little bit of spoilers:
Dont worry, Luce wont develop stockholm syndrome bc hes the most stubborn character, it’s one of the reasons of their conflict bc the prince cannot control Luce, he couldnt bend him to his will. Luce is also alrdy in love with Ail and he knows that being with him will cause him more great pain.
Also, the prince wont have any character development. He will remain the same infuriating ass, he’ll just realise his feelings for Luce/Ruth
I feel so bad for Luce but I’m glad he doesn’t cave;-; if it weren’t for how much I love Luce, I would have dropped this sticking around for himmmm
lol is so funny to me that the prince is like “don’t fall in love with me” but then only does things to Luce that would make a normal person hate him. Like don’t worry, you make it easy, I think they’ll hate you instead.
I said “a normal person” because despite everything, Luce is probably experiencing heartache. I hope he doesn’t actually develop Stockholm syndrome and fall in love (or at least before the ML actually has some REAL character development). But if I’m being honest, I don’t think they should even end up together because of how trash the ML is.