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This feels ick. He genuinely loves her but she's "dropping hints" and using that as an excuse to end a literal nine year relationship. She didn't sit him down and say hey I don't need it now but I want a plan at least marriage is very important to me. I feel like he wasn't prejudiced or embarrassed by her, he just knows who his family is and how they are. They are also part of his business so he can't just disown them. I say this because he never his that he was dating her, he never cheated, he never even looked at another woman or agreed to date her! Like this seems like a good guy genuinely trying and messing up! And as cute as it is to think that money doesn't matter love does! Both matter that's why you'll rarely read of a protagonist who stays poor or has no skills that pay the bills. Honestly, this all could have been solved with her quitting and going home for awhile instead of breaking up with him while he's out of state and unable to do anything about it. Also have we considered all of his family troubles would be solved if she was more honest with him? Hey, your ex? She'll company hungry for your money? Hey, I'm turning 25 and I need some assurance in this relationship, family is very important to me and I know you are hiding me from yours so if this is going nowhere I need to know and I need to know by my next birthday are we going to get married eventually or not? Also on her birthday he had no time to think about that he's literally working! Give the man some actual time to breathe and think don't just text him a break up! Also, hey I'm stifled here and not living to my full potential I'm going to go work with my other degree. Btw your family's worries? I'm rich!Secondly, the ML isn't likeable! We literally see him make money, stalk her a bit and then take advantage of her while she's OBVIOUSLY drunk and emotionally compromised pressure her into marriage and then tell her essentially, now that you've made this impulsive decision I'm never going to let you go! It's creepy like what if you're stalker had rizz when you were drunk and held you to a drunk and literally unintentional promise. That is what predators do and in the demon contract way not the cute business CEO way. This story is beyond wrong.ML is the awful uninteresting character who I'm sure turns out to be so "loving" and "attentive" but this is his introduction and just no. Like in any other novel he'd be the not very well written villain. He didn't "save" her she literally could have gotten all the face slaps done without his help. He's literally just like a haunted prop in the background who decided to try to be the main protagonist and got lucky. But he's still a haunted broomstick in the end with no idea how to be an actually interesting human being.