I think you are being too harsh. A lot of the plot holes you point seem nitpicky because you could easily could come u with a solution of how to solve that. Not everything needs to be shown. We as reader can infer some stuff. Sure, the crown princess couldn't couldn't track her but he could. This can be explained by: parhesa escaped to another country in which the crown princess influences didn't reach. Parhesa's painting was shown in an exposition and the princess didn't find out. But when thprince started investigating the first thing he knew about parhesa was that she was from dumanis, so he investigated her origin in dumanis, and in dumanis everyone knew parhesa so it was easy to obtain information on her. See, there, easily explained. Now, why would the writer even bother to add an explanation like this, they have a limited amount of pages per chapter and they want the chapter to progress the story a bit, otherwise the chapters become long wall of text where the story never moves on.
On the other hand the writer could trust that it's readers will have enough media literacy to infer that there is a way for the prince to find out, and that maybe it's not the freaking point how he found out but to move one to another part of the story.
The writer could spend five panels more explaining this insignificant and un impactful details. Soon the series will transform in one of those 2300 chapters monster that never ends. Stop being niticky, honestly.
Thank you for saying this cause I was wonder why the poster missed this.
Whilst I can agree to an extent with your argument, I don't necessarily agree the need to respond so critically to my opinion, as stated. Nowhere did I send any type of slander toward the author, I, as a reader, posted my opinion for the purpose to post it for me. As for being "nitpicky" I find it quite intriguing you using such words against me when you're clearly upset with my remarks? Yet I'm nitpicking? We as readers have different perspectives, so respectfully, I'll leave this here, but sincerely please remember; it's not that deep.
You know what, you are right. I said you were nitpicky but I was being nitpicky over your comment. I'm sorry.
Thank you for willing to reflect on that. I appreciate it, we're all just readers here. May your day bid you well
It's starting to not make sense in the motive department unless we consider the possibility of the dutchess having already been subjected to the state of being actively consumed by the darkness therefore lacking any ability to stabalize a rational mind. Otherwise she'd maintain no further drive / reason when the emperor (bitch ass) goes onto clarify it was his former empress choice he had honored.
Don't get me started on the numerous accounts of plot holes. Not sure if it's due to poor organizational structure or missing points carefully threaded together in the novel (not entirely sure if it has one) but encountering the one by one was nothing short of a headache. One example being her highness, the princess inability to track mc's whereabouts. When on the other hand you have the crown prince who at the snap of his fingers traced her story to its orgins. Yet the princess who was supposedly searching for her ferociously, couldn't? Okay, well maybe the crown prince had access to more readily available resources and information due to it being within the boundaries of his kingdom. You could argue such things until a knight crossed over already suspicious and damn near out for blood, aware of her name, etc.. While we're at it, let's also ignore that said knight stated to the mc she would report immediately to her highness, the princess, after arriving back in her kingdom. Who then we were shown only afterward having the mc's location unveiled via a portrait another relative royal happened to buy, by chance no less.
Overall, I can't help but feel many of these issues could've been resolved with much less difficulty. Misunderstandings which could've been debunked given proper communication. Constant presence of gaslighting (excluding the empress whom unjustifiablely endured ten years of straight torture) I acknowledge can be quite difficult to deal with whilst trying to remain level headed. However that being said, there are many instances where in regards to the schemes drew up by the dutchess, allies could've turned the tables in their favor. Taking this aspect into mind it was frustrating digesting the plot route suggesting and reaffirming they were essentially powerless but were also somehow unable to properly orchestrate schemes of their own to defend themselves.
In short, the emperor can go to hell, dutchess has insane plot armor, love empress and crown prince, mc understand her reasoning but ultimately shes creating excuses for herself under the premise she must entirely focus on her duty without objection.