there's 30 chapters out and it's fairly good LONG LONG SPOILERS:
2nd prince: the prince has a redemption arc. he was basically raised in a twisted manner by his rather terrible mother & took a huge misstep in power tripping when he snapped at mc once n shit spiraled from there. he sincerely regrets it later and is constantly haunted by her memories and his love for her and wishing he could go back to that exact moment and apologize for snapping instead of becoming the dark lord he became rip. he finds out about his families past and actually steps in to make it right and helps mc & his brother. he takes down his mother partially to protect mc. this dudes just got a lot of short straws and suffering lol. author, for a huge change -like 1/1000-, made me not hate this dude in the end.
ml/clifford: as we all guessed; he's the 'deceased' 1st prince. he was framed -or his mother was- by his brothers mother as being an illegitimate child borne from an affair between his mother and her escort knight -who had red hair-. he grew up basically being treated poorly and he was terribly bitter as a child due to it -can't be helped-. he was still not a total shit tho. fell in love with mc at first sight when he saw his brother & her playing -they were already engaged- and he knew he'd love her for life and suffer watching them because he couldn't risk her hatred if he worked to steal her when they grew up. so he chose to abandon his royal identity and go live a much happier life as the margrave?s son. he really did end up choosing well because he got to experience actual familiar love and a true childhood. he still always thought about mc and was also haunted by nightmares of his time in the palace but he grew up well despite that. entered the academy & thought he'd see the 2 sharing a happy relationship still but to his surprise he found his brother had changed and mc had become despondent so he decided to be her support -and when shit fell through; take his time before shooting his shot-
mc: moves on from her fiance fast after his repeated bs. really grows through her friendship with those 2 girls and ml. gains more and more friends along the way and truly starts to live happily for a change. already got some feels for ml. tries to break off her engagement unsuccessfully. has to deal with more of fiance's lies and weird yandere actions. baits him into slapping her at a ball and uses it to break the engagement. has to deal with her ex-fiances wild mother who tries to have her 'sullied' after drugging her. falls for ml pretty quickly but they take it generally rather slow. it's not a terrible tempo. gets a genuine apology and confession from ex-fiance after him and ml sort of the crazy mother shit but -as ex-fiance knows- she's already dating ml at this point so she thanks him, says it's comforting to hear and will help ease some of her darker memories, and rejects him. she gets engaged to ml.
king and royal consort/crazy mother: kings an idiot lol. lightly 'dating' the obvious villainess consort in school days -but no actual love there just that they get along n he generally likes her- then ~political marriage~ he says he'd rather marry villainess so she proposes being his consort. he meets ml's mother his political marriage partner and instantly falls in love. villainess lives the bitter life. gross king keeps her as his consort while unashamedly calling out his actual wifes name in his sleep with her. lots of ick. wife gets preggo but dies giving birth because she was too frail. villainess finds out she's also knocked up so she takes the chance to threaten dead wife's maid into lying about the /now motherless/ ml's origins. king believes it and treats his son like a bastard. later on when it's all revealed he says some shit -in front of both sons- about how he should have never sent him off and should have appointed him crown prince. he tells him if he ever changes his mind -ml was like nah i'm not coming back to this shit hole- he can always tell him and he'll be reinstated as a prince -king slightly hoping he'd get to make him crown prince-. ofc ex-fiance 2nd prince is hurt by that but doesn't hate his brother. they talk. ml tells him he doesn't wanna be a prince n that mc protected his status because she still cares for him. 2nd prince calls ml 'older brother'
around chapter 26ish we enter an odd arc where it's some stolen necklace i guess -i lost interest; the arc is dumb- and I WAS TOTALLY LIKE AS LONG AS EX-FIANCE DOESN'T MARRY THAT COMMONER GIRL WE OK. no. i'd rather it be her now. please. like she can't control herself for shit but she did own up and apologize to mc when she saw ex-fiance's true colors. but like during this arc it looks like they're trying to establish a new love for the ex-fiance and it's the most PATHETIC GIRL. they got lazy here. dark, gloomy, abused, old clothes, suicidal, mystery, mystery, more mystery. feel bad for her yall. while she glares at mc from the shadows. pity herrrrrr. rip.
this is still ongoing too lol. so mb she won't be end game -hopefully-
there's 30 chapters out and it's fairly good
LONG LONG SPOILERS:
2nd prince: the prince has a redemption arc. he was basically raised in a twisted manner by his rather terrible mother & took a huge misstep in power tripping when he snapped at mc once n shit spiraled from there. he sincerely regrets it later and is constantly haunted by her memories and his love for her and wishing he could go back to that exact moment and apologize for snapping instead of becoming the dark lord he became rip. he finds out about his families past and actually steps in to make it right and helps mc & his brother. he takes down his mother partially to protect mc. this dudes just got a lot of short straws and suffering lol. author, for a huge change -like 1/1000-, made me not hate this dude in the end.
ml/clifford: as we all guessed; he's the 'deceased' 1st prince. he was framed -or his mother was- by his brothers mother as being an illegitimate child borne from an affair between his mother and her escort knight -who had red hair-. he grew up basically being treated poorly and he was terribly bitter as a child due to it -can't be helped-. he was still not a total shit tho. fell in love with mc at first sight when he saw his brother & her playing -they were already engaged- and he knew he'd love her for life and suffer watching them because he couldn't risk her hatred if he worked to steal her when they grew up. so he chose to abandon his royal identity and go live a much happier life as the margrave?s son. he really did end up choosing well because he got to experience actual familiar love and a true childhood. he still always thought about mc and was also haunted by nightmares of his time in the palace but he grew up well despite that. entered the academy & thought he'd see the 2 sharing a happy relationship still but to his surprise he found his brother had changed and mc had become despondent so he decided to be her support -and when shit fell through; take his time before shooting his shot-
mc: moves on from her fiance fast after his repeated bs. really grows through her friendship with those 2 girls and ml. gains more and more friends along the way and truly starts to live happily for a change. already got some feels for ml. tries to break off her engagement unsuccessfully. has to deal with more of fiance's lies and weird yandere actions. baits him into slapping her at a ball and uses it to break the engagement. has to deal with her ex-fiances wild mother who tries to have her 'sullied' after drugging her. falls for ml pretty quickly but they take it generally rather slow. it's not a terrible tempo. gets a genuine apology and confession from ex-fiance after him and ml sort of the crazy mother shit but -as ex-fiance knows- she's already dating ml at this point so she thanks him, says it's comforting to hear and will help ease some of her darker memories, and rejects him. she gets engaged to ml.
king and royal consort/crazy mother: kings an idiot lol. lightly 'dating' the obvious villainess consort in school days -but no actual love there just that they get along n he generally likes her- then ~political marriage~ he says he'd rather marry villainess so she proposes being his consort. he meets ml's mother his political marriage partner and instantly falls in love. villainess lives the bitter life. gross king keeps her as his consort while unashamedly calling out his actual wifes name in his sleep with her. lots of ick. wife gets preggo but dies giving birth because she was too frail. villainess finds out she's also knocked up so she takes the chance to threaten dead wife's maid into lying about the /now motherless/ ml's origins. king believes it and treats his son like a bastard. later on when it's all revealed he says some shit -in front of both sons- about how he should have never sent him off and should have appointed him crown prince. he tells him if he ever changes his mind -ml was like nah i'm not coming back to this shit hole- he can always tell him and he'll be reinstated as a prince -king slightly hoping he'd get to make him crown prince-. ofc ex-fiance 2nd prince is hurt by that but doesn't hate his brother. they talk. ml tells him he doesn't wanna be a prince n that mc protected his status because she still cares for him. 2nd prince calls ml 'older brother'
around chapter 26ish we enter an odd arc where it's some stolen necklace i guess -i lost interest; the arc is dumb- and I WAS TOTALLY LIKE AS LONG AS EX-FIANCE DOESN'T MARRY THAT COMMONER GIRL WE OK. no. i'd rather it be her now. please. like she can't control herself for shit but she did own up and apologize to mc when she saw ex-fiance's true colors. but like during this arc it looks like they're trying to establish a new love for the ex-fiance and it's the most PATHETIC GIRL. they got lazy here. dark, gloomy, abused, old clothes, suicidal, mystery, mystery, more mystery. feel bad for her yall. while she glares at mc from the shadows. pity herrrrrr. rip.
this is still ongoing too lol. so mb she won't be end game -hopefully-