
why is the ML so stupid

He’s not, though. Even though she did everything she could to pretend she didn’t like him before they dropped him in the water, he still believed that she loved him. But then she was grinning with her siblings days later after she believed him to have died. Makes sense he’d believe the worst afterwards

It is about his stupidity. If anything if he knew his family betrayed him it'd make more sense for him to understand that her family hates her and would force her to act happy to keep up public appearances. He's also a royal so he should understand how important public aplearances are. The author of this manhwa just can't write and wants to have a needless misunderstanding because they're allergic to character depth. Or it's their first time writing a manhwa; which, fair.

As far as writing abilities, there’s not much to say except for the fact that it’s the only way we can evaluate great storytelling vs a nice or mediocre story. I like the story enough to just read what’s been given instead of thinking about the better ways the writer could’ve handled it. From the way the story was written, my understanding is that the ML isn’t meant to be stupid, but that he’s rather shortsighted and heart broken, probably also because of the betrayal he’s already gone through
yall we kinda knew he was like this i mean did we forget how he has like an album of the bottom’s pictures