
What I rly like abt this aside from the actually smart MC is that, ML is actually a rly decent green flag if he wasn't being brainwashed his whole life, and even being able to fight the restrictions and the rules of his world by himself even tho he's still under it, bcs alot of MLs out there especially with tropes similar to this (redemption, regret, angst) most of the time the problem is actually their lack of communication and observation skills towards the female lead, and some are actually just a bunch of manipulative dung, and so he's actually one of the neatest written male leads out there if we rly think abt it