
Please be patient.
Sometimes you gotta take a step back before taking two forward. This is Hangyul's step back.
Once in Eunhan's house, he'll find out about the deal he had with that spirit and how that affected him, and is going to break up with him for good, and even go away to another country to run from him.

I just binged this, and jfc never before have I hated side characters so much. How is it that everyone around Seo-an and Woo-Won is a piece of shit?
And ffs, they should do better at communicating in s3, especially Woo-Won with that asshole blackmailing him shit. It's rich of him to be mad at Seo-an when he's the one keeping all that shit from him, and it's great that he recognizes it, so please do better.

I love the storyline from a political point of view, especially when it comes to fights and power scaling. Asha would make a great shonen protagonist.
But from a romance perspective, Asha is one of the dumbest and most frustrating protagonists I've ever seen.
It's like the author can't match Asha the warrior with Asha the love interest, so they made both half-assed. Her personality flops between being fierce and being clueless, which tbh doesn't make sense to me.
It's like the author dumbed her down for the sake of romance, which I find a disservice. Asha was constantly unsure during the story.
I wish the author had gone all out and compromised to the great warrior narrative, and gave her more confidence, and rugged appearance. I'd have loved a short haircut instead of whatever that was with the braids.
The designs of the protagonists also had too huge a gap. Carlisle was all red and gold, Asha was black and white. They didn't match.
Overall, nice story, but the execution could have been better.

For the romance perspective, Asha is not dumb yet frustrating, to say the least. You should've considered the fact that both her and ML were in a cotractual agreement in the first place. Her being unsure of her feelings and their relationship correlates to that point. She'll look stupid if she prioritized her feelings towards the ML than her commitment as the lord of Pervaz.
And also, long hair or short hair or braided hair or whatever kind of hair it is, the MC's character overall aspect will stay the same. But if you really insist on the idea that Asha should have short hair since she was a warrior, just know that "a female warrior's long hair symbolizes strength, power, and a connection to primal feminity, signifying a fierce and formidable woman who embraces both her warrior spirit and her natural beauty, while shorter or braided dtyles can represent discipline, practicality, and readiness fir combat depending on the culture and context." Searched that since you might didn't perceive that the author is influenced by historical sources rather than your preferences.

It wouldn’t make sense to make her more confident in that aspect when she’s never experienced any of this before and was also operating off the pretense that if anything went wrong with the contractual marriage, pervez would be doomed. She couldn’t afford to be selfish or fuck up.
Why would she be confident in when she has never once interacted with the empire and its customs until after the war was won. And did you ever consider the fact that Asha didn’t see herself the way others did.
She was constantly downplaying her achievements and would always put herself down. At one point she even said “why would the high priest want to seduce a woman like me?” which offend the ML bc he hated how she talked about herself. Just say you hate nuanced characters! We can’t always have books with perfect MCs
??? Now you're worried about being despised??? After all the shit you've done???
He's falling... harder