Sex does not mean love. Assuming that someone loves you is not related to intelligence in my opinion. Fl should not rationalise or read ml minds. It is all about communocation
no sex doesn’t equate love but unadulterated attention, affection, consistency and time do. the director puts a lot of care into their relationship completely unrelated to sex so to assume that he doesn’t love her despite all of those things is frustrating to see.
yes this is exactly what i meant!!!! thank you for putting it into worda
every time i read a smut manga with the 'contract marriage' trope i think to myself "maybe this will be the one where the fl has more than three braincells and recognizes that OF COURSE HE LOVES HER WHY TF WOULD HE STAY MARRIED TO HER AND HAVE SEX WITH THER EVERY DAY AND DO NICE THINGS FOR HER if he didn't love her" but noooo every time I am painfully unsurprised that for some reason after all that plus them literally being married they think that they have an unrequited love... like I'm so sorry but are you dumb???? smut female lead critical thinking skills challenge