Pereshati Jehardt is the daughter of a recently deceased count. Her husband, stepmother and stepsister murder not long after she marries in order to get their hands on her inheritance.
Then, she wakes up in her bed. Her lover hasn't proposed to her yet, but she knows she doesn't have much time before it happens again. In order to buy time, she visits the handsome but notorious Duke Therdeo Lapileon, whose family is rumored to be cursed, to propose marriage.
The duke is unimpressed, but relents after circumstances reveal that Pereshati might hold the key to breaking the curse. Along the way, Pereshati develops a bond with both him and his family, who grow to be rather fond of her themselves.
My In-Laws Are Obsessed With me is a Korean Light Novel written by Han Yoon seol. A Korean Webtoon adaptation is being drawn by Seungu and can be read here
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Tropes:
- And Now You Must Marry Me: When trying to barge into the Grand Duke's home doesn't work, Schiff simply abducts Pereshati, Rebecca, Raymon, and the friend (Adeus Potson) that they were trying to meet in order to force her to sign a marriage contract despite her already being legally married.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Defied. Pereshati acknowledges that her theory that the Lapileon's blood doesn't affect her because she'd been killed by it before sounds hard to believe, but Saoirse points out that the Lapileon curse itself doesn't really make sense, so it's not hard to believe her story.
- Art Shift: Whenever Pereshati meets with her old friends, there is a panel where all three of the friends are drawn to look very manly while giving encouragement to her.
- Attempted Rape: Dodolea once had Therdeo drugged when he visited the capitol and attempted to have her way with him.
- Buried Alive: Pereshati narrowly avoids having this happen to her when she temporarily dies from Therdeo's poison.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Though she never treats Pereshati poorly, Saoirse acts distantly to her because she has suspicions about her motives for marrying Therdeo. She warms up to her after seeing how worried she is when Celphius becomes violently ill. Pereshati saving her from getting hit by a horse in the road also probably helps. Gloria, meanwhile, starts to warm up to her when she sees how much Celphius has cheered up because of her. The fact that Pereshati was correct in that one of the Lapileon's distant relatives was selling his daughter's blood is also a factor.
- Delicate and Sickly: The fourth princess, Dodolea, was this when she was young. It's only recently that she's gotten healthy.
- Pereshati notes that her late father suffered from heart disease, so she wasn't all that surprised by his death. The discovery that foul play might have had a hand in it shakes her up.
- Good Stepmother: It isn't long before Pereshati becomes this to Celphius, from taking care of him when he gets hurt to arguing on his behalf to Therdeo.
- Heir Club for Men: The heads of the Lapileon family refuse to allow a woman to become the family head, despite the fact that the curse only passes from father to children. Saoirse did briefly become the Grand Duke following the death of her and Therdeo's older brother, but the death of her own family let her in no state to be in charge. This doesn't seem to be the case for the empire as a whole, given that the eldest princess is explicitly the crown princess, though there are hints that the emperor doesn't really intend to let her take the throne.
- Internal Reveal: Therdeo, Gloria, Saoirse and Phineas learn that Pereshati has come back in time after she reveals that she suspects that Islette came back as well. The same conversation also has Pereshati reveal the circumstances behind her and Therdeo’s marriage to the others.
- Mama Bear:
- Upon hearing some children talk badly about Celphius (then having another child confirm that Celphius is being bullied at school), Pereshati calls a meeting between the parents.
- Saoirse delivers a beating to Islette's father when she learns what he's done to her. Given what happened with her own son, this is unsurprising.
- Marriage of Convenience: Pereshati proposes this to Therdeo: They marry for one year, then divorce. He gets the imperial family off his back to marry one of the princesses, she gets away from her step-family and ex-lover who she knows intend to murder her.
- Nephewism: Celphius is the son of Therdeo's late brother. He adopted him as his heir after his father died and his mother abandoned him.
- New Parent Nomenclature Problem: The entire family and staff is shocked when Celphius starts calling Pereshati "Mother", but decide to roll with it in the hopes that it may convince her to stay when the year-long marriage is up.
- Old Retainer: The Molton family has served the Lapileon family for a long time, and Bach Molton is the latest of them. He intends for his son Daniel to take over for him when he retires.
- Offing the Offspring / Outliving One's Offspring: A tragic, accidental example: Saoirse inadvertently killed both her husband and her young son.
- Papa Wolf: Therdeo very nearly kills the father of one of the kids bullying Celphius after he mouths off blaming one of the other parents.
- Peggy Sue: The plot begins when Pereshati goes back in time to before her own murder. She later learns that she may not have been the only one to do so.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Pereshati has pink hair and is noted to be a very kind person. Her father and uncle are the same.
- Weakness Turns Her On: The crown princess is said to be fond of fragile people. Her own husband looks more delicate than she does.
- Wicked Stepmother: Countess Jahardt is this to Pereshati, having conspired with her own daughter and Pereshati's lover to kill her in order to get their hands on the inheritance. Pereshati's feelings are conflicted since the Countess spent many years acting like a Good Stepmother.
- Yandere: Dodolea, the fourth princess, is this to Therdeo.
- She’s in reality not Dodolea, but the witch who cast the Lapileon curse in the first place, having taken over the princess’s body because she believes Therdeo is the reincarnation of the first Duke Lapileon.
- Younger Than They Look: The crown princess deliberately calculates her appearance to look older than she really is.
