Someone please make it make sense to me

She picked Klein, the red-head red flag out of all the candidates.

Klein, who looked for her because she’s his only connection to his first love.

Klein, who always gives her flowers, which are the most and literally useless gifts she’s ever received.

Klein, who got her those earrings that made the enemy queen so mad that she sent meteors that killed her friend.

Klein, who opened up to her and admitted that he was scared of losing himself, which she relates to and influenced her choice.

Klein who always tells her he loves her, which she saw through in the beginning, but started believing in it after hearing it so many times.

Did the author get confused and mix up the brother role? Because that was the most obvious role for him—just why when he deserved to be bro-zoned the most. They literally had the weakest connection.

I know that they said her soul was the most similar to Ash, but it turns out that they had similar taste in faces as well.

I know that Mio was the most normal guy out of all of them with actual common sense, but did they really have to do that to him?

He met her first, confessed his feelings last. Doesn’t that make his confession more meaningful than someone who says it so easily? (But then again, Klein really was devoted to her, and words of affirmation are her love language ig)

He was with her at the end, but couldn’t be with her?

I knew he was the underdog, but after seeing all that he’s done for Ash and doesn’t get anything because he’s a normie still hurts. (Spoilers that he will come back in the side stories, but still)

Also in the beginning she did wish to transmigrate into a story, understandably didn’t like it, said she didn’t believe in fairy tales, learned about love, and still picked the prince on a white horse aka the only guy with love drama aka the worst choice lol

I would’ve preferred the magician over him. Heck, I would’ve taken the queen over him (doomed yuri, anyone?)

If only she had kissed Mio at the end, it would’ve been a million times better for me. That poor man worked so hard for nothing, god dammit.

TLDR: I’m just someone who’s not the biggest fan of “replacement lovers”. Or the idea moving on to someone close by who also knew the one who’s passed on. I’m not delulu to want him to stay loyal to his first love, but I really, really don’t think he deserved to be end game. Maybe if they had cut back on his feelings for his first love would I probably be okay with it, but it felt like such a big deal that it feels wrong.

I.e. First love was teenage youth, and now that he’s older then it’s his second chance at love. Idk, the pacing/presentation just didn’t feel like enough time had passed even though it has been a few years until he finally found Ash. And it wasn’t even the original Ash.

Actually, if it was the original Ash, then she probably would’ve been able to bro zone because she liked his brother LOL

But then she wouldn’t have gotten involved with Mio, or saved Ciel, so we wouldn’t have gotten this story - it would’ve been something else: Two brothers fighting over a girl. One is her crush who married someone else because politics, while the other is her dead bestie’s lover who wants to keep her memories alive.

In that context, I could probably accept them getting together because they can’t have their first loves haha

But after all that MC learned about love and development, still it feels like a wrong turn was made somewhere in her quest for it.

*Since I’ve managed to convince someone to drop this series, allow me to offer a different maid story: Hiding My True Self aka I Mistook the Submale lead

At least the FL there does have feelings flashbacks about the ML while this miss was like “I like hot guys and gifts”. Although second ML syndrome didn’t hit me that hard.