The premise of these stories never makes sense. A vital political marriage is arranged to another nation, either for support/resources necessary for survival, or to ally with a potential invader to spare the kingdom. The princess is promised. Extremely delicate political dealings with major consequences for both success and failure. The princess runs away or elopes or refuses to go, so they send the bastard/younger prince pretending to be her. It’s completely insane, tf do they think is going to happen on the marriage night, or if the groom tries to get with his bride before the wedding?! The logic that it will be less scandalous for the powerful king to find out he’s been scammed with a male bride than to try to make up an excuse to delay the marriage. And in this scenario, they’re basically throwing their prince to the wolves. I just wish authors would put a little more work into figuring out a genuine premise for this trope. I read one where it was reversed, and the princess actually transformed into a man to impersonate her brother. There either need to be solid mechanisms in place to hide their identity or a truly ruthless family that are discarding them for profit. This is so insanely risky for Kiran and it doesn’t really make sense for his supposedly loving family to so readily endanger him in that way.
The premise of these stories never makes sense. A vital political marriage is arranged to another nation, either for support/resources necessary for survival, or to ally with a potential invader to spare the kingdom. The princess is promised. Extremely delicate political dealings with major consequences for both success and failure. The princess runs away or elopes or refuses to go, so they send the bastard/younger prince pretending to be her.
It’s completely insane, tf do they think is going to happen on the marriage night, or if the groom tries to get with his bride before the wedding?! The logic that it will be less scandalous for the powerful king to find out he’s been scammed with a male bride than to try to make up an excuse to delay the marriage. And in this scenario, they’re basically throwing their prince to the wolves.
I just wish authors would put a little more work into figuring out a genuine premise for this trope. I read one where it was reversed, and the princess actually transformed into a man to impersonate her brother. There either need to be solid mechanisms in place to hide their identity or a truly ruthless family that are discarding them for profit.
This is so insanely risky for Kiran and it doesn’t really make sense for his supposedly loving family to so readily endanger him in that way.