This isn't even suspension bridge effect, this is straight Stockholm syndrome. Readers tolerated it because the ML is hot, imagine he looked like the Baron, people would be pissed. If you think about it, Belle and MC's story is pretty similar, both assaulted and forced to have a baby, not having a choice in love. You could read the first 3 chapters and the last 3 chapters and it would be exactly the same. There is no character development what so ever, it apparently happens between the MC's pregnancy, but we never see it. MC doesn't even forgive, he just let it go because he doesn't have the choice to say no. The ML is completely unlikeable, threatening MC in the beginning to kill the village then again at the end by saying if he DOESN'T become empress, he will be executed. And ML knows that MC would just leave him because the MC doesn't love him, so he forces him to become pregnant, which still didn't stop MC from leaving.
I honestly wish we saw the pregnancy process and they made it tragic, like the MC gets depression and talks about how much he despises the ML and wish he was never pregnant, forcing the ML to grow as a person and change. The world building had so much potential (like the evil energy), but it never goes anywhere and just ended abruptly with zombie chaos.
Even the side character story is kind of sad since white hair wants love and green hair is only staying for money.
I hoped it would get better and it never did. All these trauma things and power abuse happens to the MC but it's never addressed or taken seriously, especially considered MC has trauma from his entire family being slaughters (reasons unknown).
This isn't even suspension bridge effect, this is straight Stockholm syndrome. Readers tolerated it because the ML is hot, imagine he looked like the Baron, people would be pissed. If you think about it, Belle and MC's story is pretty similar, both assaulted and forced to have a baby, not having a choice in love.
You could read the first 3 chapters and the last 3 chapters and it would be exactly the same. There is no character development what so ever, it apparently happens between the MC's pregnancy, but we never see it. MC doesn't even forgive, he just let it go because he doesn't have the choice to say no.
The ML is completely unlikeable, threatening MC in the beginning to kill the village then again at the end by saying if he DOESN'T become empress, he will be executed. And ML knows that MC would just leave him because the MC doesn't love him, so he forces him to become pregnant, which still didn't stop MC from leaving.
I honestly wish we saw the pregnancy process and they made it tragic, like the MC gets depression and talks about how much he despises the ML and wish he was never pregnant, forcing the ML to grow as a person and change.
The world building had so much potential (like the evil energy), but it never goes anywhere and just ended abruptly with zombie chaos.
Even the side character story is kind of sad since white hair wants love and green hair is only staying for money.
I hoped it would get better and it never did. All these trauma things and power abuse happens to the MC but it's never addressed or taken seriously, especially considered MC has trauma from his entire family being slaughters (reasons unknown).