
I dont get thr hate towards fl. I also dont understand why yall are acting as if the battlefield would have taught her how to navigate feelings. It literally does the opposite. FL is not dumb. She understands politics and can navigate that well. Feelings are an entirely different matter and something that was not and has never been explained to her. She only learned the necessary things she needed to survive which didn't include fckass love. She needed to learn how to fight to survive. She needed to learn how to play mind games in politics so her people would survive. Love and feelings on the other hand isnt something that she needed to learn so she put that in the backburner. Yall keep forgetting that girlie spent her ENTIRE LIFE IN THE BATTLEFIELD, literally struggling to survive and struggling to keep her people alive and yall would demean her character just bc she's understandably naive when it comes to feelings. Feelings dont come naturally to everyone. Especially not to someone who's only ever known blood and war all her life.

It's honestly more unrealistic if she's only ever known blood and war and then suddenly she comes onto the scene fully understanding feelings. That's not realistic at all. She's slow when it comes to feelings and it makes fcking sense ntm that the prince hasnt done anything ro assure her of anything.

Like some of yall came here without reading properly and with completely different expectations of her. It's always been stated since fcking chapter 1 that she will and has always prioritized the rebuilding of pervaz and her people. She's never known greed bc she didnt have the luxury for that. She's always only ever learned to think of others as she is their leader. Her people have been suffering for decades and have only just started getting back on their feet and yall expect her to just rearrange her priorities bc yall dont like how she very understandably lacks an understanding of feelings? Mind u, she grew up without her mom or anyone to explain emotions to her. Since she was a child, her father has ingrained the sense of responsibility into her so she's always carried that burden with her to the point that she doesnt even think of herself anymore bc that's how she grew up (as in, she grew up thinking of her people and her people alone, making sure they survive). Yall wanna mock her for not understanding feelings whennu cant even understand her circumstance.

Havent read this for the longest time and continued on the chapter i left it on now im confused bc i cant remember mc's fcking gender

MC/Al was a girl by birth, but they stepmom didn't want Al to became candidate for their house succession so Al was raised into a boy. Even going as far to fed him with poison of infertility. But after being healed, her menstruation circle come back (yes, there a panel showing how panicking she was as never been thought about menstruation) and she start to embrace her feminine side while maintaining the boy-ist appearances. Although some people already catch up that Al was too beautiful as a man

As for succession, I think it was mainly the man who inherited the title but there also case a noble (acknowledge by the royal) may choose the matrilineally inheritance system, even in some case was using merit system so both male/female heir had opportunity to be the heir. From what I see is that the grandfather family was choosing the successor either by matrilineal way or merit system, that's why it look confusing.
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And for why Al was scared to reveal her gender was because all of family member (outside the trashy one) know Al as a male not as a female, and Al herself has been raised and brainwashed through life that she was a male, so she must act and think like one also she never thinking her own body was a body of female (this was one of solid reasonable explenation why she get scared the shit out when find out her first menstruation, like a clueless kid). This is just show how bad the situation itself without explicitly showing it.
It's so strange seeing her with her blond hair but yea imma let this marinate until better quality uploads appear