I will note though that I think she needs to examine other people like ML’s family instead of focusing only on him
bru frr, how are people calling her stupid? Is she just being cautious about falling in love with the main suspect in her murder?? HELLOOO????
I feel like it’s especially harder to fall in love with him bc the crime is serial murder. Ik some people are like, she can’t always think he’s the killer just bc of a single line in the synopsis, but she’s literally a stepping stone for the novel main characters to fall in love. It looks clear to me that our ML is not the novel ML. She has no reason not to suspect that there might not be some hidden trauma, some second personality, etc. That makes him commit crime, even without remembering, because it’s so common in this kind of writing.
Because the death is on her wedding night and that the original MC never met with ML until then, she knows that her cause of death most likely is tied completely to the marriage itself, something she has no ability to change. Even if she gains more social power and can annul it with her wish, the serial killer might not be ML and instead someone taking advantage of the event to sneak in and kill her. It might not even be the actual serial killer but someone pretending to be them. She’s working with 3 crumbs of information, all of which might be wrong
She has no lead to that yet, so I don't think what she's doing right now is wrong. Plus she keeps getting targeted by so many other ppl that it means investigation even harder..
Can everyone have a bit of grace for MC? I don’t think she’s as dumb as everyone says she is, and I think the reactions are a bit excessive.
She’s probably super anxious about everything because she knows she’s supposed to killed but doesn’t know how, when (other than that it’s during her wedding night), everyone involved, or even the actual method. It’s obvious to us readers that the ML is not the killer, but she doesn’t get to see his inner thoughts or anything. We can read without worry but she literally has one chance to avoid being murdered by someone she might be falling for. She has to be careful ESPECIALLY because she’s dealing with a serial killer with no known motive. There’s countless real life of them looking perfectly normal on the surface but doing crazy gruesome stuff in private. The victims also don’t have a clear enough connection to push the evidence towards or against him being the killer, and she’s floated the idea of there being multiple perpetrators.
It’s also worth noting that the ML is not as blushing red outwardly, or at least not as often as we see. In the earlier chapters, we know that he’s flustered from all the compliments and stuff, but the MC shows no indication of it from her perspective. While we could say it’s confirmation bias, I think it’s more likely that the blushing is just an indicator to us about how he feels, especially because of what we see in her perspective and his reputation as a very cold person. I doubt there weren’t other people coming strongly onto him, and he’s not very strong against it.
Also, who says things like “your wrists are so thin, I could easily break them” or “seeing the men talk to you makes me want to kill them” (not exact, around Ch 40)? That’s such red flag behavior, AND she’s hearing it during a serial killer investigation. He does it every time she starts warming up to him. I’d be afraid too!
TLDR: MC is doing her best and it’s a good job imo. She literally has little to no connections and also no advanced forensic tools or camera footage to use