The story is centered around the POV of the FL, but we are still privy to things she is not as readers. WE saw that suspicious smirk of the ex fiancé, she did not, we saw art of the princess and hints of the crown prince, she did not. The FL has known her ex-fiancé for a long time and has been given no outward reason to doubt him. She’s not naive, that would be her immediately believing anything the ML says at this point. She’s going off all the available information she has, and with everything she has seen and experienced— it points to the ML. We as the readers know to expect some kind of twist, but I commend her for not immediately giving up or even killing herself. The ML has done NOTHING to warrant her believing him or even thinking he might be a halfway decent person. Their first meeting was her seeing him with a bloody sword in front of her parents in their burning house, the second was him blackmailing her into sleeping with him, aka raping her.
The ex-fiancé is obviously suspicious, but after the blatant rape and abuse of power the ML has been displaying toward the FL, also the total lack of regard for her feelings or emotional state despite claiming to “love” her… I’m only rooting for the FL to kill everyone and live happily alone. Going to need some MAJOR groveling from ML to even tease the idea of wanting them together.
The story is centered around the POV of the FL, but we are still privy to things she is not as readers. WE saw that suspicious smirk of the ex fiancé, she did not, we saw art of the princess and hints of the crown prince, she did not. The FL has known her ex-fiancé for a long time and has been given no outward reason to doubt him. She’s not naive, that would be her immediately believing anything the ML says at this point. She’s going off all the available information she has, and with everything she has seen and experienced— it points to the ML. We as the readers know to expect some kind of twist, but I commend her for not immediately giving up or even killing herself. The ML has done NOTHING to warrant her believing him or even thinking he might be a halfway decent person. Their first meeting was her seeing him with a bloody sword in front of her parents in their burning house, the second was him blackmailing her into sleeping with him, aka raping her.
The ex-fiancé is obviously suspicious, but after the blatant rape and abuse of power the ML has been displaying toward the FL, also the total lack of regard for her feelings or emotional state despite claiming to “love” her… I’m only rooting for the FL to kill everyone and live happily alone. Going to need some MAJOR groveling from ML to even tease the idea of wanting them together.