
Nah, Vio was expressing boldy her feelings before(way even before reincarnation), but what did that superficial prince did? Ignore her. Yulan is right, He doesn’t realize that his actions as a man of authority humiliates Vio who is also a noble. He blindsidedly sides with “justice” same with Maryjun. Very simplistic mindset not even bothering to see the perspective of other people. Just blindly saying to people that they are wrong just cause the morals and values are different.

He did handle her “desperate attacks” well in our standards now. But if you think of the story’s setting, it is humiliating and he had prejudice in his mind against Violette. Ofcourse, Violette isn’t completely innocent either cause she approached him with a slightly selfish motive(but all in all she did liked him and she saw him as someone who could give her familial love, idk how she came up with that conclusion, maybe because he is royal who is more powerful than her dad and she lived her life just proving her worth to people who doesn’t appreciate her a single bit. thinking of marrying to more powerful family She thinks she might prove her worth? Poor girl )
I don’t ship her with Claudia, but people are saying he only likes her because she doesn’t want him now. That’s not true, though. She’s being an actual person now. A kind person. That’s why he likes her now.