Hello dear friends of @TheAnimeRealm, greetings and blessings, on this occasion I come to talk to you about a Manhwa that I thought was good, controversial and at most a topic to analyze, in short, if being a mother is not easy, can you imagine being a mother of 4 children when you are only 14 years old? Among which the oldest is only two years younger than you, and considers you a stepmother who does not want to know anything about it, because that story will be told in Merchen's stepmother.
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It is the story of Shuli, a young girl whose parents live from day to day because they make bad moves, and her older brother wants everything easy, until one day Shuli's life changes when she meets the duke of a great house that supports the emperor, very influential and dominant, the Neuschwansteins, in which Johannes, the current owner and leader of them, decides to marry her, despite her age, and with a thought more than a social marriage, it is something more political and with thought to take care of his children until Jeremy, his eldest son, can take over as head of the family.
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It seems ironic that he chose a girl for it, but there is a secret that made him make that decision and that Shuli, despite only being 14 years old, is a mature girl, who adapts to her new life better than she can and wants to help those children, despite the fact that they see her as a woman who is taken advantage of and interested, really her goal is to ensure that all of Jeremy, Elías and the twins León and Raquel manage to have a good life and in the case of Jeremy, when he is old enough to be able to take control of the family, achieving so she can retire.
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But not everything will be so simple since Shuli will have a second chance after a tragic event, so she will realize that the only way to achieve her goal is to understand her husband's children and do her best to get allies in the dukedom who can at the time be the support for Jeremy, despite his youth and lack of blood on the part of the family, he commits himself equally or more than the other family members, he loves them as his children and gives everything for it, meeting Nora, a young man along the way. an aristocrat who has not had it easy despite being from a good family, another of the powerful ones, and being the heir to it, but only by meeting Shuli will he understand that although his life is not easy, there are no shortcuts to solve problems, simply face them and make a good impression in it.
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It is a story that currently has 157 chapters, it is still broadcast, you can also see the intervention of the church. Do you think that a woman who has no connection with any of the children, especially with the eldest, can love him as her son or will there be something more? Ps I invite you to read it and draw your own conclusions since Merchen's stepmother will have a long road to achieve her happiness.
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Author Spices and kitten, drama genre, fantasy, historical, romance. Illustrator ORKA, Editorial TAPAS-2019.
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