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As much as I love that the plot is plotting, there is nothing compelling about our main character eventually beginning a romantic relationship as we know with his charge as we know will happen. Our MC is nothing but a political pawn and prisoner to the crown prince. He has no actually autonomy true in any of the political games he’s been forced onto the board to now defend a royal power that has no care for whether he lives or dies as long as he serves his purpose. Despite the prince being the younger, the power imbalance and worse given that the prince now cannot be certain who to trust and not trust, our MC may be compelled to fill in roles that a growing boy would require to properly be “well adjusted”. Maybe the author may be able to spin this in a way that will eventually evolve into love, but from my current guess we’ll get an obsession/ possession dynamic between the two more so than anything that one would consider a love story.