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They have been married for like a year or more already before the current Chloe is reincarnated, and during that time it's clearly a loveless marriage, the duke didn't care about her personally, and it was first and foremost a contract marriage. The day Chloe asked permission to buy tea was I believe their first interaction after a while. That's why I think Chloe had a hard time believing Al's affection to her.
bro this whole, "you can't love each other during the marriage" thing gave me a whole headache.
like i feel like im missing something here because for like 20 chapters i was just over here thinking about how chloe's standards of love must be hella high for her to say that she didn't love alphonse and how he didn't love her, like they literally said in chap 71 that nothing changed after they changed the contract, like- wha??
was the fact that they couldn't say they loved each other the problem because chloe was actin like she didn't like him, especially in that one chapter when she said that to his face when she clearly showed hella affection toward him?????
idk, they are really cute but i had such a bad headache reading through that whole plot point.