beta
This is why I shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. The ml is fineeee, but he has problematic views. He doesn’t understand why she would ‘throw her life away’ and thinks she’s only trying to protect her pride. She’s afraid of being assaulted, which he knows because he saw how the men around him behaved when the emperor was deciding where she would go. He saw her smiling, even though she was marrying an old man, and concluded she was just being greedy. Then he assumed her life would be better if she would simply let things be. Five chapters in, and this isn’t for me. I like character development, but it’s clear the author is trying to portray the ML as a good guy just because he didn’t assault her. I can’t stand when authors highlight bad men to make the ML look better