There's never an inbetween with side couples. They either overshadow the main couple with how good their chemistry is, or completely trainweck a portion of the story for being complete ass/mid and it's a pain to wait out the end of their arc so we get back our main couple. In this case, the side couple is def leaning towards the latter lol
I didn't know this was gonna get a manga adaptation, but hmmmm...
Iirc in the novel there was a very dub-con/r word intercourse scene in the first few chapters after the prince asked mc for an aphrodisiac. After that, I just resorted to skimming through it out of morbid curiosity. (The prince literally says he fell for mc after mc started putting a wall between them, yk the whole thing of him acting very blasé about the situation. Mind you this was right after throwing himself at the mc.) It's basically every smut villainess isekai manga except BL version, so if that's your thing and you dgaf about the very questionable first time, this will probably be your thing.
I will say there's a ton of extras so I wonder if the manga will just adapt the main story, or main story + extras + extras of side couples?






I feel like I'm the only one that didn't really care for the duke and duchess' side plot like I was begging for their arc to end like no offense I feel like we got too much of them and not enough of our cute mc... I mean yes we're in a school arc now but I bet there's gonna be another 25 chapters or so that completely derails from it to focus on smth else about the duke and duchess