
The male lead is a no for me. I get that he help her out when she needed it but I don’t see a reason for her to love him. It turned me off when he abandoned her for 3 years saying that he died but also manipulated her.

I agree. Proceeds to leave her high and dry, manipulate her emotions into remembering/not being able to forget him, pulling off an act so everything FL knows about ML is a fluke.
Like girl been lied into thinking she's needed, lied by the whole estate and mansion.
Then ML saunters back in her life and starts deciding who she can see and not see bc petty jealousy. Then proceed to manipulate the market for his whims.
That's a whole lot of red flags to me.
I’m like surprised she didn’t kill the “fl” when she was a kid. Like it would have been so much easier since.
i thought so too, but then, the story would have ended as a five panel oneshot