at the very least he did decide to move on from his so called first love before realizing she is rine instead of going with the cliche ‘oh my first love turns out to be my wife so i don’t have to move on, we’re destined to be together’ route or another annoying misunderstanding :/ that’s like the bare minimum but i’ll take it ig. agree with other comments tho, he still gotta beg for forgiveness.
originally wanted to drop it right after THE EMPEROR aka ml was KNEELING in front of her brother but decided to keep reading cause the art is so pretty. but damn, the story is so cringe and bad written. it’s like written by a middle schooler who knows NOTHING about historical setting… no proper mannerism etc etc. basically a slop.











based on prologue the duke is most likely the main li, which i hate it cause it’s already chapter 50+ and so far he’s got the LEAST chemistry with mc imo ;—; i want johan to be the endgame (he has the most interesting background and lore for me) but i’ll be fine with the crown prince cause at least his character is different from other cold city namja mls out there and he got decent chemistry + screentime with mc. the duke on the other hand…..
maybe cause we haven’t seen much about his character background too but well, IF he’s really the endgame i hope the author will make him get deeper writing and decent reasons for mc to end up choosing him otherwise it’ll be another slop :/
Johan & Alex set the bar too high for Duke to top them ngl, especially Johan ugh bro is arguably in the disadvantage here but still managed to stole the show with so little screentime ( & probably in the future aswell ) given to him and he did that with barely any crumbs from his lore for us to sympathize too