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I read many comments saying that the heroine is mean to the 8th prince Rutger or that they don't understand her animosity.
Let's remember together that she had been mistreated in his house by his staff, to his total indifference. She was ignored by him and he didn't say a word of affection or kindness, more like he didn't speak to her even when she wanted to interact with him. He then went to war, leaving her pregnant and unprotected and she was sent to the dungeons as a traitor seemingly on his orders. There, she was tortured and after knowing he came back victorious, she begged to be released. Her sister who hates her and has tormented her her whole life gleefully expresses that she will be killed with her child and it has been arranged by her husband because he wants to marry her, the sister.
She was about to be killed in truth when Rutger came back looking all distraught.
As readers, we can say that it's most probably all a misunderstanding (although, really, most of that is easily avoidable and should have been avoided) BUT she doesn't know that. She thinks he betrayed her. Also, her love for him probably withered a long time ago in the face of his utter coldness.So she has reason to hate him.
As for the present child Rutger, he is extremely shrewd and sly (though inexperienced) and he engineered many of their encounters. She makes it clear that she dislikes him and she has a right to her opinion. She never abuses him in any way, just makes clear that he is not her favorite person to which he responds by clinging to her and following her around. He even follows her to her house where she finally feels safe and harasses her. Keep in mind, they haven't ever been properly introduced and we don't know why Rutger likes her in the first place. The first time we see him, he's spying on her from afar, already into her and we don't know why.
That child is like 10
Multiple points here.
First off:
- too much sex. I know, it's THAT kind of manga but I had hopes. It's the way it's always the same and is so repetitive that if you've seen it once you've seen it 100 times. The only time it was different was the first time because it was BAD SEX.
Second:
- Why is it bad, you say? Because he raped her that's why. There's not even the usual "but her body liked it" trope. It doesn't make things better but the guy forced himself on her, hurt her, did it again and again and was BAD at it. Then he proceeded to do it until he got better at it and we see the reimergence of the "I don't want it but my body does" trope.
Third:
- She falls in love? Really? What about him is worthy of such an emotion. The guy raped you, has no idea how to show any emotion whatsoever. Before that, he forced you into an unwanted marriage. And so fast too! Like two chapters in, she's feeling things because slot A entered slot B? And how did she notice? By fending off unwanted attention from this guy's "friend" whom we never see again the other 12 chapters.
Fourth:
The marriage is an epic failure in which she gets a glass of water thrown at her by his jilted lover but actually she's barely an acquaintance. Then how did she end up in the wedding and why are you spraying the wife???? So instead of defending her, he stands around uselessly even though he's the cause. The FL then sprays water on him for...uh I don't know why, basically for putting her in that situation maybe? And then he dumps two bottles of water(I hope) on top of her telling her he always pays back twice. Wooohoo
Fifth :
You know how I said the friend never reappears? The author does this all the time with barely developped ideas, rouge sketches thrown here and there with no real meaning and no purpose. She sees her family maybe once, his family comes and we Learn he has mommy issues and a stepmom but that's barely adressed (where is his mom? Dead? Divorced? Why did she treat him this way? We don't know). The little sister is hostile to her for no reason and for no reason turns tsundere at the end of the visit of the parents "who won't come back for a while" for "business".
Excuse me, what? Thing is they had absolutely no impact whatsoever, none, neither as antagonists or helpers.Just feels like the author will try out EVERY TROPE and see which one sticks. There's the pianist who sees his late wife in her (we see him for two episodes and then poof he disappears), there's the "I forgot my money so let me work here" trope even though their food and board was already paid for by mysterious pianoman. So free labour even though you're an upper class lady with a high ranked husband who's working non stop. So on vacation, when you don't HAVE TO, you make him work as a servant in a hôtel. Cool, cool, cool....and then the next Day, she finds her money again. Pffffffff, real life consequences? Whyyyy?
And to finish:
The Last chapters are the most annoying with a young lady visibly coming onto him with the help of her father. Here the inconsistencies are EVERYWHERE!!!!!
Not to mention the extraordinary chance encounters. So the husband meets russian daughter of military chief A and she falls for his looks basically. She's swooning and the dad wants to make it happen even though he himself forced our male character to marry in order to get that sweet promotion. (Why didn't you just introduce him your daughter then if you liked him so much that you would interfere in a MARRIAGE?)
SAME TIME, he is supposed to be deployed to Russia and wifey decides to learn russian to stay with him. Who's the russian teacher? Take a guess. Russian daughter A of course. They become friends and they confide in each other and wifey tells her to go for it not knowing who the man she wanted was blablabla.
When A learns that he's married and to her "dear friend" (like she really didn't know shit about him if she didn't know he was married, he wasn't trying to hide it AT ALL and EVERYONE RANDOM MOB knew he was married) she gets mad at...wifey????!!!! My laaady, you're the homewrecker here!!!!! Just kindly forget about it all and apologize on your knees. (Of course this didn't happen huh).
Well after loooots of drama, looots of A trying to do inappropriate things to him ( and man, where did your spunk go ML? Weren't you supposed to give back twice? Instead, he gently tells her no even when she attacks him frontally and physically. Keep in mind, the FL had accused him of being an enemy to women because he was so blunt in rejecting a love confession when they first met that he was making the lady sob.), we have the father/chief have a talk with FL and tell her to divorce her husband cause his daughter is so much better and shit. "She's from à good family and speaks russian" is basically all the justification.
FL is also from a good family or she wouldn't have had to marry the guy from the start! The inconsistencies are...blatant. Also, after she relents and leaves home (...no comment that is just plain stupid especially after having so much sex and no birth control, potentially pregnant. The hell are you doing lady?) WITHOUT A WORD TO HER HUSBAND BY THE WAY, she catches a thief ( I'm telling you trope sandwich) and tries to throw her ring in the water (clichés over clichés) in the port her husband should have left from to Russia (and surprise?) He didn't leave, wasn't even mad at her and proceeds to throw away his whole career by resigning. At which point he is offered a promotion which will let him stay in headquarters and not leave to Russia.
First of all, he came BEGGING not to go to Russia and accepted DEMOTION and you said NO. Now, you're rewarding insubordination??? I feel like the author was too lazy to research anything about Russia apart from the Borscht and didn't want him leaving (trope abandonnent issues really). Second, the FL gave divorce papers to the chief as though he were an authority in marriages. He is not, he's a military commander and how could à divorce be pronounced in less than two weeks especially since the ML didn't sign shit? Obviously wouldn't ever work.
Indeed this had no good points.