/lit/ - Literature

>>22966566
So I wanted to write a romance similar to the Thorn from Slay the Princess
>She metaphorically stabs him in the heart with a cruel and publicly humiliating insult to his loving affection
>Out of guilt, she tries to make amends
>He uses this opportunity to humiliate her as well
>Later on they learn to forgive each other
My idea was he is overbearing in his affection to her and she is at a low point of her life, so she curses him and tears him down verbally

She feels bad about it eventually, but he humiliates her as well

But the thing is I'm not sure in which way he should. I wanted the woman to be humiliated in a different sort of way- i.e. she is not declaring her love for him but is extending her trust to him and he uses it to get vengeance immediately. The thing is I'm not sure what she could extend as an olive branch and in which ways could one twist it into a path to revenge.