personally, I'd hate to see them friends as much as lovers because of how shitty he is. Even if the others spins this into some "he got bewitched " or some bullshit like that, I'd still hate him as much.
Here's to hoping she follows through and I don't end up dropping this manga like I did with a bunch of stories in this genre (with the abandoned empress being the worst for me)
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They will spin it in a way that the CP was brainwashed in his previous life. So the MC will have to forgive him.
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It's like the authors of these kind of stories cant bother to make a different ML. The same with Abandoned Empress. They downplayed the MC's PTSD like it's nothing.
I mean if it happened to me. I never would be able to feel safe with that person. Despite knowing he was brainwashed I still would have had a fear for that person. Because PTSD just doesn't go away because someone said they are sorry .
It's like expecting a rape victim to marry their rapist because they were drunk.
lbr i've definitely read manga where the mc fell in love with her rapist.. i cant remeber the name but i remember this one where the girl was with her friend at a bar, got a bit drunk and got raped by the ML. then she gets pregnant, is forced to move into his house, where he treats her like scum and lets his family abuse her because he thinks she tricked her way into his bed to get money or something..... she still falls in love with him.....
Sadly is because that is what society expect of a good woman!
You can see this in sevetal Asians and Occidental romances, where the man is cruel and horrible withe the MC but she forgives him because she loves him!!!
And while it is true this version of the prince is not the same as the one from her previous life, yhe one from her previous life has show he can be violent and horrible against her!!!
Wow.. thanks for the heads up.. I was also hoping she goes with Leon or someone better.. even if they say he was brainwashed, he is old enough to know right from wrong and to make decisions.. I hate the fact that most isekai have that kind of bitch girl who brainwashes the Prince.. and stipid Prince doesnt even investigate.. Why did you become a Prince?? lol are you a kid???. I also dont like Abandoned Empresss..The manga is good so as the novel but I just think she should have better been a knight or successor of their house.. The Prince in her first life is still stupid and a user for me.. even if he changed in the new life there'd just no forviging what he did.. and mental trauma is not simple.. I had hope that she ended up with Carsien or Allen but she still fell inlove with the Prince..
I hope she will be on of the few reincarnated / transmigrated charaters to actually not fall in love with the same character they are trying to avoid.