
I just caught up to it / re read it and i know viola is better than me
If i caught my fiance badmouthing me in broad daylight with some hussy i would have gonna all scorched earth walked over there and lit a fire on their ass like
"Oh u hate me ??!U hate the engagement?!!??? U dont wanna marry??! Well news flash buddy u dont have to sacrifice yourself for the greater good and marry me i beat there is someone out there who'd be happy with me !!! Take a good look at me , at this! Cause you are never gonna get this!!!!"
Like i would cry afterwards for sure but still
Also is the author gonna brush over him going " yeah me too / likewise" at viola at the start of the misunderstanding when she told him she hated him??? Like what was that so much heartache would have been avoided if he went
"Why" she tells me she hear him with that gurl and then he explains what happens like oooooooOHHHH IM MAD MAD OOOOH

They drag this out in like a " she lets love into her heart at the last possible moment" so we get some epic panels about her magic running wild and people (btch sis and entourage)generally fearing for their live and also some sort of deux ex machina were god swoops in and explains some stuff and everyone shames the fam for being so shit that in 3 separate live times they couldn't get it right

Turns out he had legitimate reasons to call off his engagement to her like
A) he had to wed the dragon priestess and have an legitimate heir with her but fl refusing even before marriage
And saying that she would only be a wife in name and he should get a concubine is a receipt for trouble
Like the prince would need absolute backing from his faction after ascending the throne and you are telling me that he is basically throwing away support
cause if he got a concubine who is to say that gurl isnt going to get piss off at having to do all the queens work and still not having the title meanwhile the queen is in the dragon cage
(All if this is hypothetically and from the position the prince was in at the start if the story he wasnt aware of the dragon dying or that fl had agreed to be the dragons bonded pair)
As well as some noble holding a grudge over this whole thing mad at the fact that their daughters would have deserved that position more
Then there is
B) he believed the investigation from the dragon department that fls dragonstone lost its light and that the sister was the new / next dragon priestess he wasnt aware of the collusion between the sister and his brother (an alliance of evil siblings lol)
(Goes to show that if u want something done right do it yourself)

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Like yeah i feel like the cards were dealt against him

Like ml and b*tch : playing 4D chess with their magical blessing and travelling thro time
Fl : gardening
I thought this was the standard fantasy historical noble romance shenanigans but no its advanced isekai and regression nonsense its just that the reader perspective (aka fls ) doesn't catch that lmao

I really like this story wish there was more maybe im gonna look into reading that novel
but im also sad that at the end we got so many time skips like yeah they must have been on a crunch but still
in the last chapter they mention that after their fourth child did the magic research find out about the green skin
and we only get to see their first born
i wish we got like a panel with all of them together

Sad if yes but then again that would make the story short and sweet and just right for quick in-between

Yeah i mean that as if its like a promo for a novel and they stop the manga serialisation at a point where the readers even if they don't continue by picking up the novel they still get a somewhat competent short story
( like with " as the villainess i will keep the final boss" the manga and anime ended at the end of the first big arc and didn't publish the full story)
That was an emotional gut punch after an emotional gut punch chapter like omg i knew i gated them but damn