A 100% agree, the politics make no sense but I'm still sticking around for the FL, she's very cute and soft spoken albeit a bit simple. Still something we don't often see (compared to adorkables) and I'm curious to why ML is so mad in love, a flashback scene would be nice to explain that
Yea, I been ranting but I will devour this slop. I usually don't mind a timid, insecure FL but the writing around her environment just makes her look like a token victim character written to be the way she is so the author can justify having a whole bunch of filler where she and ML do nothing but be happy and flirt.
At the same time, hey. Maybe there will be more once she takes the initiative in politics. I hope.
The story is oookaaay. It def falls into all the tropes you can think of for the usual shoujo rofan slop, but it at least is being good about giving FL and her immidiate surrounding ppl substance to chew on - so the bare minimum. I like how we're following FL through the process of slowly being cornered and then finding her voice with the help of ML, but that's as far as originality goes here. It's also very nice how FL's sister isn't just another token white lotus bitch, but again, we're scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of inspiring brain mass.
I also hate how... for a lack of a better word, frail victorian child coded her speech and everything about her is. ML will be talking like a bro and she's pulling out the "m'lord thee shan't be tardy, I beg of thee". Maybe it's the translation, but it just set me off.
Worst offender: world building, it's so bare bones that you have no choice but to accept the nonsensical feeling pollitics. Like I get it's a must that FL is oh so hated and ostracized to make her eventual liberation feel as satisfying as possible, but you think some of this shit over and arrive at the only logical conclusion:
This is some fucking cartoon ass yeehaw we be fucking racist eye-colorism bullshit with a whole lot of nothing on top.
And don't get me started on how much of a pussy move it is to invent an eye color of all things for these ppl to be racist at, that's a whole other can of worms.
Oh and surprise, there is magic btw. Magic which changes eyecolor too. Why tf did that stank ass daddy not consider this for the bastard he wants to scrape onto imperial property so she stays put? Discombobulate, think smth else you peasant.
Like bro for the love of christ explain ONCE why the emperor is okay with his grandkids potentially having those filthy green eyes. What about his beloved authority is not being hurt by accepting that one lady with the reputation equivalent to nuclear waste into his family? Nvm all these nobles actively, OPENLY, sharting on what is supposed to be the future empress - as the imperial backing political party? How in the ungodly fuck are none of these nobles thinking about how they talk about the future mother of their nation, or that maybe they should be pressuring the crown to consider literally anyone else since she's oh so bad.
You can't tell me an allaince with that one family is so fire, also considering it's barely even an alliance with how FL is being treated by her family.
...That felt good.