And Ayla agrees with me! Almost word for word!
ML can't think his way out of a wet paperbag.
In ch 23, when the bitch cousin is all feverish, Ayla says ML should stay with the cousin to feed and care for her.
Instead of using his own argument that he'd harangued Ayla with about Hyme's "inappropriate" actions of catching Ayla before she fell down the stairs, which might actually have saved Ayla's life at the time, to resolve this situation: "No, I should not. I'm a married man. My cousin is a young woman under our roof without a chaperone. Our staff is competent enough to care for her. If she doesn't want to eat that's her choice. I can't stay and feed her like a child that she very clearly is not."
Instead of saying something like the above, this bitch-ass little twat looks all jealous that Ayla doesn't care for him and goes silent.
This is the second strike. Frustrating. The first one was the situation with Hyme. ML didn't reprimand his cousin for knocking Ayla aside on the staircase where Ayla could have fallen.
Neither did he show any gratitude to Hyme for saving Ayla.
He supposedly couldn't see what happened but he certainly saw Ayla come down the stairs before his cousin just fine and managed to see Hyme catch Ayla from falling in 4D but he "couldn't" see his cousin pushing Ayla aside in the middle of that?
Nah. I don't buy whatever this author is selling.
ML gets better. Waaaay better. It literally happens within 2 chapters very early on. Then again it's been noted that he's a hopeless romantic.
Am I being too much for calling the cousin a bitch? I don't think so. She's even worse. She never thought how her infatuation would turn out. Never gave face to her own cousin or even Ayla who's literally of royal blood.
Like, immaturity is a thing, sure, okay let's go with that but are we going to keep giving this kind of excuse for these kinds of characters? That's some shitty character building, Dearest Author.
If she actually had a plan and was following through I might have respected her ambitions but nah. She's just a dumb, country bumpkin of a bitch.
Thankfully ML, who's the dumbest bitchy asshole in all of this, maybe sort of pulled his head out of his ass for the bare minimum of making absolutely certain this bitch understood he wants nothing to do with her. She needs to stop her delusional fantasies. Also, this asshole smartly said all of this to the bitch in front of Ayla. FINALLY.
Ayla is a doormat. She's been betrayed so much in her first life that she's just going through the motion. Still. Still. She's still letting dumb shit happen to her despite being the one that holds all the power in this life. Damn, girl.
ML's bestie, Count Setler, is a world-class shit stirrer, too. LMFAO I love him, Your Honor.
I swear, none of the named, unattached men in this are unproblematic. Looking at you, Crown Prince.
Ayla's dad for the win! A decent RoFan papa from the get-go? Amazing.
Also, the artwork is soft and pretty, very inoffensive. Nothing jaw dropping or even memorable except for the weird face shapes and close-set eyes. I would normally adore eyes that small and more realistically proportioned but the way they're pulled so close towards the nonexistent nose is...no. My sense of aesthetics felt violated with this style.
Hyme, Ayla's knight guard, is bizarrely better looking from every angle than the ML. So is the crown prince.
I'm sorry, I'm a shallow basic bitch. I can't help thinking that if I can fix those two things then the art would be really nice.
Skipped to ch 90 and the art glow-up is crazy. Wow. The issue with the eyes and the face is almost fixed now. Good. Very good.
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