I think she got all pretty so that Ares could pretend(she doesn't know he's already in love with her lol) in front of her brother and compliment her and act like he's falling for her (but he wasn't saying or doing anything so she was getting mad that he wasn't going along with the plan) so her brother wouldn't think their relationship came out of nowhere and be all suspicious
Oh, it makes all the sense now that you put it like that...I feel so dumb for not realizing earlier ><
No worries I can see why you thought that when they don't make it really clear
It's been a while since I last read this, so I'm sure I'll have to go back and re read it from the begin again, but in the mean time, as far as I can remember, didn't Alicia and Ares have already some kind of agreement on getting married and were just trying to figure out how to break the news to Kai? So what's with the last chapter and Alicia trying to make Ares "fall" for her?