The story starts with the ml wanting a fake wife so he is free to live as he pleases. After being raised to be a perfect ducal heir (by parents who are introduced as kind and well meaning), he develops a personality that forces everyone else to comply with his whims wherever he can and sees no problem with this. Even his lover is someone he fell in love with because she wasn’t interested in him and treated him as an amusement. He threw aside his duties for someone who never seemed to even love him back. I really liked the fl, as someone who saw through this behavior and decided that it simply wasn’t her problem. She accepted occasional annoyances in exchange for also living how she pleased, but as the story goes on, the ml shifts his interest to her. He invades her space with no consideration for her or their staff (Yes, I know it’s his house, but it isn’t his routine). He suddenly decides he loves his fake wife and of course she should simply love him back. After seeing him one-sidedly alter their contract, and the fl only managing to tell him off for his bad eating habits instead of the way he treats people, I had to drop the story. I’m not interested in watching him get rewarded for his bs or the fl get forced into changing to suit him.
The story starts with the ml wanting a fake wife so he is free to live as he pleases. After being raised to be a perfect ducal heir (by parents who are introduced as kind and well meaning), he develops a personality that forces everyone else to comply with his whims wherever he can and sees no problem with this. Even his lover is someone he fell in love with because she wasn’t interested in him and treated him as an amusement. He threw aside his duties for someone who never seemed to even love him back.
I really liked the fl, as someone who saw through this behavior and decided that it simply wasn’t her problem. She accepted occasional annoyances in exchange for also living how she pleased, but as the story goes on, the ml shifts his interest to her. He invades her space with no consideration for her or their staff (Yes, I know it’s his house, but it isn’t his routine). He suddenly decides he loves his fake wife and of course she should simply love him back.
After seeing him one-sidedly alter their contract, and the fl only managing to tell him off for his bad eating habits instead of the way he treats people, I had to drop the story. I’m not interested in watching him get rewarded for his bs or the fl get forced into changing to suit him.