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He initially gets married to her because of that. But grows to love her for her honesty & sincerity.
The twisted background that will be mentioned later on is just another level. Our ml is originally a Duke from the empire. The saintess travels from earth to their world & a lot of things happen in between.
Eventually, she misses earth & tricks the ml into following her to earth. You see, the empire only has 2 known esper (crown prince & the Duke, who is the ml) But no guide. So the saintess becomes a saintess because she has guiding powers. Saintess lies & tells them about how she can bring numerous guides from earth to the empire if only the Duke (ml) comes with her to earth. He does & then realises that she won't travel back anymore.
Ml (who was originally) a Duke of another world (in an empire), is now an indentured labourer under the Korean govt. He is forced to enter the worst dungeons without the right to refuse. He was almost forcefully bonded with the saintess but their compatibility is below 20% if I recall correctly.
The Korean govt. kept bringing in guide after guide to bond them with the ml, so that he would be obedient. It would make it easier to control him if his bonded was a Korean citizen & he'd obey orders just to protect his guide. One of the guides introduced was our female mc (she was from the defence or military, a special agent I think).
Now you can understand, why our ml acted the way he did. He didn't trust her 1 bit.
Moreover, despite all that, the female mc never once tried to understand where he was from. Who he really was? Why he was always so paranoid & angry? Can you actually claim to love someone if you don't know any of this?! I don't think so.
And why was she so naive & oblivious? I think military attracts a lot of people but naive & oblivious would never work. The female mc had simply assumed he was a foreigner. (⊙…⊙ )So, she never even tried to find out about him. Who his family was? Which country he was from? Didnt try to find out anything. Her justification was that he would not answer her, when she asked. There are other ways to find out information for the highly motivated!!! It doesn't always have to 1st hand info. He was from another dimension for goodness sake! She acted like she lived in isolation. She was a special agent. She should have had contacts of some kind. But zilch!
Her so-called love was like a school girl who was crazy about a k-pop idol & eventually married them. She remained star-struck & never tried to treat her husband as a human being in the 1st place. Like I'm so fucking angry that someone like this decided to get married. Her husband suffered his entire time in Korea & she never even know or noticed. What a partner she was!
And as if that wasn't enough misery on its own, in this life (2nd life), the female mc will have the ml groveling like a worm. She won't forgive him but will continue to mentally torture him for many chapters to come.
I was in so much discomfort reading about a
grown men groveling, crying pathetically on his knees for a woman who didn't deserve it! I could understand the whole process if she truly suffered & if he truly had committed a crime. But in truth, he suffered & she lived obliviously in both lifetimes expecting payment from a person just because she loved them. Love is not license for expectations. True love is sacrifice & suffering. This female mc certainly didn't know how to love.
It's just me again, if the circumstances were different, the emotions & characters could be lighter. But one could literally read the desperation & helplessness of the ml in every line of this story.
This is not the story of a strong ml like in most shoujo mangas. He is not the strong northern duke. This is the story of a sad man taken away from his entire world, to be distrusted & given half-baked love by the partner who claimed to love him. So yeah, I felt very sorry for him. For he was a very lonely person. Which is ironic because the female mc claimed he made her so lonely. She had friends who spoke her language, her colleagues who spoke her language, she was living in her own planet & everything she knew since she was a child