I can only speak for myself but my issue with the FL isn't that she turned the prince away. My issue with her is that she was the one who decided to approach the boy in the first place. She knew the kid felt worthless and desperate for love. And she put in his head the idea that she was a person (the only person in his life up until that point) that was glad to have met him and found joy from just encountering him.
The kid went to look for her because of what she did. Like I said in a previous comment, it's irresponsible and cruel to give kindness to someone who feels hopeless and worthless to just to then take it away. The kid is living a hard life. She doesn't need to make it worse by becoming yet another person that makes him feel like he should've never been born.
What she should've done, if she didn't want to be involved in the kid's issues, was walk away in that very first meeting instead of sitting next to him.
especially considering she knew his identity when she first saw him and she knew him being around would pose risk to the children; she turned him away the first time and then doubled back, but she’ll still cut him off if things get bad. he’s a neglected child who just wants to be loved, so continuously doing this kind of thing is really cruel. eventually him going there will pose a threat and he’ll go from not knowing what it’s like to be loved and wanted, to suddenly having it all stripped away. it’s hard to bounce back from either of these things, but i just think it’s cruel af that she’s doing this. even if she doesn’t mean to hurt him, in the end, she will hurt him bc his father is an awful being :/
Exactlyy. She basically offered her hand to boy that's already down on the floor and then pushed him back to the ground. That's so fucked up.
Geez SOME people ar OVERREACTING just bc mc told sade to leave at first, like honestly, can you guys just read and try to understand HER and the ORPHANAGE'S situation if sade got caught visiting the orphanage. Even with the duke's protection things are bound to get messy. "Oh but sade is a kid too" yes, he is a kid, a prince, but even though he's treated poorly by his bastard of a father, HE'S STILL THE PRINCE OF THE NATION regardless.
Let's say that sade run away from the palace, the palace will be in chaos (doubt it would lol) because their prince is missing, and the very first suspect will obviously mc and the orphanage, why? Bc the fucking chamberlain knows, he's the one that told sade abt her name, surely the chamberlain will snitch on the prince and tell the king. If the king is a cunning bastard, he'll use sade to blackmail mc saying that "she kidnapped sade" or something like that, the duke might help defend her but that's a temporarily issue.
As long as sade is a prince and has a home, sade will always be bound to come back to the palace, well it'd be different is the king disowned sade for being "incompetent and useless"