I feel like she only went back to him because he almost died, and I hate this kind of ending. There are things you can never truly forgive, and being around that person will only bring back bad memories.

It was handled in such a superficial way. I understand it’s a side story, but she wasn’t even trying to get pregnant — and suddenly, not only does it happen, but she’s immediately excited and happy about it. It felt so unrealistic. It’s natural for someone to feel shocked or need time to process something like that. It also feels strange because it goes against so much of what was built in the story. The ML didn’t want kids, and the FL never even talked about wanting to be a mother. It just feels like something they added because they thought that’s what the audience wanted.

She give the duke some medicine by using her own mouth when in fact she can actually do it with her own hands. 😒

never saying I love you or never making her his official fiance. He didn't confirm anything and left all the school work to FL.

The side stories didn't give any info about the other MLs after the last mess. They must be traumatized, I really wondered how they must be dealing with their past...

Lucien. The blondie with blue eyes. A young boy who was sent to this bonding school prison by a cousin he trusted but betrayed him to try and take the duchy. He's 18 at the beginning of the story and starts off rightfully a bit prickly but he is the soft boy type. As of this part of the story, he is definitely the most morally good one. We don't see that much of him though because he's mostly locked up. He's a bit mischievous and gets excited like the kid he is when FL tells him she dumped wine on his evil cousin for being a skeeze to women.

Dante. Black hair, red eyes. The ultimate villain, lord of the underworld and the Elze's lover. He is a love or hate ML-- for anyone who does like him best he is the problematic fave. He is the typical obsessed yandere type. He's kinda childish and only nice to people he likes.

He starts kind of indifferent, and is legitimately someone Elze should be afraid of. However, he catches the "interesting" bug because of FLs new antics and his appreciation that she is showing him "genuine" consideration. He starts to become yandere-defensive of FL. While at first he defends her because of his own reputation, he starts to do it because he feels offended that people are disrespecting her. He also gets really clingy. He becomes kind of considerate too-- he apologizes to FL for always smoking around her later on in the story. He's not a coercive person-- when FL said no the first time he complied. This is because his mother was SA'd, he was the result, and she eventually ended herself (saying she hated him). He as a 7-year-old found her dead in the bathtub with her wrists slit after the servants refused her order to kill him. He understands she suffered from mental issues and thinks of her fondly. It is probably part of the reason why he stopped the original Elze from ending herself and took her in/defended her from her family despite not caring about her.

I appreciate that he's not a really flat and stoic person. I am kind of guessing that if this is not a true harem-- he will be ML. He also has a funny aide Liam, who is kind of like his nanny. Don't get me wrong, he's a bad person. But he's a bad person you can still root for.

Benedict. Brown-haired, violet eyes. The information network master, a businessman. His information guild is disguised as a pie shop. He first gets connected to FL when she approaches him to tell him valuable information from the story. She earns his trust and she makes a deal with him to accumulate her slush fund (she does not tell him what she is planning and always tells him about women and mystery to block questions).

He is becoming attracted too, and does help her out at times from the shadows but he is rational and believes it's not his place to publicly defend her from people insulting her.

she thinks Lucian is very pretty, she has a strange sense of love (she thinks is from the original Elze) that makes it difficult for her to brush off Dante, and she thinks of Benedict as useful/reliable.