I'm sure there will be strife there, but honestly I don't him actually getting his shit together will suddenly turn into a dealbreaker. His main issue, and the thing she keeps calling him out for, is propensity to keep trying to pretend being something he's not.
She'll definitely be jealous if...
Man, his friends suck. lol
I know it's a trope of the friends in comedy series to get jealous that the MC is seemingly getting attention from a girl, but they actually got him in trouble.
@HYBRID_BEING
For real, it's super fucking insufferable. The female lead can't so much as breathe next to another dude before commenters start pissing their pants crying "NO, NTR?!"
@LuminousAzael Mary believes her family has accumulate to much power and sway in the kingdom, to the point where their authority threatens even the Royal Family and her fear is other families will try to abused this to their own advantage. And even if she were to become the head, it wouldn't be...
I like that they did hold out and wait until she was out of school, even if the parents were apparently on board with the idea. That's a level of maturity a lot of these age gap romance stories skip out on.