I'm always happy when the characters do no sacrifice professional opportunities for relationships. It's different if they have a nursing baby that they need to be around or something like that....but in most situations, you know that rationally the character should accept the opportunity but the author either drags it out for too long or portrays the rejection of the opportunity as some form of a romantic gesture.
I'm rereading this and chapter 2 doesn't sit well with me. Not a single decent person would have his hand around his potential kid's babysitters back like that. That is weird. There is a reason that that position has always been used for romantic partners in real life and in fiction. If you want to meet a potential babysitter use your words and don't touch her like that. It's not like the misunderstanding was caused by her being his car or him opening the door for her to enter the building, both of which are acceptable. His touched her lower back.











I have an opinion that is probably as controversial as going against the Swifties or Kpop fans: I never cared for these two tropes: "princess and her knight" and "enemies to lovers". Oh no the horror! But seriously though, I especially dislike the latter. Just to clarify, I can get behind a "two classmates who used to hate each other falling in love" but the "two people from enemy nations having tragic love or betraying their countries for love" is one of the shittiest tropes, in my opinion.
Preach!!
No, for real, I don't really get it either! Other than a very, very, VERY small group of exceptions (that are incredibly written and developed trust), I can't make sense of love coming from something like this story. The Mc should've kicked in the balls for all the bullshit she's been through because of Ml, but I can already guess that won't happen, so eff me!