Author was just like "I think I'm done telling this backstory. 'And then he met Roy and reunited with two others in the span of 4 hours. It was an amazing coincidence.'"
This is a In Another World With My Smartphone situation and it pisses me off when the girls blame the MC. Like, what, should he just be an asshole to everyone so no one’s falls in love with him? He hasn’t sought out any of these girls, everything comes from them, yet they want to hold him...
Perhaps the tavern will get shut down for a different, not-bad reason and then the later event won't have Tasha as the antagonist but some other person the prince slighted at a different time?
I can't really figure out why they want to be with him so badly. I mean, if they marry him wouldn't their lives be pretty terrible? He'd come home from work and go right to sleep, then get up for dinner and then go back to sleep, then get up for a bath and then go back to sleep, and then get up...
I specifically said that slavery still exists in other countries, and to be clear it's technically still legal for criminals in the US where it was "abolished". What point are you trying to make?