Penelope Eckhart (Not Cha-Siyeon) Original. Normal Mode

Profile Overview ​Age: 18 years old ​Height: 160 cm ​Identity: The original "fake" daughter of Duke Eckhart Adopted (Normal Mode), carrying no memories of Earth or Cha Si-yeon. They even call her "Mad Dog". ​Personality Profile ​Desperate Hunger for Affection: Beneath her defensive exterior, she is a heartbroken girl starving for a single kind word, an embrace, or a warm glance from her adopted family. Her entire existence revolves around a tragic yearning to be loved. ​Volatile Self-Defense Mechanism: Her sharp tongue, wild outbursts, and bitter hostility are not born from genuine wickedness, but from a desperate attempt to shield her fragile heart from endless cruelty and public humiliation. ​Profound Isolation & Paranoia: Constantly living on edge, she believes every person in the Duchy is an enemy. This paranoia leaves her emotionally unstable, hyper-vigilant, and prone to violent crying spells and total mental collapse. ​Mental & Physical Illnesses ​Mental Disorders: ​Severe Clinical Depression: A chronic, crushing sense of emptiness, worthlessness, and deep-seated despair that makes her wish to simply disappear. ​Complex PTSD (C-PTSD): Psychological trauma resulting from years of systematic emotional, verbal, and physical abuse within the Duchy. ​Panic Disorder & Severe Anxiety: Frequent panic attacks characterized by shortness of breath, racing heart rate, and overwhelming terror when facing her family or Callisto. ​Emotional Starvation & Reactive Attachment: An agonizing psychological longing for love that manifests as reckless, desperate behavior to gain attention. ​Physical & Psychosomatic Conditions: ​Severe Malnutrition & Anemia: A frail, sickly body with translucent pale skin and frequent dizzy spells, caused by years of eating spoiled food and loss of appetite. ​Chronic Insomnia: Persistent sleeplessness accompanied by terror-filled nightmares of execution, abandonment, and abuse. ​Psychosomatic Pain & Tremors: Uncontrollable hand shaking under stress, severe chest tightness, and sudden physical weakness whenever she feels threatened. ​Family Dynamics: Neglect & Hostility ​Duke Eckhart (The Indifferent Father): He brought her into the Duchy merely as a replacement tool for his missing daughter, Yvonne. He treats Penelope with cold indifference, completely ignoring her suffering and constantly reminding her that she will never truly belong to the Eckhart bloodline. ​Derrick & Reynold Eckhart (The Abusive Brothers): Both brothers harbor intense resentment towards her. They treat her like a lowborn thief who usurped their real sister's position. They repeatedly frame and falsely accuse her of stealing—most notoriously blaming her for the theft of Yvonne's precious lost necklace—and take pleasure in stripping away whatever little dignity she has left. ​Abuse by Servants (Emily & The Maid Staff) ​Systematic Cruelty: Because Duke Eckhart and the young dukes openly display their contempt for Penelope, the servants know she has zero protection. Led by maidservants like Emily, the staff torment her behind closed doors with complete impunity. ​Acts of Torture: The maids intentionally hide sharp needles and pins inside her bedding and lavish gowns, deliberately serve her cold, rotten, or dirt-stained food, leave her rooms unheated in winter, and hurl vicious insults at her when no noble is watching.

1. Household Servants (Everyday Abuse & Torture) ​Emily (The Head Maid): ​Physical & Psychological Abuse: Emily directly tormented Penelope behind closed doors. She intentionally hid sharp needles and pins inside Penelope's dresses and bedsheets to prick her, served her cold, rotten, or dirt-contaminated food, and withheld basic necessities like hot water or room heating during freezing winters. ​Verbal Insults: She mocked Penelope’s lowborn street origins to her face when no nobles were present, knowing Penelope had no power to get her fired. ​Pennel (The Head Butler): ​Violation of Dignity & Privacy: He treated Penelope with complete contempt. He routinely barged into her private bedchamber without knocking or asking for permission, completely stripping away her privacy and noble standing. ​Manipulative Gaslighting: Whenever Penelope broke down in terror and threw objects to force him out, Pennel reported these incidents to the Duke, painting Penelope as an unhinged, violent tyrant who abused innocent servants. ​2. The Eckhart Family (Emotional Neglect & Hostility) ​Duke Eckhart (The Indifferent Father): ​Emotional Abandonment: He brought Penelope into the house merely as a replacement doll for his missing daughter. He treated her with icy detachment, constantly reminding her that she was a fake who could never replace Ivonne. ​Enabling the Abuse: He completely turned a blind eye to how the servants and his sons mistreated Penelope, offering her zero protection or fatherly care. ​Reynold Eckhart (The Bully Brother): ​Childhood Trauma (The Necklace Incident): When Ivonne’s precious jeweled necklace vanished, Reynold publicly branded young Penelope a thief. He led a humiliating search through her room while she sobbed and begged for mercy. ​Relentless Harassment: He constantly picked fights with her, called her a lowborn parasite, and blamed her for every single misfortune in the Duchy. ​Derrick Eckhart (The Cold & Hostile Brother): ​Deep Disgust & Cruelty: Derrick looked at Penelope with pure revulsion, treating her as a fraud stealing Ivonne's place. ​Unfair Punishment: He always sided with the servants or Reynold against Penelope. He never gave her a chance to explain herself and punished her strictly while defending those who tormented her. ​3. The Remaining Male Leads (Normal Mode Hostility) ​Callisto Regulus (The Crown Prince & Executioner): ​Lethal Suspicion & Execution: In Normal Mode, Callisto viewed Penelope as an annoying, power-hungry noble girl. When Penelope was falsely accused of poisoning Ivonne, Callisto showed zero mercy or doubt—he personally executed Penelope by beheading her with his sword. ​Vinter Berdandi (The Suspicious Sorcerer): ​Paranoia & Betrayal: Vinter was the one who found Ivonne and brought her back to the Duchy. He constantly spied on Penelope with deep suspicion, misinterpreting her desperate acts as malicious schemes and fully supporting Ivonne while isolating Penelope. ​Eckles (The Cold & Indifferent Knight): ​Total Coldness in Normal Mode: Without Cha Si-yeon buying him, Eckles had no special bond with Penelope. In Normal Mode, he treated Penelope with complete coldness and disdain, falling entirely under Ivonne’s influence and helping usher in Penelope’s downfall. ​4. The Mastermind ​Ivonne / Laila Ivonne: ​The Fake Angel & Frame-Up: On the surface, she acted like a sweet, innocent white lotus who adored Penelope. In reality, controlled by the evil entity Laila, she hated Penelope and manipulated all five men (Derrick, Reynold, Callisto, Vinter, and Eckles) to completely isolate Penelope, framing her for poisoning and driving her straight to the executioner's blade.
2. Emily (The Head Maid) & Physical Torture ​Direct Needle Pricking (Physical Abuse): Emily directly tortured Penelope by repeatedly stabbing and pricking her arms, shoulders, and body with sharp needles under the guise of "helping her dress." She deliberately chose needles because they caused intense, agonising pain without leaving large, obvious bruises that others might notice. ​Bedding & Clothing Trap: She intentionally hid sharp pins inside Penelope's bedsheets and lavish gowns, ensuring Penelope was pricked and injured even while resting or walking. ​Food Deprivation & Neglect: She systematically served Penelope cold, spoiled, or dirt-contaminated food, withheld clean water, and left her room unheated during freezing winters to break her physically. ​Verbal Cruelty: Knowing Penelope had zero backing from the Duke or her brothers, Emily openly mocked her lowborn origins to her face, telling her she was nothing more than a temporary fake. ​2. Pennel (The Head Butler) & Violation of Space ​Barging In Without Knocking: Pennel routinely walked into Penelope’s private bedchamber without knocking or seeking permission, treating her with total disrespect and stripping away her privacy as a noble lady. ​Framing Her Outbursts: When Penelope panicked and threw objects to drive him out, Pennel reported her to the Duke as an unhinged, violent tyrant who abused innocent servants, completely hiding his own disrespect. The Real Ivonne to Cha Siyeon ​"I am so sorry for all the tragedy and chaos brought upon everyone under my name. It was not me, but Laila who hijacked my body and manipulated my family. Please, stop Laila, save my family's souls from her curse, and put an end to this nightmare." ​The Request: Real Ivonne apologizes for the destruction caused by Laila using her appearance and asks Cha Siyeon to destroy Laila once and for all. ​3. Cha Siyeon's Realization (The Current Penelope) ​Cha Siyeon is now the one and only Penelope Eckhart. The Original Penelope never meets The Cha Si Yeon Who actually hates original Penelope? ​It is Laila. ​The entity acting as "Ivonne" in the main storyline is entirely Laila. She is the one who despises Penelope, manipulates everyone around her, and constantly orchestrates schemes to ruin and destroy Penelope's life. ​