
i feel a little conflicted with the prince as the ml. the good thing is that the female lead and this prince never had any kind of relationship so he didn’t betray her trust, like the abandoned empress and other novels with the ‘she falls in love with the guy who sliced her head off’ trope, so i think i can warm up to this guy.

i understand why the male lead doesn’t want to tell the female lead about his family, partly because he thinks that she might hate him like his family and partly because he doesn’t think she will believe him (this part doesn’t make sense, but whatever)
however, he has to understand that treating her like shit and not telling her why he’s treating her that way will only create distance and hatred between them. he can’t be surprised when she decides to cut him off because he doesn’t treat her the way a friend should when he’s not telling her these important things, like his family trying to kill him and then possibly her by association.

a five hear old.....not even counting that it’s his own son...this man needs fucking help, he’s so deluded omg

He doesn’t want the son. He can fuck who he wants and every king needs a son to take over when he dies whether he wants it or not. He was treated the same so he will do as such too. His father said he was nothing, stupid, didn’t want him etc, and he will do the same because that’s all he knows. It’ll take more than a day to change years of his personality and history to someone good
i wish the ex-boyfriend would be more clear with his words. be honest and straight up, tell the mc that you broke up with him the second youngwoo, his new boyfriend, started loving him.
i feel like he keeps tip toeing around telling the mc he doesn’t love him anymore and is being almost rude, but i get that it’s hard for him since he struggled so much. but now he’s just hurting everybody around him with the way he’s acting. i feel bad for all three of them honestly.