She is constantly confused when the Male Lead doesn't behave the way she expects him (to from the novel), DESPITE spending her childhood with him and literally growing up with him. MC realized she was in a novel when they were young kids and spent a large majority of her childhood with the Male Lead yet now that she is in the Academy with him, she is constantly surprised and confused when he doesn't act or respond the way he's suppose according to in the novel. Due to MC's presence in Male Lead's childhood, he is now a yandere (completely different from his personality in the novel). It just doesn't make sense, girl you grew up with this guy, yet you still don't realize or accept that his personality is now wholly different than the novel. Sometimes it feels like she knows him very well, and other times it seems like she knows nothing about him. It really contradicts the childhood and history the two have together.

The Male Lead is really obvious with his feelings for MC, yet she is constantly making up excuses for his behavior to the point that it's so contrived and forced that nobody can believe it except for her.

I don't want to read a chapter to know someone was braiding MCs hair or how she was served tea by x.. Certain chapters were like fillers for me. Nothing was important just two people (mostly MC and someone other than ML) talking

- the cheating on test episode

She keeps saying she has to take a different route or else she will have a bad ending but I see her still sticking with the two characters (ML and Sec. ML) who can damage her. You see her contradicting herself. There was a lot of scope to make it funny but it just kept going on and on about the same "i need to leave ML and he can love heroine" and then she goes " I am so lonely" or " someone hurt me" puff ML appears but he doesnt do much.

by so blatantly challenging Prof. Lassen (and by extension, probably a lot of the traditionally-minded nobles). Historically, this did not work out for his father. Is everyone forgetting that its implied that the nobles hated Ian's commoner mother so much that some of them poisoned her to death???? The king's social influence did not save her. Being the queen did not save her. Like, let's not underestimate the lengths to which people like Lassen will go to preserve the "purity of the nobility." Ian is saved by the fact that he can plausibly deny at the time that his interference is anything but actions within the bounds of his role as StuCo president, thus reducing the urgency of the situation in the eyes of Lassen and those similar to her. That bit*h is consequently willing to bide her time to suppress Louise (which of course, backfires because Ian already had countermeasures in place after the first incident). You can bet that if she had an earlier inkling that Ian was planning on MARRYING Louise, the response would have been swifter and perhaps deadlier than expulsion and defamation.

Besides, what is character growth for? She eventually learns to lean on him after realizing that a) it's a waste not to use your resources (sort of a joke) and b) it hurts him more to put that kind of distance between them (more truthful). Is! This! Not! Character! Development!

When Claire is working to end forced marriages?? What did Simon study overseas anyway?? What about those noble families that probably still haven't gotten over the fact that there's another commoner queen??? (because the author straight up says that they haven't. see: the part when nobody who went to the academy with Louise spoke up for her when all those malicious rumors about her were rampaging across the city.) Also heck, Louise's titled maternal grandfather is coming to seek benefits shamelessly after previously disowning her mom for marrying a commoner. I guess it's not that important, but I want to know what happens next!!