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Let's begin on a positive note, the art is good, the ML is great, and Ginger, the protagonist, seems cute. That's it, I can't think of anything else. The premise and the beginning of the story are fine, I became quickly interested because it's honestly a quite unique setting, since Lerazie doesn't seem like a typical, purely evil antagonist from most of the fantasy romance manhwas, and actually has her own thoughts and desires. Unfortunately, this is all ruined by Gigner's blatant, forced idiocy.

If Ginger were a "clumsy, slightly airheaded girl", this would be readable. However, she's instead an irredeemable cretin.
Apart from the fact that ... she often skips the obvious solution and goes to the worst one, she's a prime example of a forcibly stupid protagonist. She can figure something out instantly, and then think "nah, can't be it", and completely forget about it until the conclusion of the whole thing. This practice of exposition by spoon-feeding readers information about the plot using the protagonist's thoughts and then making the protagonist forget about it to make it seem like they're a "clumsy, slightly airheaded girl", is a terrible practice that pretty much became a trend for manhwa authors. I could bear with it if it appeared only occasionally, but it's used literally every time something happens. Ginger always figures everything out instantly, and then instantly dismisses it, forgetting about it completely. What is this supposed to be, is she temporarily turning into a genius and then suffers from a short-term memory loss? Not every protagonist has to be a genius, but even stupid characters have to be written well, which she's quite obviously not.

TLDR: The author uses the system as a deus ex machina, her powers are nearly useless and she doesn't even use them, or uses them in a completely inconsequential way (at least up to this point), and her knowledge of RF (romantic fantasy) novels doesn't come into play at all.

~~ Spoilers from this point on ~~

Deus ex machina issue:
The author very much likes to assign mandatory missions to the protagonist using the system. Mandatory as in, either do it or die. Apart from that, early on, as a penalty for failing a quest, MC starts losing control of her body randomly, in those instances, she ... behaves like a regular baby. The author uses both of these things to make MC behave like she wouldn't normally and force the plot to progress in certain ways.

Powers:
MC's promised powers manifested in form of a system, which she can use to buy powers of protagonists of RF novels she read before. However, if there are multiple powers, only one will be extracted at random, there are limits to number of uses and even the powers themselves can be massively weakened because of system's whim.

Knowledge of RF novels:
From the beginning, MC isn't able to recognize even the most basic tropes when they actually matter, only using the knowledge she was supposed to have to show that the author is self-aware that his work isn't really groundbreaking, like making jokes about her father, the duke, being the "classic emotionless duke of the north". In my opinion, her knowledge of novels was added solely because the author needed it for the power system to work, since it doesn't have impact on the story in any other way.

Here's the premise of the arc containing MC's first usage of powers with as little spoilers as possible:
MC gets a quest from the system asking her to get revenge, with the penalty being increased probability of losing control of her body randomly. MC decides to accept the quest and uses the system to acquire new power allowing her to read target's emotions and thoughts. However, the power has only five uses lasting three hours, and gets downgraded to only reading emotions because "This is a dropped novel and the system isn't familiar with it". The power itself ends up being completely useless anyway, and the author just uses it to show just how mad the revenge target is using some poor jokes.

It looks like the author wants to have the cake and eat it, so he uses deus ex machina to achieve it.
- MC is a reincarnated adult, but she doesn't behave and think like one 90% of the time. When she actually would behave like one and the author doesn't want her too, he just makes use of the penalty system making her lose control of her body and act like a regular child.
- MC "read thousands of RF novels", which is used to make use of her power, but is incapable of actually recognizing tropes when they matter. A prime example of that can be seen at the very beginning - MC is abused by her uncle and her cousin, and she says that if this was a novel, her cousin would obviously be the beloved protagonist. So the obvious protagonist of a romantic fantasy novel is someone abusing their cousin on daily basis, and not the abused cousin, who is daughter of a powerful duke?

In conclusion, everything in this story seems kind of forced and I wouldn't recommend it, but if you just want to read something with a cute girl as a protagonist then it isn't the worst choice.