
I agree that the emperor is not completely redeemable bc he could have (now and in the other timeline) prevented a lot if he really tried bc he said he loved and cared SOOOO much but somehow did jackshit and let everything happen -_-
BUT in the scene with the mirror his (and the princes) eyes look of SO I am very certain the empress and her evil spawn did something then

also i dont like how in this timeline as soon as he was sure that shushu was his daughter he just immediately started hating the read headed daughter i dont like her but she is still a kid i dont like how he keeps disregarding one daugher and favors the other they are both his with what we know until now
The emperor pmo so much idk why they try so hard to redeem him. The prince I get bc he was only a kid.
But yall the emperor wasn’t brainwashed or anything in his last life, he just saw the redhead bitch have spirit power and abandoned shushu, who looks exactly like his late wife and him like hello???? And couldn’t he have guessed the empress bitch did sth????