The story and art is great and all, but if you change MC into a lady, it wouldn't be any different. Especially when they're established fiancés when there's not really much benefit since they can't have children, the situation is just odd for the both of them.
Reminds me of that BL "Ordinary Men". It doesnt have the "oh shit, am i gay?" and real world homophobia. Just people having relationships. And the fact that their relationship is normal means the setting doesn't really demands an heir (in his father's case, it was his obsession with weakening the curse), with all these patrons and possibly adoption, there's also the younger brother as potential next heir coz he's young.
The ritual is actually SA(s*xual a*sault) done by those priests? I also have thos tiny feeling thay the blonde princess is the daughter of that archbishop although i might be very wrong
I think so too about the rituals!! Like "you have to do the CleAnsiNg RitUaL /with/ the priest" sounds tooo sus :/ but pretty sure that the blonde 3rd princess is the 1st princess' child with a blonde commoner knight who awfully resembles Zester in terms of personality and the archbishop actually ordered for him to be offed : (











Like I know a lot of these stories have really bad villains... but veronica is something else. She's so vile and disgusting