Honestly, the main issues I have with the Current Prince are not Former Princes' actions. The five of them are;
1. The fact that regardless of what his current state aristia is still traumatised.
2. Aristias' lack of will to wed him and the mismatch of her current ambitions, aswell as all the work she put in to reach such a point.
3. That she must wind up with him even though she has other options that have been built up and worked upon.
4. That the goddess' child, the Princes love interest, will still come. She is not an abandoned character.
5. That I'd have wasted so much time reading and enjoying a very good story with great characters and many interesting life paths, only for her to wind up locked into the position she so hated and tried to escape. It makes the whole thing feel kind of pointless. The trope of the girl winding up with someone she was hurt by is bad enough without all that potential being worked on and thrown away.
Yeah I agree with all of those, I don't want her to end up with him either. I personally ship her with Carsein. This was dedicated to all the people that hated his character, not the ship. Also yeah I know Jieun is not an abandoned character, when she shows up she will be the villain for a while, but I am hoping that the prince won't become ruthless again. He can be with her for all I care lol
God does nobody know about the butterfly effect? It's exactly because Aristia changed herself and her destiny that everybody and everything changed. The events and their timeline, as well as the characters and their personalities all changed. We should judge the prince in this timeline now and he is good so far. The ultimate test for his character development will be when Jieun appears and how he will act then. And also since Aristia changed why can't the prince change too? Even Allendis and Carsein changed and developed at even earlier age because of Aristia. So all of you shouldn't hate but let the story go and judge his character at the end OR when he really does something bad in this timeline