Beautifully said. Lerajie and Ginger's relationship is what I'm enjoying most. and even though it'll most likely only continue to degrade, in my heart they'll be becoming close ;-;
Also I have seen SO many times in BL plots how one dude steals the lovers from his rival because he was actually in love with the other guy. So when I read these kind of plots (childhood friends and rivals) i can't unsee the trope that at least one is secretly in love (づ￣ ³￣)づ
exactlyyyy !! echos of all the times I've seen those tropes call out to me as I read this. you and me buddy, we can keep the ship alive.
Actually I kinda ship Ginger with Lerajie together. I mean, Ginger seems to care more about Lerajie than about the prince, since her interest in him comes purely from the novel and from her anger of him ending up with Lerajie. Even when the Kiki dude proposed to her her first thought was to make Lerajie envious. Both of them have questionable behavior (Lerajie stealing Ginger's fiancee; Ginger wanting to steal her family heritage just to impede the prince, who she doesn't know anything about apart from being the male lead from a novel, from falling in love with Lerajie and fall in love with her instead. I mean, it was her dead grandpa's memory, not nice). This all seems more like a competition between them both rather than them actually caring for any romantic partner. Ginger acts like this not because she loves the prince (I mean, up until now she only knew about him because of the book), but because she wanna make Lerajie lose. And it seems to be the other way around too. I totally see a plot where they both do things all throughout the story just to annoy the other one until they realize they actually love each other and end up together in the end.