
Don't give us romance. Romance is always ruining the story for me. There's this one manhwa that was really good the plot is similar to this, until they added romance.

Me too, Second to the motion on this one. I hate when the good story will have a romance like what happened to Sword Art Online, romance brings destruction to the story. So I dropped reading Lightnovel of TBATE when the chapter revolves to Tess and Art Love story. Call me a bitter but I don't want good story will have a romance. I hope this manhwa/webtoon will not have a romance or else Imma drop this one.

I like Jay to be the ml too. But Assad is not with the Princess because he wants to be with her. He's with her because the King ordered him to be with her. Assad dead ass said it himself but the Princess cut him off. Stop saying you forgot his name because his name is literally there in the recent chapters. Assad genuinely like the MC so idk why y'all are hating on him when you can hate the mf King and Princess ┑( ̄Д  ̄)┍

Sorry but I keep seeing your replies everywhere and I've gotta agree homeboy duke didn't do anything wrong TT -TT it's truly the princess who we should be mad at, and who everyone WAS mad at in the previous chapter. I get it y'all want Jay to be ml bc he is the dangerous sexy assassin man trope but don't disregard Assad the handsome mean to good royal man trope like c'mon y'all ┐(´д`)┌

That's simple. We hate him because he got interested in her over his bruised ego cuz she deadass dumped him. He didn't want to let her go over his bruised ego 2 cuz he thought she liked "the dog" better and brought him to her house.
The dog (forgot his name) likes her kinda because of Stockholm. More than like he is over dependant on her and she is trying to correct it.
Assad likes her because of his vanity. Cuz he can't get over the fact she blackmailed him to be with her but got tired of him and is not interested anymore.
Jay liked the previous Ayne and like the current one too. He likes her because she is interesting and cares for him.
See it that way... Jay is ok with changing his life 180° for her. I feel he would even accept being a kept husband if she wanted... something I doubt Assad would accept.
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Alzo... about the princess. He knows dang well the king's intention. He could very well made it so they wouldn't be alone. I'm not even talking about refusing since it would be disrespectful to his fiancée, which it is. He could have asked a lady in waiting or other knights to accompany them. He could asked Ayne, his fiancée and Maria's "friend" to accompany them. He had a number of ways of avoiding it without going against the King. But. He. Didn't.
Not that Ayne cares anyway...

It's been made pretty clear by his actions tho? From him thinking the engagement break was a ruse to get his attention... his change of mind after seeing the dog... and all his behavior after that. Even his wanting to understand his feelings.
Now I question you. Why do you think he likes her if not his bruised ego? Even at the start when he was faking sleep she said she liked him. Past tense. She made clear she got tired of him. And his insistence is not cuz he thinks she still likes him but because now that she's not interested he is.
It's always the one who got the "holy power".
It's always the "religious" authorities hdlshsjsh