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I like the occasional romances with red flags but like..... this was alarming to read. JFC. The art is pretty but whew I could not stomach any of the characters and twas just really hard to read through/root for them.
I found both the leads so frustrating.
1. ML just SA-ed and humiliated the FL daily because of his grudge towards the FL's twin sister. And I get the motivation, I love a good revenge story~. But I just couldn't get behind the act as revolting as . There are other ways to humiliate a person (ie. A very public trial that leads to an execution, especially since the twin is known for being a shitty ruler or just for her to be his personal maid and make her the most asinine tasks or do hard manual labor of repairing the castle. Idk. Did had to be the only plot point just because the genre s Josei smut
2. After all the SA, FL just forgives him because they had a history and he had become nicer to her. I totes get that she's under the curse or whatever. But Stockholm syndrome is soooo not it.
3. And she's just soooo naive and ignorant about her sister and the ML's situation, it gave me an aneurysm. All that reading and visits to the library but still lacks critical thinking. The mentality she had "he's in-love with his tormentor and only uses me as a substitute" gave me such an ick. I'm sorry but ma'am. Ma'am please. Stop projecting. Your man's clearly going through something traumatic JFC.
I have more to say about the story but NGL skimmed most of it because I kept losing braincells.