
Idk guys…I liked this one. The criticism is valid. The plot isn’t strong, not much background, kind of disjointed and no real idea where we’re going but I find the gl compelling, I like her dynamic with the ml and I like how gentle he is with her. The kid is cute too. Overall, I’ve enjoyed it so far and while I do hope it gets better, I don’t really mind how it is now

This is apparently a controversial opinion but I feel bad for Raymond and I don’t think the author should have gone with the regret path. His actions in the past weren’t bad. Why? BECAUSE AGNES WAS HARASSING HIM!!
Imagine living your life not knowing peace cause the princess of the country wants you. He rejects her constantly and he’s completely justified to do that. Why? BECAUSE HE DOESN’T WANT HER AND THATS FINE, HE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO. Not everyone has to have feelings for the female lead. And frankly, he’s not even trash! He could be treating her soooo much worse but he doesn’t. He really only talks bad about her and who doesn’t talk bad about someone they don’t like, especially someone who’s harassing them?
I don’t think he should have to suffer because he didn’t like her in the past. He holds no obligations to her and I hate that he’s trying to take another look at his past through this regretful lens. I think it’s stupid.
I don’t think it’s about not appreciating what you could have had because Agnes wasn’t good to him. Yes, they were friends when they were kids but we can see that even then she was too forceful with him. She’s never understood boundaries and I understood she had her own stuff to deal with but so did he. I don’t think he was justified to blame her for his mom’s death but grief does crazy things to you, so I get it.
I’ll stop here but I think everyone who thinks he deserves the regret he’s getting is looking at it from a very shallow perspective and I hope he heals honestly.

I actually agree on one vital point: his "change of heart" makes zero sense, let alone his consequential "suffering". He should've been relieved.
And before that, he should've stuck to staying the heck AWAY from her: that would've meant, no offering to go "personally," and even then, go all by himself, "to her rescue", like he did in chapter 6 (could've sent someone else, or brought soldiers along... anything to prevent it looking anything close to a "personal" rescue...), and especially, no following her around when she was sneaking out alone (again... couldn't he have just sent someone?). It was also his insistence on dealing with her in a personal style that also encouraged things (like her brother's hopes to get him as a brother-in-law, for example). The guy was always "making it his business" to "clean up her messes", even when NO ONE asked him to!

BTW, while I don't disagree with this: "He really only talks bad about her and who doesn’t talk bad about someone they don’t like, especially someone who’s harassing them?" The problem wasn't that he was badmouthing her, but how he was sticking to just that instead of confronting the *root* problem: her brother and her father. With his status, he could've afforded to tell them in their face he wasn't going to play nanny for her anymore, because that only served to encourage her mistake that she still had romantic chances with him and thus should perserve... and that his own stepping down from that unofficial "nanny" position meant her brother and father would NOW certainly have to find SOMEONE ELSE to be her caretaker, and stop her whenever she was about to do something dangerous that could get herself killed.
...The fact that he didn't confront her brother and/or father about this meant those two were left FREE to keep entertaining ideas that it was still possible for her and Raymond to be "just another bickering couple" who would someday end up getting married (her emperor father indeed didn't consider it impossible, since he had *nightmares* about it!) and, quite conveniently, that Raymond could still ENJOY the reputation of being "the national hero whom everyone loved to the point even the princess coveted him"... no matter how much he "claimed" not to want it.

Lemme add some insight as to why some people may dislike him: they could have read the novel. I finished the novel (though idk if there’s side stories since there hasn’t been any translation of that). Mention of spoilers:
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And Raymond DOES GET WORSE. He becomes even more delusional once her attention is off of him.
I would completely understand how he didn’t like the original version of agnes, since it was basically obsession. But it’s a different story when he changes his mind and the reason he goes after her isn’t because he romantically loves her. He only goes after her because he thinks about how she almost died and is comparing her to his mother that passed. He feels like as long as she’s alive and doesn’t die like his mom, he’ll give her the attention she previously wanted. But the thing is, he tells her “I’ll do anything you want EXCEPT for leaving you alone.” Even when she tells him to leave her alone, he refuses. So now he has become like original Agnes.
One of the most annoying parts:
When he realizes that Agnes didn’t lose her memories and is just pretending. Instead of being reasonable and thinking she did it cause she doesn’t want to be around him anymore. He ASSUMES that she did it FOR HIS SAKE?! He made it about HIM. His delulu self went through mind loops to reach the conclusion that she’s pretending so that he can move on and find his own happiness without her burdening him.
Lmao he’s so annoying