@savris
If you want a female lead who is really good at manipulating people who is good at predicting how people will act then you might like "The Villainess Lives Twice"
https://mangadex.org/title/49644/the-villainess-lives-twice
in this one the male lead tries to get her to stop using herself...
I think the best option if you want to continue would be to talk to NASS again and ask why they keep so long or when they are going to continue it (they are pretty active in other stuff so maybe they did plan a mass release or maybe someone responsible for this stopped answering for some reason...
I hate it when a story gets sniped because everytime it happened to a series I have read, the snipers started to post even less after the first group gave up or also completely gave up after a short while. I'm pretty sure this group will do the same.
Not communicating with the people who where...