So finally finishing this I think the emperor is a fucking liar. He says he was always going to give the throne to Raymond. He’s fucking lying even with the revelation that the reason why she had to be the emperor is because only she had the ability to fix magic is ultimately pointless because they don’t have magic to fix (at the point) which is one of the reasons why he was disappointed with his grandson.
Also, it’s really fucking insane to try and match make two people when one of them desperately doesn’t wanna be with the other one and then to hold something over the other person’s head to try and make it seem better. I know in the end they go over how the emperor was actually a bad person and was really selfish because his whole thoughts were only on maintaining the royal family, but I don’t think they went into him enough. He says he raised Raymond would love but we don’t see that. We see he raised his other grandchild with love but we don’t see him raising Raymond with love. However, we do see them being brotherly until a certain point. I genuinely believe that point comes when Raymond realizes that he is the unfavored child. Jealousy and envy can make you an ugly person and I think is demonstrated here. I understand why Serena turned on the crown prince however, your family being exiled permanently and you being sent to a convent to die can’t be better than just dying.
I would love to hear about literally anything else in the side story like what happened to the emperor what happened to Raymond? What happened to Serena? What happened to the second male lead because it’s been 10 years, but we don’t find out any of that which is kind of disappointing.
I do think for what it is the story is at least thought-provoking when you think about the main villain, however, I do wish he would’ve genuinely had his villainous breakdown when he was poisoning the male lead and really dive into his emotions of jealousy, resentment, and envy which I think could be solved by the second male lead, but I digress
So finally finishing this I think the emperor is a fucking liar. He says he was always going to give the throne to Raymond. He’s fucking lying even with the revelation that the reason why she had to be the emperor is because only she had the ability to fix magic is ultimately pointless because they don’t have magic to fix (at the point) which is one of the reasons why he was disappointed with his grandson.
Also, it’s really fucking insane to try and match make two people when one of them desperately doesn’t wanna be with the other one and then to hold something over the other person’s head to try and make it seem better. I know in the end they go over how the emperor was actually a bad person and was really selfish because his whole thoughts were only on maintaining the royal family, but I don’t think they went into him enough. He says he raised Raymond would love but we don’t see that. We see he raised his other grandchild with love but we don’t see him raising Raymond with love. However, we do see them being brotherly until a certain point. I genuinely believe that point comes when Raymond realizes that he is the unfavored child. Jealousy and envy can make you an ugly person and I think is demonstrated here. I understand why Serena turned on the crown prince however, your family being exiled permanently and you being sent to a convent to die can’t be better than just dying.
I would love to hear about literally anything else in the side story like what happened to the emperor what happened to Raymond? What happened to Serena? What happened to the second male lead because it’s been 10 years, but we don’t find out any of that which is kind of disappointing.
I do think for what it is the story is at least thought-provoking when you think about the main villain, however, I do wish he would’ve genuinely had his villainous breakdown when he was poisoning the male lead and really dive into his emotions of jealousy, resentment, and envy which I think could be solved by the second male lead, but I digress