i'm pretty sure that 'Strong Female Lead' refers to Mentality or Personality Strength and not Physical Strength (●￣(ｴ)￣●) (even if in most cases it's both physical and mental strenght, combined to form some sort of intelligent heroine)
she does not have that much Personality either, so you can't say she has personality strength. she needs a personality first to have strength in it(￣∇￣")
What do you mean no personality?!?!? She's kindhearted and she'd rather sacrifice her interest than to harm others. She's gentle but she can be strong when she has sth to fight for. She never lets others sway her (look at how she fought back the Shah) and she has a firm belief. She's smart and quick-witted. She can read a situation and assess it well. However, her pleasure nor her happiness are not her priority. She puts the group's interest before her own. Even the whole dream thing, she did it so the fire that harms others will vanish.
That is her personality. And how is she dumb honestly?? Because she jumped in to shield a young child? Because she shielded the prince in a spur of a moment? Honestly, I'm not saying she made good decisions all the time, but prior to joining the Prince's group, she has received no formal education (not even her real life considering how they shunned her out of the village). During the whole time she was with the Shah, she obtained useful information and eventually got the real map. Man, I wouldn't have survived the first time I jumped 10 meters from the wall. Give the girl some credit dude.
And she didn't give in to the Shah, not even when he treated her kindly or proclaimed that what he had towards her was love. She needed the 1st prince's tear. And I don't wanna defend that mofo, but he has not once sexually harassed her.
the Historical background of India or whatever the fuck this plot try to do - I DON'T GIVE A SHIT! I really don't.why bother with this bs if it's all a dream anyway?! >.< this is so stupid!
second, the first ML is just an annoying psychopath brat that kills anyone that moves - why the fuck I GIVE A DAMN ABOUT HIM?!!
the second ML - great another asshole kidnapper that enjoys buying women cause they are tools to him, yeas it really healthy way to view them and then sexually harassing the FL EVERY TIME WE SEE HIM cause it soo funny how she uses her power to resist him right? hahah yeas it funny, funny how disgusting he is!!! he even worse than the first brat. and then the asshole tries to force her to marry him, great is sexually harassing her every day isn't enough? you also force her to marry you!!! GOD I HATE HIM SO MUCH!!! I don't get why this plot/story thinks I give a shit about his stupid "sad" back story, that again I don't give a shit about his dumb mother or him. it doesn't cancel his actions so far!
another thing that annoys me is people actually give it the "Strong Female Lead" tag while the FL is just a tool that can't even fight or protect herself when she been sold out to man, kidnap or sexually assault by them - how is she strong?!! her friend is strong, yeah but not her. she never was strong!! the opposite she super dumb most of the time =_=
so basically this plot is the same as other dumb plots with dumb FL "even if the guy is forcing you and sexually harass you it's romantic cause he wants to marry you and he has a sad backstory that you can fix him" fuck this bs.