Never really felt connection between ML and FL.
Cliché flustered female lead and confident but puppy-like and eager-to-please ML. Surrounded by men who make threats to anyone who harms the FL.
The romance with the second male lead was also rather predictable: he initially meets her out of self-interest, helps her but doesn’t know why, her power helps counteract black magic effects he’s suffering, etc, etc
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MAIN CHARACTER
⚜️Theodore Grain Lou Valdemar (ML)
- only heir to empire
- mother died by suicide
- while family death. Father has mistress
💝Judith Fergre Green (FL)
- character killed by ML in novel for harassing MC
- blushing, kind, smiley. Cliche.
- went missing as a child for a time
Kain Fergre (older brother of FL)
Tucin Feegre (younger brother of FL)
- Head of mage tower
- crazy covered in blood with a smile
♟️Icard Aswin La Valdemar (2nd ML)
- second prince
- thought to be death
- character was villain in novel
- son of emperor and mistress
- mother wanted him as emperor. Experimented on him against his will with dark magic.
- resents, feels inferior to older brother
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ASPECTS / TROPES
- ML is a rumoured tyrant
- FL reborn into loving, overprotective family
- Acts cute to stave off her family’s worst protective impulses
- Human and demon powers
- Low stakes
- He falls first
- Fast paced romance
- Chimeras, dark magic, plots
Personally, I just find the line “you have to take responsibility for taking my virginity” coming from a confident guy with a smirk, just incredibly unappealing. She’s not responsible to date him after they both agreed to have sex.
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CONTENT WARNINGS
Death, suicide (past), sex (implied), parental death, parental abuse, human experimentation