yep you summarized it well
Ok. Thank you. The way it was layed out was confusing.
I think he already had a child with his former wife/mistress but was killed by the former emperor because the imperial princess (mother of mc) liked him. So for revenge, he married the princess and they had mc and then he killed both his wife and the emperor
That’s what I thought.
he had Paris before he married the mother, also if I remember correctly it was the emperor who had his previous lover killed I think.
ooohhhh ok ok so the illegitimate child is older than the protag.
So the misogynistic motherfucker is the one who killed paris mother?
No he killed mc’s mom, the daughter of the previous emperor.
yh soz. I meant the previous emperor, apollonias grandad not the current one
So the current “emperor” married the daughter of the previous emperor. And made the princess. Cheated on her and had a child by his mistress. The mistress dies and to get revenge he killed the wife and usurp the emperor. So the only one with imperial blood is the blonde?