I'm giving this a 6 because the art is good. (Wait, is that too high?)

But disappointed with how the story is progressing. While I love how the FL is nice and genuine and a total fluffball, there's nothing in her that sticks to me. Sadly, it's been a few days since I last read the last chapter and I already do not remember her. Oof. Which is sad because her character has a lot of potential. Like, she's nice, very kind ... and ... she's nice ....

Which brings me to the ML, who is super 10/10 eye-candy. Beautifully drawn but wow who made your character, bud.

Debating whether I should just drop this but I will wait for a few more chapters before I decide.

FL is a cinnabun that need to be protecccc. She's so cute and fluffy, and someone you want to pat. She's the Holy Mother white lotus slightly stupid type, so if you don't like these kind of cotton candy characters this manga will not work for you at all since it basically revolved around her.

ML is also the stereotypical misunderstood badboy ( virgin but hot) type. FL is quite forgiving but while he's certainly a good warlord he's not a good person at all, and if you cannot get past this huge character defect you might want to skip this novel. I'm ok with it as being a killer is a prerequisite in being a feudal lord. For me him not killing FL is a defect on his role as a warlord.

The plot is not much, just the shenanigans in FL trying to stay hidden and MLs father want to stop his son from being gay, and copious amount of MLs pecs and abs as eye candy.

Art is great. Lots of details on the dudes. Art would not be out of place in yaoi. Actually, several times the ML, to avoid getting engaged (also he has some serious misogyny due to his childhood trauma), intentionally spreads rumours that he be getting it on with his men. And the art is very veee~eery detailed at this lol.

Other than that, this was incredibly disappointing. The FL kind of grows on you due to being a generally nice person. But so far, haven't found anything redeemable about the ML yet. Like in most shoujo, there's rarely good female characters other than the FL, but there's some serious female hate here.

Like, there's one really handsome character (officer under ML) who makes really abhorrent passes at FL due to her being a slave/princess. Like actual threats of bodily harm and sexual abuse, with a few soldier lackeys riding along. There's no repercussions at all. Nor is the situation treated with more gravity. Like, wtf. I get that this is shoujo but dayuuuum, that almost made me DNF this almost immediately.

The art is one of the most beautiful out of all the manga and manhwa I am reading. Seriously gorgeous. But while the plot is fine and the pacing is good, the characters are questionable at best and downright despicable at worst. The male lead is the biggest problem here. It is the usual typical formula used by creators, in making cruel male lead likable and swoon-worthy: give him a tragic back story and make him handsome, with rippling muscles. It works most of the times but there ought to be limit somewhere. And this story does cross the line,

Art good, story is crap. Female lead is so spinless she could be a jelly fish. The only thing that even makes her relevant to the story is medical knowledge she learned in a previous life. The ML orders her killed upon first meeting because he had just finished conquering her country and wanted the princesses dead so as to be no issues in the future. Ok now had he changed his mind for a good reason maybe he would be seen as redemable. But the only reason she wasn't killed was because a subordinate said she could maybe be used as leverage in the future. Once she was found to be basically worthless as a bargaining chip she's becomes a slave. uh-huh How the hell is a relationship supposed to develop after that. I'm sorry, if someone orders my death in front of me (he even threatened to kill her on a separate unrelated issue) imma have a real hard time not seeing him as a monster no matter what circumstances arises in the future. Also,side characters, almost all of them treat slaves as crap. Every little offense gets the FL locked up or almost beaten for some dumb reason. So weak FL a**hole ML and sorry a** side characters. So yeah it's crap. Read at your own risk.

The artwork is undeniably beautifully done. It's really rare to find details like this, so 10/10 for art! However the actual dialogue is cringeeeee-y. The plot is interesting but whew, every single thought is written out! There's no finesse to it. I'm still going to continue following it, but not much expectations for the future dialogue.