Confusing

I dont even understand what she wants to do anymore. Like whats her goal? Who knows

Her main goal is simply to ensure Cedric ascends the throne seamlessly without opposition and doesn’t have rivals in the future. She wants to ensure her brother DOESNT ascend because she knows he’s a pos. She also wants to atone for all the bad things she did in her previous life to ensure her brother becomes the king. So basically she is meticulously bringing down the emperors faction and her brother’s supporters. What’s happening right now was for her promise to the empress. Empress supports her and she ensures the empress can get back what the emperor stole from her (except her children obviously since the a**hole killed off all her children so Laurant can ascend the throne). For the empress showing her outright support would directly pit her against her brother (otherwise family ties would keep her enslaved to him). Her promise to the empress was that she’ll make sure all of the inheritance of the Raigan duchy (empress’s original family) goes back to her. The emperor had killed off her family and put his own person as Duke of raigan. Because of the salt they’re very important to the empire. Right now the empress just claimed back all that should originally belongs to her.
It does get confusing because multiple plots are unfolding simultaneously. E.g Amel kingdom prince also moved for her in this case. The other duchy that starts with R is also a target with Skyla becoming a big card now I think.

I have been lost for at least 30 chapters now. I feel like it's become intensely political and with so many moving parts, weekly releases of the chapters makes the info too far apart to really understand. I'm sure if I was reading this all at once it wouldn't be so confusing so I might be putting this one on hold for a while

Yea that’s a good idea. I have dropped a couple of manhwas because the plots intricate and the updates are very sporadic and it’s heavily censored because of smut so the dialogues were cut out too. No point in reading something when it’s non understandable.

Thanks for the clarification. But I was still on confused on did FL's mother already had Laurence (? fL brother) and the emperor was killing his children because he was afraid they would somehow gain control of empress's duchy. Or he wanted to make Laurence the one to sit in throne but actually not having any power.?

Fl’s mother was a horrible person but she herself had a horrible life. Basically fl’s father was an old guy who married fl’s mother when she was 15 or 16 because power and money. But because she was so beautiful she caught the emperors eye. So her husband sent her off to the emperor to gain the emperors favour. So even though she was the marquess on paper she was the emperors concubine as well. And she made best of the situation by clinging to the emperor because he is more powerful. (Not entirely sure but I think the marquise died because he slept with his ‘wife’ which resulted in our fl. since his death isn’t clarified to at least I don’t remember it) anyway clinging to the emperor worked because he favoured her over the empress. And he killed the empress’s children not because they could inherit the duchy but because with strong family backgrounds they could have contested him for the throne especially because he was mistreating their mother. Another reason is since he favoured the fl’s mother and her brother looked likes their mother the emperor wanted to sit him in the throne. It’s also a bonus point that all of Laurence’s power comes from the emperor himself. Laurence wouldn’t be a powerless emperor but he can only come into power when the emperor hi,self relinquishes it. Hope this helped.