Fiancé is going to be a secret misogynistic douche, I can almost guarantee it.
Will also, probably, have one of those "closed eyed, always smiling" faces.
I'm glad he didn't fall into the forgiving protagonist trap. Sometimes, especially in ye olden times, you have to take your own justice. Guards and knights were as capricious as any bandit or killer. Oftentimes worse.
Back then, a life truly was worth only so much. Mainly because they lived to...
I always love the overconfident noble, or in this case "heroine", trope. They're ultimate fall is always satisfying to see play out.
Though, some stories leave a lot to be desired when it comes to the climax.
Obvious plot twist seems obvious, but Chinese story writing usually doesn't pull elaborate baits. I guess that alone is worth following for.
I want to believe she really says "simping".
That "debt slaved" tag is going to come back to haunt them now that she's a titled. He'll (or she'll, that name is weird) not want to let her go when they could exploit her. Probably arbitrarily raising the debt to keep her enslaved.
I am still under the belief that the high priest isn't a timetraveler like the protagonist. But it's the mother that came back and he's tortured this information out of her.
He wants to keep the industrial age at bay because he will lose a good majority of his powerhold over the "world".