I'm like. Almost certain the Duke is a candidate for the emperor since it was mentioned he had imperial blood and if he is the emperor, Ingrid doesn't have to worry abt her kingdom. And even if he doesn't become the emperor yk, the dukes wife is from the kingdom so they're on ok terms in that. Besides that yea it's rushed uhm I feel like maybe she had shown some feelings for the Duke but not enough leading up for it to be like "let's get married" in the same chapter as a confession but I guess when u think of how many times Luana thought "I want to see the Duke" and even compared him to a bunny it's no surprise abt the relationship in itself. She's seen literally like worrying herself to death over the fact the Duke couldn't eat at the emperor's palace but idk still being married and confessed to in one chap is crazy work
The ending was so rushed.... No new emperor, no ending for the sister? And suddenly she just realised her feelings? When she wasn't even shown thinking about them? One moment they show her wanting to return because she likes to cook for him and he needs her and then she is just in love? And they don't even show the duke suffering. Also I find highly unlikely that all mighty duke that is very strong wouldn't recognize that only one imperial knight coming to pick him up is weird and they don't even show how he returns???? And then they just from realizing their feelings to "let's get married"????? Seriously? This was NOT satisfying at all........ I was expecting the duke to have a head and protect her and have some plan to help the sister take over the empire and become empress or something.... Anything? He was a bad emperor anyway, he just killed whoever he liked and conquered kingdoms because he was rejected by a girl...... I'm sure the DUKE could find proof that the emperor was not good enough and that he had a legitimate reason. Also if the sister wanted to kill the emperor, what now? How does she go back to her kingdom, how does the kingdom become independent, and she not care what might happen to the kingdom if the new emperor is bad? She should have planned and made a deal with the next emperor that she would make him emperor and she would get her kingdom back.
I get that the author wanted the story be light hearted and cute, but then they shouldn't have included such complicated concepts and the emperor shouldn't have been killed, but he should have let go of her or she should have killed herself, something like that would have left less loose ends than THIS....