it's the fact that throughout "the cruel prince," jude says that cardan is smirking slyly or grinning cruelly, but really he's just smiling at her because she makes him nervous 😭. like the whole book she thinks that he's out to get her and wants her dead, but bro is infact just so down bad for her that just looking at her makes him so giddy and flustered and nervous like a schoolgirl



















