Responses
Say why did he fall for her? Was she good to him in the past?
At first he was mesmerised by her portrait, but he met her in person just few time after her banishment and fell for hers humanly ways of treating him. And when she died in first timeline he died too
I read this novel, so to clear doubts, he has had his past memories from the start, just pretending not to know anything ╮(￣▽￣)╭