For a long time, the encounter between the city and the city lord, and the attraction between them, if described in the simplest two words, would be fate.
Like magnets attracting each other, they want to be close to each other. It is a natural scientific theorem.
Therefore, no one knew at that time how the relationship should proceed when the city rejected the city lord and when the city lord retreated from the city.
*Warning: This is a very, very unlikeable protagonist...