It really is some kind of mental and behavioral illness. Nothing else can explain how this FL is so...treasured. These men (and some women) were saved exactly once, and they go on to immediately develop a life-long attachment syndrome over it. Damn.
The little red-headed boy, I understand. She repeatedly saved him in some spectacular, memorable circumstances. Even the Emperor/Dan's attachment sort of makes sense.
FL's pheromones are God-tier apparently.
In ch 7 the Emperor:
"Watching her with no hesitation, reminded me of someone for some reason.
"Someone I hadn't thought of in a long time."
Are you kidding me, Emperor?
What do you mean "someone you hadn't thought of" when all you've been doing for 2 chapters straight is thinking of this "someone"?
You, quite literally, was just talking to the spy who you ordered to search your entire empire for this "someone" several times over in the immediate speech bubble above this internal monologue?!?
These poor bastards were turning every brothel, mine, slave auction, etc inside out! You've even ordered them to go through neighboring kingdoms with a finetoothed comb, looking for this "someone".
The sheer cognitive disconnect is giving me whiplash.
Is this shitty translations? Or is it just shitty writing?
Aaaand here we go with the bizarre, racist othering of people with dark skin again. I knew it. The tanned character "Hekard" is explicitly described as "well-behaved, admirable beast" and "animalistic".
JFC. Western (looking at you Sarah J Maas) and Eastern Romance Fantasy without the "dark aggressor" trope mission: Impossible.