I can already tell the shit cliche writing coming.... emotionless (seemingly) Prince Jax eventually sees Sophia in a better light cause of her hard work, he falls for her, she falls for him... if it goes that way I'm going to be really pissed at the bad cliche writing. The premise is interesting, things could go far better with a revenge story with a clever princess working to stir up tensions and rebellion in North Langston (the way they used the rebellions in West Langston to kill her father and ruin her). That'd be so much better, but no... we're gonna get shit cliche writing because, let's be honest, korean and chinese stories can't seem to help but have anything other than Female Lead end up with Male Lead because the writing is terrible lol.
Also, fuck the princes, I hate them all. All of them so far, I'm sure the last we haven't seen will be just as bad even if he's not as bad as the other shit heads.
I really really hope I'm wrong. I'm still going to read and enjoy elements of this, but I can already see how this will likely go and, if it goes that way, I will be sorely disappointed. I might just be overly critical atm, but I am so tired of asshole characters ending up with the FL just cause they are the ML. That's gotta stop as a shitty trope/cliche. It's time for writers to learn how a character would ACTUALLY feel in a situation and wouldn't be "swayed by their handsomeness and cause they are slightly better" when they LITERALLY ARE WHY YOUR FAMILY IS DEAD AND YOUR LIFE WENT TO SHIT!
Think of it this way, would you? If so, I have zero respect for you.