They only slept together and hug each other because MC's sister-in-law figure it out they lack intimacy. They only got out and took photos as a couple because MC's coworker anted to see their photos and they only had the ones form the wedding cerimony.

Why ML and FL of this novel broke up? FL's forced herself on ML to have s*x, he wanted to do it but got his climax pretty early, so he pushes her to stop. Their lack of communication led to her thinking she s*xually ab*sed him and he tough she hated him for ejaticul*ting earlier. It's weird how this novel tells the moment they tried to have s*x and failed, but never shows or tells a moment when they kissed for the first time.

FL's maid asked for a resignation to get married, but soon got divorced. We don't know the reason, but apparently he cheated on her. She goes back to FL's house and starts to work as a maid again, but she's still bitter and annoyed that FL got engaged, even tough she knows it's fake. Even she acts like that, she always helps FL.

Akino-san (Sister-in-law). Her husband (MC's older brother) abandons her to live in America, they's are still formally married. She tries to get over him by trying to seduce MC and have an extramarital realtionship with him.

MC's senior coworker. Seems like a good guy and the only male friend that MC has, but he got divorced because he cheated on his ex-wife. He copes by hanging out to drink and going to brothels.

FL's maid was the wife of ML's coworker and they still like each other. They eventually would got back together if this series didn't got axed.

Akino (sister-in-law). Her character was tr*sh in the first volume (she just s3xually abus3d ML by toughing him in a inapropriate way and the novel tells that part as a joke). However, in the second volume she really got proper devolopment by the little time she has.

Her father also has abandoned her mother and latter got stabbed to the death by a woman, she laughed at that. Also, her kimono and appearance resembles a Black Widdow, she's the type of person who don't have high value for men due to past traumas and works to gain power in MC's family company to gain her independency. She's the main antagonist of the story.

The funniest moment of the novel is when FL tries to show that she's a good kisser by making a knot with a cherry stem, but Akino does a double knot and give tips on how to do a good kiss, but FL's realize that Akino was teaching her how to do a bl*wjob.

Kano, ML's kouhai from work who has feelings for him. She's in the story just to push FL to be more honest and make the main couple be together. It's an unecessary love triangle introduced in a story we even didn't see a proper development of the main couple. She's unecessary for the story.

So I'm going to first start off with how she keeps trying to get with the male lead, I love this genre about a forced marriage where they actually like each other since it skips a lot of the bs normal romance has but I hate how every single one of these books has some female character going after the male lead. By this I'm not refering to someone like kano in this book who just loves him, its people like akino who are activily sexually harassing them. The male lead has clearly rejected her and yet she continues to do it, and this might be a cultural difference but it pisses me off how they continue to be corduial with her after this. Not to mention the entire stalker part casually added, and for god sake I know its for plot but please can a single main character record these bit*h like people since they always play innocent on the outside.

Anyways, that rant kinda built up after reading a few of these stories back to back, ironically this is probably the one that had it the least but whatever. It depends honestly on how volume 3 is written but I really hope the akino hot spring arc does not go the way I expect it to (I'm assuming she will try to force herself on male lead or some bs like that) but I don't honestly have high hopes since JP authors seem to be very stuck with sterotypes and even with an original concept they never seem to follow through with it. I just don't understand why every single book in this genre always has one character who will do s*xual harassment and for some reason the male lead just acts like this, in this book it wasn't that bad but still... I don't even know why it pisses me off so much since I can read a lot more horrific things in the fantasy genre without getting so pissed off but it just really aggervates me how the MC will reject the person but despite that person not respecting their boundrys they continue... Anyways, sorry about the rant that honestly wasn't even that related to this book... it just makes me feel better to write about it and since I don't have anyone to discus this book with it ended up here...