out of all the characters, ranging from Akari to the sea queen, the one I actually hate the most was the main character herself. Tiararose was incredibly toxic, jealous and insecure despite being raised by a doting family for a good amount of time, and despite the constant love and assurance of Aquasteed, she still manages to nitpick every problem and be overcome with grief.

The only source of character development that I found was in Akari. She went from a spiteful villain hiding behind her heroine halo to a caring friend that was supportive, which was surprising. Aishira was a good addition because she truly was a good person that had realised her love for Aquasteed too late. Although I was disappointed when she almost stopped the wedding because of her realisation for her feelings, she still recognised her mistake and repented thanks to the help of Akari. Prince Aquasteed was your typical loving prince, the difference being that he didn't have a solid reason for loving Tiararose. I find it difficult to understand how someone can fall in love just from looking at someone else's different facial expressions from reading a book. However, he is unwavering and supportive so kudos to him.

After the Marriage of Tiararose and Aquasteed. The plot became something about sweets disappearing.

The chapter when Tiararose was kind of kidnapped by the Forest Fairy King and Aquasteed go after her is one of the chapters that I read while thinking "Ah... how pointless." At this rate I already was feed up with the story...

ex-rival who became best-friend at the drop of a hat, the new rival super predictable...

Aishira (sequel heroine)

Tiararose is just so dumb and reckless, after everything she worked hard for, especially Aqua, she lost her friggin memories about the time she spent with her husband Aqua and I just kinda hate author-san for that so I'm waiting for more chapters, I need answers (> o <)