(Thesis in coming)
Honestly, yeah. Sovieshu is a pos but that made him have more dimension to his character, he has a lot of goals (granted, selfish ones) but he made much more expressions and showed more personality compared to Heinry “The good ML” who hasn’t really done anything but scheme to snatch Navier away and be cute and shy around her, while he does have his own moments of frustrations regarding his own kingdom, it feels shallow and harder to resonate with him because the cause of his troubles isn’t as upsetting as what Sovieshu had to face because of his flaws and terrible decisions, it made his character feel “human”
I’m going to assume the reason why it’s like that bc the point of the story is that so the MC, Navier, could get a break from the antagonists so they gave her a male lead that’s obedient and isn’t a hot mess like her ex so that she doesn’t have to deal with any more trouble, but that came with the price of Heinry’s character being a bit less interesting.
hate me for it, but navier had more chemistry with sovieshit than she will ever have with heinrey.