Daisy Heidi is a humble commoner who knows far more about the world than anyone else, and for good reason—she helped create it! In her previous life, Daisy and nine of her friends co-wrote Why Did the Duke's Daughter Roll Across the Pumpkin Patch?, a tragic story about a young noblewoman named Pierta and her ten handsome suitors.
Things take a turn when Daisy unexpectedly meets Duke Dane Henstone, Pierta's father, and ends up telling him everything about the world she helped create and Pierta's role in it. Upon learning of his daughter's intended fate, Dane immediately resolves to use Daisy and her knowledge to send the story Off the Rails and protect Pierta's happiness.
Tricked Into Becoming the Heroine's Stepmother is adapted from MOKGAMGI's original story by EEESANSEE, is illustrated by HARIHEEN and available in English on Webtoon.
Examples:
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Pierta only allows people she likes to pat her fluffy hair.
- Affectionate Nickname: Daisy often refers to Pierta as Little Chestnut.
- Author Appeal: In-Universe. Daisy and her friends wrote their individual suitors according to their tastes in men.
- Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Dane goes to great lengths to keep ensure that Pierta will never meet the suitors she had in the book. For instance, when it comes to her would-be tutor, Dane sponsors his father's research abroad so the kid will not only grow up in another country, but won't have the financial struggles that drove him to become a young noblewoman's tutor in the first place.
- Boyish Short Hair: Contrasting with the Long Hair Is Feminine the grown-up Pierta in the book had, little Pierta has a short, fluffy haircut that instantly reminds Daisy of chestnut fuzz.
- Freudian Excuse: It's implied that the original Pierta growing up surrounded by adults who told her to be traditionally feminine and that a woman's worth is dependent on her finding a good husband is what led to her behavior in the novel.
- Happily Adopted: Pierta is biologically Dane's niece, something that surprises Daisy since that detail wasn't in the novel. Dane sees Pierta as his daughter no matter what.
- Kick the Dog: Dane and Daisy first meet when he accuses her of stealing a necklace she had spent all of her savings on at an auction. Dane crushes the necklace underfoot while demanding to know the truth, intimidating Daisy into telling him all about the world and her role in its creation. He later has the necklace repaired and returns it to her, along with an apology for how he treated her that day.
- Location Theme Naming: One of the authors named the elements of the story she worked on after places she wanted to go on vacation, like Santorini or Maldives.
- The Matchmaker: Pierta schemes and plots to ensure that Daisy and her father fall in love and get married. She quickly ropes Hadi in on the matchmaking as well.
- Media Transmigration: Daisy is reincarnated as a commoner in a book she helped write about a Duke's daughter who seduces multiple men. After a run-in with the main character's adoptive father, she reveals her knowledge of the world and the story. The Duke then hires her and makes her tell him about his daughter Petra's suitors, who are fighting for her in the book. The Duke uses what she tells him and his connections to keep the suitors away from Petra, who is only a little girl now, before they fall in love with and start vying for her and prevent Petra's tragic end.
- Off the Rails: What Daisy and Dane are trying to achieve by making sure Pierta and her suitors never meet.
- Samus Is a Girl: The current leader of the criminal guild is the mother of one of Pierta's future suitors.
