
Okay wait I need to clarify something - is your destined partner somebody that you absolutely HAVE to be with or you'll die?
Cause if not, why can't Zay just resolve to love Aseph whether she has a seal or not? I mean, she came to the world just to save him so it shouldn't matter if someone else is her soulmate, she could just choose to be with Aseph.

Well supposedly you'd suffer from seal sickness
But like it's supposed you'd always fall in love with the other person so it never happened before.
I think we are facing a special class with our female lead as it seems like she'd really stay with Aseph no matter what
Although didn't her seal start to fade a bit (it was mentioned in one of the chapters......r? (● ̄(エ) ̄●))

YES
I used google translate to translate some panels! And you are right!
SPOILERS
also this is long lol
So there'd be a ball, the two of them dance in front of a crowd, he (asks her?) Something? Maybe a confession!? But she runs out the ball while everyone is watching
He follows her into the corridor
He asks her to tell him but she refuses
They share a kiss
She says sth, he's shocked, maybe she told him she has no feelings for him?
He takes out a dagger and stabs himself in the stomach but with just the end, there was a blood stain though. Elzay (that's the FL's name r?) Yells at him, she takes out the dagger and throws it out the window
They have a small talk
Then she looks like she made up her mind
She drops his jacket off her sholder (that he put on her sometime through their argument in the corridor) and starts to unravel the bow on her sholder (one sholder pink dress). Aseph is shocked and tries to stop her but she stops him, and then shows him her seal. Aseph looks SHOOK and then winces (probably thinking how such a fool he was for having his hopes up or that the whole time she belonged to someone else?) But she yells something, Aseph is taken aback, Aseph takes his jacket off the floor and shook it from dust then placed it gently back on her sholders and they have a tight hug. Then her father and sister come into the scene, the father looks angry when he sees them hugging with her dress stained blood on the place her mark is, he yells
Aseph roasts, the father shoots back. Then fl butts in, she says that she loves Aseph and she wouldn't choose another guy other than him, taking his hand and walking side by side to the end of the corridor leaving her father and sister behind.
~End of season one~

i really hope this story get a happy ending i know everyone hating on Aseph bcz his mind is sick and all, but i can't help but to love him, if he hasn't been through shit all his life that wouldn't be the case for him, i mean his childhood was horrible his father hurting his mother and then the prevert woman, how can someone's brain be intact after that, i do really love him and i want him to be happy with Zay, but she needs to be stronger to stop him when he goes insane, i higly doubt that the prince will have the same mark as Zay and things get all scary and ugly or maybe lets be optimists maybe the mark will appear in aseph's body later when he truly become a stable person in both his heart and soul

Me too! But I'm still kinda curious what would happen had it shown on the prince's body tho heheheh well I'm an evil person. Ofc as long as the mark fades and preferably appears on Aseph.
No seriously I really hope the seal appears on Aseph's body, prince Ludwig should just be with her sister.
About Zay, surprisingly, yes surprisingly (As I read lots of Chinese manga) Zay doesn't really bother me as much as weak characters do, I think it's just something in her personality, maybe her reasons are far more deeper and complicated than we think, she has no idea how sincere Aseph is, knows he lies a lot, and knows that if Aseph starts to have feelings for her it'd just be another story like the original where Aseph is left a lone after the person he loves has to leave for another person.
She really cares a lot about Aseph and is going through a hard time, I think she's a very gentle and emotional person, that I'm really having suspicions about whether she (Zay) has some kind of mental disorder or suffers from anxiety or so, cuz then her actions are kinda explained. It's just her personality and to me it's actually refreshing to see. That and, I was really proud of her when she made up her mind and stood up for Aseph against her father confidently. I hope she gathers her strength. So I recommend trying to enjoy the story more instead of focusing on these stuff. The story really has huge potential and is actually one of my fav.
About what you said about Aseph I TOTALLY agree! I love Aseph! That and.. you don't find these types of characters every day in manga out there.
I'm getting boss x perv!client vibes