I don't even know where this story is going. It's like watching a car crash in slow motion, or a dumpster fire.
Anyway, for context about this scene, the FMC is about to get married. But she has an obsession, and I mean a genuine obsession, with her stepmother, who has the green hair.
Her stepmother has complex feelings regarding the FMC, since the FMC has the power to temporarily charm/control people she kisses, and she's worried because the FMC has used, and is willing to use, that power on her adopted family.
So in the scene above, the FMC isn't trying to scare her stepmother; she's just looking for validation. Mind you, the FMC wouldn't have even gone through with the marriage if her stepmother hadn't talked her into it in an attempt to get her away from the family.
But anyway, when the FMC sees that her stepmother is terrified of her, she starts to crash out, while her soon-to-be husband starts connecting the dots between what he's seen and what the FMC's brothers have told him.
The craziest part about all of this is that the FMC actually does like the husband, but every time you think she's becoming more normal, she just snaps right back onto the stepmother the second she enters her field of view.
I don't want to completely spoil things, but here are a few examples of how obsessed the FMC is:
- When she first discovered she had the power to charm people she kissed, the second she laid eyes on her stepmother, she kissed her to try and charm her into loving her. But the power doesn't work on women.
- Another time, the FMC and her fiancé, the soon-to-be husband, were in bed together, and I kid you not, the FMC was imagining her stepmother was there watching.
- The FMC has kissed her stepmother multiple times, even after learning the power doesn't work on her, and has made deals with her for the sole purpose of them bathing together and spending time with one another.
So yeah...