Originally there was a time skip montage, the story was just they met, she revealed herself as a person from another world and then a 6 months timeskip straight to when they are already in love and decided to move to the city together.
But I feel like that's a bit cheap and lazy. I want to gradually develope her relationship with MC at the same time with her corruption, basically like a tug of war. And living alone with MC in the middle of nowhere would give their relationship a decent head start, but that first encounter with Cedric is always gonna be on the back of her mind...
And Cedric is not the antagonist and more like a victim, he's genuinely a good friend to MC and actually feel guilty about that encounter. It's just that her sinful body also slowly corrupted him.