ML loved her from the very first timeline. He noticed her loving him back but couldn't recuperate her feelings and be with her because he was forced to follow the storyline of the book. He actually grew to love her the moments when they weren't following the plotline because when they're not in the scenes of the "book", they have free will. When she died, he felt horrible, but then noticed the book and using that he tried to find her again. The reason for his "infatuation" is simply because it wasn't just 1 timeline he was looking for her from. It was possibly hundreds so obviously once he found her again, he was crazy to hold onto her.

he obviously went back in time and decided to try and save tiarozety/decided to pursue her. We dont know exactly why he chose the original FL the first time, but a popular theory is that he's also a transmitigator who fell in love with her but had to act out according to the system like she did. Personally idk if I want that theory to be true, because the whole fate v free will thing is interesting to me but I guess we'll see. If it is true, im curious to see what kind of "penalty" the system admin would have given him considering the penalties she got were being forced to watch him deepen his relationship with the original fl. There are also other mysteries (where did the system admin go?) that keep it interesting and also make me wanna look at the spoiler page but I wont hahaha

the system admin had her down BAD because of the penalties and also she obv already experienced a lifetime of lexion being into the original FL and not her. She also keeps repeating things about how when youre in love with someone like she is with him, you can see casual gestures as meaning something more so she shouldnt get her hopes up, and I just KNOW that it was because he was in love with her but couldn't fully tell her/show it so he probably sent mixed signals and aaaaaah!!! AHHHH!!!! I hope we get to see the scene where he falls in love with her or something!!!

In the beginning when she was pulled from under all the corpses... Where did all the trauma go? All the people she knew are dead, everybody acts like she has to stay normal. She stays normal any way, forgets about it all in 2 days.

The crown prince tortures her for a week? 10 days? I don't remember. After that our ML nearly beats him to death. Then the crown prince appears again like nothing happened. Not touching the ML at all. FL didn't have any trauma either apparently because she isn't even scared being near him.

I used "infatuated" because it comes off strange to me he would somehow fall in love with her even if he retained his memory of his past life, got a hold of the book or whatever. It was stated he was in love with Seirin in his past life, mind you. Somehow his affection switched from one person to another? Now that's a mystery for another day. Furthermore his obsessive behaviour supports my notion of it being a mere infatuation.

I believe the male lead has memories of the first try. And maybe he actually did something to reset the story because he cannot accept Tia's death. Either he realized after she sacrificed her own life in exchange for his that he's in love with her, or maybe he already loved her before but just can't act on it due to certain reasons.

example 1- zion makes it painfully obvious he is a traveller and bestie chooses to ignore all the signs until told point blank.

2- zion tells her he loves her and acts outside of the guides normative prove this but she doesn't believe his love for her until told point blank.

3-FL meets crown Prince and Princess at a party as they are possessed by the thoughts... she has a ring to specifically detect that but can't put 2 and 2 together when the ring violently reacts to both if them

4- she for a fact knows not to trust the guide but what does she do??? Trust almost everything it says... where is the critical thinking... if u know it lies and choose to still believe it's words fully then get shocked when u find out all is not not as it seems

what do u expect? A reward???!

he choose his crazy in a white lotus way sister over the FL many times even after the crown princess tried to unalive her many times.

hes happy in the future but he said that he cant promise to love his wife as he already love fl, so hes happy but never moves on and idfk if its to show that noone can move on from FL as shes oh so amazing bc yk main character buff but its just sad considering hes such a good character as is. Ive always hated when this happens but it somewhat more excruciating since the FL is just not worth all that so far.

She keeps pushing on to keep the story in line with how it should be. She still insists that they shouldn't miss out on the ball because that's where the leads are supposed to meet. I don't blame her tho because she lived in that world for years with that book kept on making her do the role of the OG Tiarozety and so of course she would think "Nothing's gonna change and this is how it should be" aattitude that is popular to heroines. Atleast this time she has reason to be reluctant and suspicious. I'm getting tired of the reason most FLs have, the "This is novel/game world and they're characters in it, so everything will be just the same in the end" kinda thing even after seeing the changes and clear signs that it takes a lot of chapters for them to finally accept it 🤦🏼‍♀️

The consequence of it, she made the pitiful Gregory fell in love with her like the book wanted. She should see it coming but she was too preoccupied by ML's wellbeing and ignoring the possibility that her actions might harmed Gregory.

I still didn't like Gregory's ending though. I know he ended up being happy but I think that's a bit forced. I hope Gregory could slowly fell in love again after healing his heart not because he was forced by circumstance.