I think the plot is interesting, the FL has some strange incurable disease and knows when she’ll die and the OGML was written as a gentle knight that is “always” caring towards others even over his own needs/wants. When I read the title and summary I thought the FL would treat him terribly out of grief/anger that she was about to die after being transported to another world, slowly his morality would erode and he’d become more villainous. Nope, turns out his parents did some preventive conditioning so that he wouldn’t become I guess someone who treated everyone as an enemy with his guard-up or a sociopath. OGML has repressed his emotions/thoughts to the point where he ain’t sure what he wants nor if he has any aspirations. The OGFL had a rose-glass tinted love story with the OGML without getting to the root of who he was…at least the FL whose doomed to die realizes his words don’t match his feels. The people the OGML helps also are unappreciative and seem wasteful, they’d be at a loss for sure if he is true to his repressed self or can no longer maintain his conditioning. It made me sad that no one wants his true self but the FL, but like he said since she’s given up what will he do? I’m thinking he’ll offer someone else’s life/magic to cure her if her family wasn’t able to find one. I find his mask of “gentle knight” much more interesting then him actually being one.
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I think the plot is interesting, the FL has some strange incurable disease and knows when she’ll die and the OGML was written as a gentle knight that is “always” caring towards others even over his own needs/wants. When I read the title and summary I thought the FL would treat him terribly out of grief/anger that she was about to die after being transported to another world, slowly his morality would erode and he’d become more villainous. Nope, turns out his parents did some preventive conditioning so that he wouldn’t become I guess someone who treated everyone as an enemy with his guard-up or a sociopath. OGML has repressed his emotions/thoughts to the point where he ain’t sure what he wants nor if he has any aspirations. The OGFL had a rose-glass tinted love story with the OGML without getting to the root of who he was…at least the FL whose doomed to die realizes his words don’t match his feels. The people the OGML helps also are unappreciative and seem wasteful, they’d be at a loss for sure if he is true to his repressed self or can no longer maintain his conditioning. It made me sad that no one wants his true self but the FL, but like he said since she’s given up what will he do? I’m thinking he’ll offer someone else’s life/magic to cure her if her family wasn’t able to find one. I find his mask of “gentle knight” much more interesting then him actually being one.