
uhm...do you mean the prince or do you mean the male lead? dude...did you really read this? try to put yourself in the shoes of a women who is under constant pressure from all adults she can rely on around her to "do her duties, serve the lord and never reveal her gender". then there is the guy that all your fucking being seems to rely on. the sole purpose of your forced life as a male. and that guy secretly knows you are a women. and keeps making you face humiliation in order to get something he would give you anyway, but he wants to play around with you and see you "beg". i don't know if you are a person that loves themselves and has a valued sense of dignity, but being in a position of uncertainty where you can never hope or dream to really fulfil your deepest desires like fucking eating food you like, and there is your "lord" that knows what you really want, can give it to you, but always dangles it infant of you and makes you beg in the end and lower yourself into an act that causes second hand embarrassment even to readers....and then is actually someone who "loves you" like bruh....screw a love like this....sure it is amazing if someone can be friends with you, and does not coddle you because of their feelings. but he is straight up being sadistic with her all the time. he does not listen to her say "no, i don't want this" when she says she does not want to become his "female date" on the banquet....in the end he always manipulates her into giving in to all sorts of stuff... were you ever in such a position, that someone made you forget your intuition, logic and rational all over because they pressed the right buttons in you and then you ended up in a situation you knew you could have avoided if you just didn't get swayed by fear, stress and pressure and someone else desires and now you have this shit to deal with? dunno how this is romantic to you, or ok to you...but the male lead is playing with her....knowing he has the upper hand....he is a normal noble guy....he has the upper hand in all the areas that matter in this story....he is a man, he is rich, he is powerful, he has prestige, he is her employee, her lord and her life depends on him right now and he knows she is unable to truly refuse "his wishes (orders)"....why? because she is fucking conditioned into being his servant....no matter how "friendly" they are superficially....anyway....it is not a bad story....but this dude is selfish even in the way he "loves" and "cares" for her right now (dunno if it changes later)....and she is like. a leaf since she was born being blown around by the adults and men in her life....

she is someone unable to say "no" properly... to truly be selfish....to truly listen to her gut even when it would go against the wishes of people around her and make them feel negative...why? cause she was conditioned to be like this....to be a someone "that never forgets her position and duties"....she was raised to serve him and that family....it feels super disgusting actually if you always wake up after going along with someone else plans, find yourself in a post-moment of whatever happened and realise how you actually dislike where you are, but you could not avoid it really....and to see how much control over your own life you lack....it would have been best for her to really not go with him to capital....to run far far away from him...live a few years as her own person....and if it was meant to be they meet again as equals....instead of like this...ew
but the crown prince is disgusting. I hate people like him. I don't care if all over and compared to others, he is actually a "good" royal. Or if he is like this, because he grew up that way in order to survive in that kind of environment. He was still abusing his authority and sexually harassing a person. I cannot forgive this shit. And I never will. He could have gone about it another way. But no, he uses people of lower status to him, whom he obviously regards as "lower than him" and people who do not have anything like "feelings", "pride" or "personal space" or something....beings that are less human than him. Only a person like that would ever treat someone this way. This impression will hardly go away. No matter how beautiful he is, or how ok he is in the end, he is already done in my eyes. Another simple piece of shit, I expect less than nothin off and wish to never see again, pasta.
Yep. The more I see him and know about him, the more I am disgusted by him. Ew. He has many women he calls girlfriend. Obviously no one again can refuse him. He is trying to abuse his poor with Elijah again. He is a very obvious sociopathic person. I really get the creeps with people like this. Not that all are bad. But this guy obviously is completely loving it to abuse his authority and status without even giving on atom of a shit to feel empathy. People like him are those I wish I could just erase....urgh
Also, it is cute and all and I know he means well and cannot be any other way being royalty himself, but the male lead is not better. Keeps playing mind games with her, knows she is a woman, but pressures her. Never thinks how what he does could affect her and why the adults insist so much on hiding her sexuality and keeping her away from the capital. Sees how the crown prince takes disgusting interest in her, but now is about to make her life even more complicated and hard, abusing his authority over her. Ah god I swear....all I want from a male lead is to respect the female for fucks sake is that so hard?