lol here I go explain my own joke I guess xD
Usually a trope in villainess manhwa (as from what I’ve noticed) is the emperor’s entire life is about work until the FL convinces them to rest more often or teaches them there’s more to life than working all the time.
The ML in this manhwa obviously puts his health before work and makes random people in charge of his stuff where possible. But letting a few papers slip through is the reason why the story started in the first place (getting engaged to FL) along with several other complications.
Lol, yeah, but that's ALSO partly because stories are filled with "Bureaucrat -like emperors" and very few examples of "Warrior-like emperors". The latter being prevalent in *older* real world history, while the more Bureaucrat-like, chair-sitting and paperwork writing emperors were present in later pre-revolution times (TV Tropes has an article, "Royals who actually do something", for rulers who do *more* than just... paperwork). This emperor clearly prefers the more "warrior-like" part of the job.
Oh wow that’s interesting. Didn’t even know there was a name for that trope, but I like how they wrote the emperor in this story. I also found it quite realistic (in a way) that their main problems are from random organisational issues they caused themselves rather than assassins/politics/war or gods and magic.
Thanks for sharing though it’s always nice to know more.
You're welcome. It's not that doing paperwork is bad, it's when they start doing only the paperwork without touching any grass (as in, not going out often enough to "brush shoulders with the commoner class," when it's the ONLY WAY the ruler can experience seeing real people's real problems, with their own eyes).

Whenever I read other manhwa, the emperor husband is always busy with paperwork 24/7 sacrificing food and sleep over proper work life balance and giving the FL attention (until they get repossessed).
After reading this manhwa, now I know why.