Wait, I have the perfect idea for how Neo and Ezlynn could get together :0
At first she's obviously going to stay away from him, but maybe one day she gets a letter saying her mom is probably going to die in the next few days. She goes to the garden to cry, cause like, what the heck is she supposed to do? And then Neo happens to be there and out of a moment of weakness/she just doesn't care anymore she kinda just dumps everything on Neo; about her mom, why she even wanted to be a suitor in the first place and about Lindon’s threat and all that. Then Neo promises to help as much as he can and also protect her(again, as much as he can anyway) from Lindon. And then because Neo is so kind to her, Ezlynn ends up falling for him!
How does that sound?? It's all I could come up with lol