Maybe, hopefully that would be the case. It would be so shameless to reject her as his fiance, process to still use her as his priestess, and act like nothing happened. Maybe he didn't know about the fiance rejection at all.
The world building is very refreshing! And the characters have depth in their personality. I feel relatable with the FL in terms of getting rejected and have to act as a replacement until the chosen one is free to get there. The ML so far is meh. Let's see how they justify his change of heart to...
I feel bad for her to be in this situation. The Duke seems to be the ML but I just want her to enjoy her single life with music at this point. Duke doesn't deserve a second chance after several times humiliated her like that.
You should let go of trying to control things in your life and just let things to happen. You will enjoy life more.
I don't know if you open every book, read every story with an expectation in mind before hand, and when the story, the pace doesn't go the way you prefer, you got mad and...
Or just go back to the first few chapters, most of them have the erotic version. I'm a bit disappointed that the author tones it down recently, but still enjoy the chill story and the food anyway 😆