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I love enemies to lovers is definitely one of my favorites because I like banter and I like tension, which I think is why I also yearning really does it for me because I like that sizzling under the surface type of emotion.

And I think the popularity of enemies to lovers is why it was like our first framework on the show because, you know, you're going back and forth.

What do you like? What do you like? Because because Meg and I, we weren't friends really before the show.

We had just met a couple of months before at a work event and found out we both liked reading it.

And we're like, i like this do you like this okay let's talk about it so it's definitely something i it's very popular i think it's probably one of the tropes that people think of first if they have any type of i'll also call it literacy around the romance genre but i think We like it because it still hits on that character arc.

Something has to change.

hear you say that by the way without feeling like anger and cringe in my body that that was like a term that exists but go continue