Seem like you misunderstood me there. I wrote that I tend to believe that fel did not prostitute herself, but took advantage of naive men in her small town when she realized her female charms, and that the same happened with her "online" friend who paid her college rent. "Milk the simps and friendzone them" would be my guess, but maybe she also slept with them - who knows. Did not mean that elias is one of those naive men.
I cannot stress this enough... The story is that Felicia used her sexy looks and intellect to get somewhere. Look, let's just break this down for some of the other girls for comparison's sake:
Rosalind stayed in a bad marriage, even got into fights with her husband as he saddled her with debt.
Veronica made a choice to put everything into her gym and sacrificed her marriage for it.
I'm literally taking Felicia at her word here but I don't know where it's a bunch of naive men here. We don't know the people of her podunk town, we just know her feelings on that place. It's okay for her mom but not for her. That doesn't make the people there naive. How SHE views it, they wanted her sexually and she was smart enough to realize what they were doing and move away from that as she got older. THAT'S what she's saying.
Same thing with the college friend. I don't know if it's the older college friend, a fraternity brother, August, her mom playing tricks, the dog down the street or anything else. I can't make the connection that that's a sugardaddy or anything else. Maybe it's a college BF she jerked around. I simply don't have enough information because Felicia didn't offer that part. I simply can't put in something that the story does not offer. That's all I'm saying here. With no information about what's going on with that, I can't use that to suggest what's her history. That's entirely speculation and doesn't serve to understand her character at all.
Like a wrote in another post: The problem is not so much felicias cheating in a loveless marriage or her want for own money. Its this:
Elias provides felicia the wealthy life, but he denied her one important wish.
Felicia absolutely obliterates elias reputation where it matters most for him - his peers.
I'm using this as kind of the basis for that entire quote. I'm kind of narrowing this down and the part above is about naïve men. This one's more or less about their marriage. It is of convenience. The point here is that in high society, you have status and reputation through the success of the business. What I dealt with before is that Felicia is much more capable than a title really allows.
The marriage takes two. And Elias as a character is found lacking in a lot of ways. Through the interview, you have to pay attention to his actions. Not his words, his actions. For all intents, he cares more about how he's perceived by getting out of the rail business, starting a travel agency, pretending he cares about growing the talent (He basically looks the other way until he HAS to take notice and lets them suffer or succeed with little on how to really grow or expand), and focused on projects for rep instead of projects of substance.
They're not a team. They're not on the same page. That's well and truly clear. There could probably be something for both of them if Elias listened and learned and took Felicia's advice. He doesn't. He has his own agenda and interests. It just shows that they both have something going on that's going to have different conclusions. It's like in a K-drama, the king and queen, have different ways to influence events and they married out of convenience. The fallout will be felt far removed from their choices. So we're going to see how this is handled for both Elias and Felicia as their choices catch up to them.
I just don't see that as evil, just choices made on both their parts which will see a conclusion.
