"What is broken cannot be restored."
That's a Perfect Solution Fallacy. Very little can be restored to their exact previous state, but most things can be mended to an acceptable degree, and some things can even become stronger that they ever were once repaired. Unless you think the risk of making things worse is too high, you should at least make an attempt.
Not sure why, but I just love that mildly perturbed feeling in the bottom left of page 13. That kind of irritated but not offended thing. It also shows they can interact like normal human beings and not just after standard pre-relationship romance beats.
Her greatest weakness: Homemade macarons.
Humiliate her, a.k.a. not playing her games.
That's one of the best arguments against her talking behind someone's back. She would just say it directly.
More just jealous than playing their political games. Honestly more relatable.
Kinda funny that the first you see her without an eyepatch after the chapter, she has that eye closed.
The people around the “heroine” are beyond cult-like.
Considering how extreme cults can be, it's kind mid in that regard.
Really do love Duke as a love interest. He’s actually useful and competent and has a genuinely good reason to like Alicia.
Yeah, she basically represents the life he wants, and instead of getting jealous (which is a reasonably common plot), he tries to get in on the action and support her. Far better than the too common, "she was nice to me," or, "she once treated me like a normal person and didn't suck up to me." Those can work, but they're overdone IMO, and often just hashed out to get them over with.