I'm sorry but everyone in this story sucks, they're all pushy, egotistical and one track minds or have no backbone and are literal doormat.
"you know i have a hard time saying no" umm, having a hard time saying no and letting someone plan a wedding that'll never happen isn't the same at all.
"i guess there's a difference between unlikely and impossible" no shit Sherlock ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ
if someone had talked to me like he did after i had been sexually assaulted, i would've punched him and i would've punched him again when he said bs like "i saved you from this dangerous situation but you didn't seem to understand how dangerous that was so i berated you and said you were asking for it and whore that actually wanted this to happen". like wtf
this story was good except the miracle baby part. that one makes me mad everytime, like the whole point is that she deserves love and happiness and a married life regardless of her ability to have children but then boom, miracle baby bc god said, now that you're over your fertility you deserve a baby
idk bro, but fl falling in love with him, having his child and marrying him despite only knowing his public persona and nothing about his personal life feels vain af and crazy
she's supposed to be queen for at least 18 years but politics and talks of it just goes over her head? but she gets all butthurt when ppl act like she's an incubator for the future king? make it make sense, if she truly wanted to be a ruler, she'd have learned all she could've about politics, laws and her country. i bet a random passerby knows more than fro. what she lets on.
why do they always write the fl (regardless of how accomplished she is) as though "a woman will be a woman and do what women do"? like she's the future ruler ffs, but she doesn't know how to rule? and her mother is the queen, but she was kept in the dark about the assassination? what is she? a decoration?
"unseen threats" and it was a woman that acted like his lover and him being in the dark about it until she eexually harassed him vs her childhood friend that is literally like her brother. not the same level
fl, ml and shoji are all idiots. fl's bar friedns too.
fl is a self sacrificing idiot that :
1. lied with the "i don't see you romantically, so don't worry" bomb she dropped on ml while trying, and failing miserably, to reassure him about their (fake) relationship
2. is so oblivious that she's actually blind. she's just tall and assertive but it destroyed her self esteem so much that the mere thought of someone being obviously in love with her is inconceivable. like the way she "rejected" shoji in college when he gave her a rose and the way she blows her friends off when they say he was confessing and it wasn't just reenacting a movie scene. or the way she's blind to the very obvious adoration the ml has for her and how her lie about not having feelings for him hurt him deeply.
3. jumps to conclusion like a pro athlete. like the way she ran away like a little bitch the moment ml ended the fake relationship without giving him the chance to finish and say "bc i want to start a real relationship with you, bc i truly like you"
the ml is an idiot that :
1. in clumsy af. like the way he ended the (fake) relationship wasn't the best for sure
2. listens to ppl (shoji) too much. like no don't leave her alone, confess your feelings ffs. (why do so many romance build the plot on ppl not having the balls to simply say "i like you" or "i love you" but having the energy to jump through hoop to hurt themselves thinking the other hates them or something?)
shoji is an asshole that :
1. meddles in other ppl's relationship, and that enough of a crime in itself.and the worst part is that he fucks it up without even trying lol
2. doesn't tell ppl the truth. like he knows ml is serious about fl, but noooo he won't say it to fl. if he was a true friend, he'd tell her that ml likes her. none of that "it's not my place to tell her".
and finally
fl's bar friends are idiots that :
1. same as with shoji, they don't tell ppl the truth and still try to give (useless) advice that helps no one. bc again, true friends tell their friends when someone likes them (back). like yeah, ideally they'll confess to each other, but real friends are here to push them forward and be the bearer of good news when they're faced with (known) oblivious idiots.
they never adressed the fact that he thought she was cheating
honestly, their romance is the best slow build up and the most logical one. it's always the best possibility when you get to be with someone who truly knows who you are
evry single time a harlequin man says "I've never met a woman so different" and the fl is just the most mary sue of mary sues i just can't help myself from thinking that he's just a surface level man that had surface level relationships with women, bc all women interesting in some ways. and that he must've not met a lot of women at all lol
the way he said she wasn't disabled but was strong and resilient irked me. she is disabled, it's a fact. but she is also strong and resilient, doesn't make her disability disappear tho
she's immature, annoying, cannot say anything without being insulting, prideful, stupid and a walking headache. like you know nothing, assume everything, do nothing to facilitate your nephew's transition into a new life. i understand why alejandro won custody of micheal, an adult child like her would never be able to bring up a well regulated child, idk how she became a teacher with an attitude like that
it was very poorly written, the ex is a textbook example of a cliche and like a commentor before said, he doesn't make sense at all. the fl has no reason to be so uncomfortable with the ml other than "6 years ago, i discovered that he's a womanizer"a nd she acts like a child.
fl is brainless and would win every single "jumping to conclusion through the most weird loophole" competition ever, she tops every single harlequin fl in existence
the fl pmo as always "i just want him to tell me that he loves me" did you tell him you loved him? no? then why do you expect him to lay his heart out when you're too scared to extend the same courtesy? and the "she's just stonrg will (implied: like her mom)" comment at the end is just straight up false, running away from rrality and assuming the worse and not having faith in the ppl around you is not being strong willed
the mc that is not even that attracted to him: *becomes a tomato at every single thing the ml does*
ml, that has been in love with him for years and finally reunited with him after the mc disappeared (died): *cool as a cucumber*
I'm tired of this, like stop blushing like a middle school virgin (im a 20yo virgin and i don't blush , bumble and stop thinking like that at the first sign of affection) and make the man who yearns (ml) look like he actually yearn for the mc and loves him instead of making him sexually assault mc until mc relents without ever saying anything at all. that's why dumbass mcs get away with thinking the ml don't love them and that they're just playing with them
ah yes, casual sexual assault as a non consensual kiss followed by gaslighting and joking to divert the attention from the fact that it is sexual assault. tf
are we gonna foregt that she swapped many ingredients in the potion and it's probably not a love potion at all? and also she made it impulsively, decided to not give it to him but he still ended up drinking it, so technically, she didn't give him the potion, he stupidly drank it all by himself
let's stop making the fl that looks like morning dew personally blessed by the purest of angels get bullied as plain, birdensome and useless. like tf? do you have eyes of what? dropped.