Our take
The setup
Given a second life, the heroine tries to free herself from a demanding first husband by proposing marriage to a duke rumored to be impotent. The rumor turns out to be entirely false, leaving her tangled in a new deception of her own making.
Why read it
For fans of
The heroine of「騙されて溺愛再婚しました!」is living her life for the second time, and she has learned enough from the first round to want out of a marriage that wears her down. Her first husband's demands leave her looking for an exit, and she finds one in the form of a duke who is widely rumored to be impotent. Marrying him, she reasons, should mean peace and distance rather than another round of the same trouble.
That plan collapses almost immediately. The duke's reputation turns out to be nothing like the man himself, and the heroine finds herself married to someone far more attentive and energetic than she bargained for. Her outrage at being, in her own words, the victim of marriage fraud, is less about cruelty than about having her careful plan completely upended.
What makes this premise enjoyable is the heroine's clear-eyed, somewhat weary perspective on her own situation. She is not a passive figure swept along by fate; she makes a calculated choice to escape one marriage and lands, through no fault of her own, in another she did not expect. Readers who enjoy reborn heroines who think strategically rather than simply endure will find her frustration and dry commentary appealing.
At its core, the story asks whether a woman given a second chance at life can actually find happiness the second time around, even when her plans keep going sideways. The humor comes from the gap between what she expects and what she gets, while the underlying question of whether this new marriage might actually work in her favor keeps the situation from being purely comic. It is a premise built on reversal and misread expectations, carried by a heroine who notices exactly how absurd her own situation has become.
9 volumes in print / Volume 1 to the latest
Spoilers through Vol.10
Official synopsis
"I heard he was impotent...?" Olivia has started her second life. In this lifetime, while she spends her days playing the role of a surrogate daughter-in-law, she decides to escape from a husband who is even overly sexually active. She proposed marriage to Duke Tyrone, who was rumored to be impotent, but when they actually got married, far from being impotent, he was a very skilled, super-virile man...! "This is a scam, I've been marriage-scammed!" Olivia is depressed again today with her second virile husband. Will she be able to find happiness in her second life?
Official synopsis
"I heard he was impotent...?" Olivia has started her second life. In this lifetime, while she spends her days playing the role of a surrogate daughter-in-law, she decides to escape from a husband who is even overly sexually active. She proposed marriage to Duke Tyrone, who was rumored to be impotent, but when they actually got married, far from being impotent, he was a very skilled, super-virile man...! "This is a scam, I've been marriage-scammed!" Olivia is depressed again today with her second virile husband. Will she be able to find happiness in her second life?
Official synopsis
"I heard he was impotent...?" Olivia has started her second life. In this lifetime, while she spends her days playing the role of a surrogate daughter-in-law, she decides to escape from a husband who is even overly sexually active. She proposed marriage to Duke Tyrone, who was rumored to be impotent, but when they actually got married, far from being impotent, he was a very skilled, super-virile man...! "This is a scam, I've been marriage-scammed!" Olivia is depressed again today with her second virile husband. Will she be able to find happiness in her second life?
Official synopsis
"I heard he was impotent...?" Olivia, the protagonist, experiences her second life. In this life, she is determined to escape a husband with an insatiable libido while living a married life as a proxy for filial piety. She proposed marriage to Duke Tyrone, who was rumored to be impotent, but upon marrying, she discovered that this man was anything but impotent—he was a very skilled, sexually vigorous man...!! "This is fraud, I've been a victim of marriage fraud!" Olivia is depressed again today with her second, overly vigorous husband. Will she ever be happy in her second life?
Official synopsis
"I heard he was impotent...?" Olivia, the protagonist, experiences her second life. In this life, she is determined to escape a husband with an insatiable libido while living a married life as a proxy for filial piety. She proposed marriage to Duke Tyrone, who was rumored to be impotent, but upon marrying, she discovered that this man was anything but impotent—he was a very skilled, sexually vigorous man...!! "This is fraud, I've been a victim of marriage fraud!" Olivia is depressed again today with her second, overly vigorous husband. Will she ever be happy in her second life?
Official synopsis
"I heard he was impotent...?" Olivia, the protagonist, experiences her second life. In this life, she is determined to escape a husband with an insatiable libido while living a married life as a proxy for filial piety. She proposed marriage to Duke Tyrone, who was rumored to be impotent, but upon marrying, she discovered that this man was anything but impotent—he was a very skilled, sexually vigorous man...!! "This is fraud, I've been a victim of marriage fraud!" Olivia is depressed again today with her second, overly vigorous husband. Will she ever be happy in her second life?
Official synopsis
"I heard he was impotent...?" Olivia, the protagonist, experiences her second life. In this life, she is determined to escape a husband with an insatiable libido while living a married life as a proxy for filial piety. She proposed marriage to Duke Tyrone, who was rumored to be impotent, but upon marrying, she discovered that this man was anything but impotent—he was a very skilled, sexually vigorous man...!! "This is fraud, I've been a victim of marriage fraud!" Olivia is depressed again today with her second, overly vigorous husband. Will she ever be happy in her second life?
Official synopsis
"I heard he was impotent...?" Olivia, the protagonist, experiences her second life. In this life, she is determined to escape a husband with an insatiable libido while living a married life as a proxy for filial piety. She proposed marriage to Duke Tyrone, who was rumored to be impotent, but upon marrying, she discovered that this man was anything but impotent—he was a very skilled, sexually vigorous man...!! "This is fraud, I've been a victim of marriage fraud!" Olivia is depressed again today with her second, overly vigorous husband. Will she ever be happy in her second life?