I hate it when a FL gives up before even trying, and its a thousand times worse when she literally has save points. Bring up the grass in your food! If he turns out not to be on your side, that's valuable information you've confirmed, and you can just zip back to before the conversation.

And are we seriously seeing that ML abandoned a foreign princess with no allies because he was afraid he might misjudge the emotional distance between them? If that's the case then ML is pathetic.