@aurafort when Penelope was young, she was given toy cutlery for her meals, which as you can see from previous chapters aren't really usable. and she couldn't voice her opinions bc duke and brothers would assume she was throwing tantrum as per usual. So she was basically starved for the entirety...
@HarukaNazu I totally get you. It might just be easy character setting, to give contrast later on when the 2nd daughter truly gets herself in the deep end of sh!t creek and her always-doting, always on-her-side grandma finally turns on her completely or something to that effect? I mean you got...
@HarukaNazu In previous chapters, it is said that the mother of eldest daughter (RIP lady) clashed with the grandmother a lot, like a lot. So granny hated her daughter-in-law, in turn hates her child. The second daughter and her birth mother, the concubine (did I spell this right?) have been...