
Wait, I don't think she's an illegitimate child though? She's the child of the queen after all, they already said that before, and for the older sister who's just gross, well siblings can be different, that's normal. And she was obviously jealous of the love that Mc receives, it is true that the older sister isn't as loved as her, and maybe she had different frequentations, also some people are just bad no matter the upbringing, like psychopaths. They are just born evil.

Pretty sure that was the queen consort, so she's a legitimate child. There's the empress and then consorts. All would be legal wives of the king so none of the children born from these wives would be illegitimate. Pleta seems to be the only child of the queen consort before she passed. The rest are the empress' bloodline. Only reason I'm questioning it is because the translation said first empress so it would be that Pleta's mother was the original empress and the MC's mom was queen consort until the first empress passed.
The mc is part of the problem and is low-key a hypocrite.Anyway, the father belongs in the trash .I can never understand when they have father characters like that who on one hand dote on their child/children but when a Illegitimate child shows up they do a 180 and act cold. Last thing, I don’t understand why the 1st princess acts the way she does .we’re they not all raised by the same parents???