i just binged to catch up after a long break and oh boy is that fiancé worse than I remembered. He crushes entire families over some petty bullshit their kid said and then has the audacity to be offended by the fact that none of them (as in anyone he does this to) like his true personality after he harmed their family while personally threatening them. He’s gonna be the cause of a revolution if he’s ever without Bakarina’s plot armour saving the day.
I normally don’t care too much who is paired up with whom, but he needs to have his engagement forcibly dropped in a reversed otome style judgement trial asap if only for the irony that he’d have paired well with the original Katerina.
She‘s also in stage 4 homodenial with the heroine. There is no other competition.
It wasn't just "petty bullshit their kid said". She asked her father to run a smear campaign, which he willingly obliged. That kid's parents tried to ruin Katarina and her family for the sake of their daughter.
The prince also didn't complain once about people not liking him. You're just making stuff up now or have really misread something. He actually complained that people kept projecting the image of a perfect prince onto him and wanted more people to see the real him.
Honestly, his worst qualities only show up because Katarina is so unaware and, if I'm being honest, stupid. He's her fiancée and everyone around him is splitting them up—she isn't aware of it—and he just grins and bears it because he doesn't want to hurt her friendships.