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She always ends up in harm's way for the end goal, her lack of self-care and selfishness to gain trust and affection from ML was rather appalling. Even if it wasn't intentional for her to get hurt the first time, she was fine with adding injury onto injury or avoiding necessary medical attention/care, or exercising caution. A weird set of priorities from someone that was burning with eagerness to help but hindered herself on the way to doing so. Rather pointless if she accidentally ends up unaliving herself in the process, no?
It's not like she grew up without knowing love either. So the lack of self-care is simply reckless.
She knows he has a soft spot so it feels like she's almost intentionally standing in harm's way to evoke sympathy.
She also likes to withhold information, knowing that ML is very insecure and cautious about potential betrayals, leading up to my previous point, her in harm's way, guilt-tripping ML instead into thinking it's because he's too paranoid and not because she's too manipulative.
The most crucial turning point was the ML's change of mind to let her into his life and it was terribly narrated. We lacked his PoV so who knows what made him change his mind.
[collapse]All there is to know is how guilty he felt even though she's the one not being transparent about her motives.There was another person who was devoted to the ML, so do we know why was it MC that managed to win his heart instead of her? Who tf knows?Spoilerthat person was also quite manipulative but at least she never pushed ML to feel bad for her or some other BS, before MC came into the picture. She nursed him and accompanied him during his weakest moment and that somehow gives her a stronger MC halo than the actual one.
[collapse]I love me an assertive and aggressive FL but the way the author paints her seems so insincere, and ironically, being the unconditionally loving FL that she's supposed to be. I guess plot convenience for progression was the major and main turn-off.Don't understand ML's goals very much either.Revenge? Yes, totally can see why.Fighting for the throne? Ehhhh. Half of the plot was about the power struggle, without knowing where his ambition is coming from, lol.