I understand what you mean….I think lol, but I feel bad for the king because he was forced into a marriage and was forced to have a kid with someone he didn’t love, then his wife died then some how lost the child he chose to have with the person he loved and searched for her high and low with no luck and when he finally finds her she already has someone she considers her father and he then learns that she didn’t have a happy early life. like bro I felt so bad for the guy
True... It's a bad situation after all for all of them at that. Like I actually cried for the Emperor because tbh in cases like this, he can be the emperor in name but he doesn't have much power and it's obvious the empress has the upper hand in their power struggle
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i feel like for a bit the king actually 100% thought that the duke was mistreating her until he saw how she reacted towards the duke compared to how she reacted to the king. i dunno if this makes sense.
also it seemed for the dukes expression that he was disappointed as a father to another father that he couldnt really protect his kid just by how easily the red queen/empress easily made everyone and nearly the king and prince believe that shushu was dead. like the duke knowing that was probably disappointed in the king about that. and he could also use that and how shushu feels as a way to try to keep her at the dukedom to protect her from the red queen/empress reach just even a bit.
i rambled lol sorry