This thing is developing at a normal human pace. All yall that waiting for insta-love are clearly still children or need to let this marinade for a bit before reading.
From FL POV: ML is rich, handsome, from a high-ranking family, has other high-class women lining up for marriage AND has a cunt for a mom that told FL to stay away because her low social status and her lack of physical perfection/social breeding will bring him and his family trouble. And given the country the story is set in *that's probably TRUE.*
*What* about any of this would inspire a sudden metric ton of trust from a woman that has never been anyone's #1, not even in her own family? They treated her like a servant when she was at the temple even though she was essentially volunteering because she's a good kid.
ML very conveniently didn't know (?!) that his mother is a meddling rat who was always scheming in the background so he never clarified for FL, who knew that he was already waaaaay out of her league, that she shouldn't listen to word his mom said because he doesn't intend to filial and would marry whoever he wants regardless. To FL he came off like a fuckboy that was just playing around with her and now that shit is getting heavy and he's showing that he's actually serious, she has no idea how to handle it. This is exactly how a person with a fucked up family background would react.
what I like about the ML is he did not and will not tolerate his mother's actions because it clearly shows from the past chapters.
I also just want FL to be free from her suppressed emotions and (ml) letting her doing what she wants, it's in her decision now whether if she uses that opportunity or not.
I was hoping he'd go back to the States just one more time and put his so-called "father" in the fucking hospital, that's the parent that deserved it most.
The idea that scumbag actually THINKS he has any right to utter a single word to or about the son he nearly wrecked is so galling I'm surprised his own self-aggrandizement didn't choke him in his sleep. Would been a karmic ending for him.
Ugh. Yall have NO patience! Does it look like she's in a place to say "no" to Mad and Madder? OBVIOUSLY she loves Alfonso but he has dogshit employees, clearly. Also, it's a different universe where Cesare isn't quite fully the rotten bastard that he was before, she's having difficulties with that. He clearly has the same flaws in him waiting to come out but they haven't yet and maybe never will because SHE'S a different person now. Everything she does affects everyone around her, butterfly effect and all that. I ship a harem, yall. Let her have both. The golden retriever and the firecrotch. Maybe it'll heal her trauma from her past life.
I'm no wilting flower when it comes to stories like this but the fact she apparently goes BACK to him and they continue to have a BDSM relationship is *absolutely* fucked. You NEVER play when you're angry. He doesn't deserve to be a Dom, he fucked up in the worst way. SHE is traumatized by both her dogshit family and now him - she need THERAPY, not this selfish piece of shit who cared about revenge more than hurting an innocent bystander. There's some mistake you NEVER come back from, no second chances.











Ok but this story is great! I was not expecting it with all the AI-looking smut every chapter, glad I stuck with it.