Beatrice

I generally don’t like huge disparities in power between FL and ML since usually FL already has to deal with patriarchal bullshit, but I gave a chance to this story anyway bc it seemed good. Now, the art is beautiful, the translation is great, and the story is well paced and well developed in most ways. But it’s also just full of hypocrisies. ML is actually pretty shitty – not the shittiest of them, but still – since he not only does harass women (sexually with the intent to humiliate), but he also obviously allows for his subordinates to do the same, to the point that right at the beginning FL (a princess from a country they just conquered) is sexually harassed and threatened multiple times with rape AND being branded as a common slave (the one that gets the worst treatment) by a commoner knight (under the direct supervision of ML) no less. It’s disgusting. And then by chapter 26 she’s thinking “he’s a good person” because what? People think he’s handsome and hot, and the people that he lets run wild thinks he’s dignified. Really? Did she already forget what he did to her sister? What his underlings almost did to her? How she was unfairly treated left and right by him and everyone around him because that’s the kind of person and ruler that he is? Give me a break. I have no problems with problematic MLs, as long as the story recognize they are fucked up. To come and force FL, a slave who has been mistreated in almost every way possible, to claim that anyone even remotely linked to that mistreatment is “kind” or “good” is just beyond ludicrous.