On re-reading this I noticed something. No matter how much of a flirt and how enticing Rosa was as a teenager what Sophia's brother did is called rape. What Leo did, then and later, was to blame her for it. Another point I noticed when Leo was getting all horndog and still thought the FL was his first cousin: the family is traditional Italian and therefore almost certainly Catholic. The Catholic Church does not condone cousin marriage and regards sex between cousins as incest.
I've never understood this trope about men sharing relationship details with their buds. "I only married her because she's pregnant." Okay, Butthead, it may have slipped past your pitiful little brain, but you just betrayed your wife. I have had disagreements and misunderstandings with my wife, but I never even told my father, mother, or sister, to say nothing of some pal. It's as though all these "high class" types the authors write about have all the couth, loyalty, and delicacy of a drug dealer living in an abandoned mobil home. I guess that the spirit behind, "Never kiss and tell" is long gone from our society these days. What's next, something like, "Hey Bro, let me show you the nude sneak pictures I took of my wife."
The very nadir of Harlequin style "romance," with all the ML's going past mere stereotypes into total cliches of toxically chauvinistic, misogynistic, and entitled playboys who believe they have the absolute right to have sex with any woman who catches their fancy. Basically caricatures of those for whom date rape is a way of life.
I like it. A Betty Neels story where the doctor wasn't an idiot. She CAN create an ML that isn't so stupid that I want to kick him!
This double-header by Susan Meier was a real breath of fresh air after the toxic family stories. Her stories are always pretty decent and interesting.
He was so twisted that they probably had to bury him in a corkscrew shaped grave. Just the fact that his children could believe that he might have murdered the mother of his illegitimate child tells me all that I need to know about him. All three stories with the posthumous letter about how "I made you all miserable and turned you into untrusting douchebags all for your own sakes" are ludicrous. I'm sorry, but irredeemable is the only adjective I can think of for him.
Well, so far (chap 8) the super masculine absolute monarch is getting metaphorically spanked and set in the corner by his “advisers,” and if the beautiful princess has anything to say about it, she’ll be riding him around the palace while wearing S&M boots and spurs. I’m waiting to see if he can make any real decisions and take charge of anything other than kidnapping an innocent young girl.
Actually, this manga has been on this site for years, complete, under the title “A Man for Megan.”
All the comments have been talking about what an a**hole the ML is, and they are pretty much spot on. He is also a flaming moron.
Him: You can leave whenever you want.
Her: If you’re hoping I’ll leave. Don’t. I won’t.
Him (to himself): Now that I think about it, of course she wouldn’t.
No matter what she says or how she acts, his little pea-brain makes it fit into his preconceived ideas. If she leaped into a raging torrent to save someone, his reaction would be something along the lines of “What a show off bitch. She’ll do anything to get attention, but she won’t fool me.”
To those who absolutely hate this because it isn't 24 and 7 mayhem and murder, or the dramatic and tender love story (a la Manon Lascaut) to end them all - just go on to something else. The whole point of this manga is to be hilarious, silly, ecchi fluff. It definitely succeeds at that. It's broad comedy, and you're supposed to read it for the laughs.
This^^
Couldnt have said it better