I'm also one of the few people that is on Helios side actually. People give so much leniency for Diana and it makes me really confused because they are punishing Helios so hard and throwing words like he's toxic and whatnot and I was just truly confused because then Diana was even so much worse.
His wife turns out to be a lunatic who can't even work with him as royalty, she's toxic, she's so close-minded, and didn't want to learn the ways of the nobles considering she is a noble now, and worse is she drove away the nanny who raised him in place of his mother. And now his beloved father is terminally ill while he has to handle all the chaos created by said wife all by himself. His friendship with his dearest bestfriend was ruined because Helios decided to marry said wife. Helios has really been through a lot.
Same I get it in the beginning but it started to really drag to the point I genuinely felt bad for Helios. Hesita not letting Cael talk for himself when Helios was genuinely trying to apologize annoyed me so bad.
Every time I see Helios struggle for his empire, it quite literally matches how Cael was treated beforehand, but the problem is that we only got to see small parts of Cael’s mistreatment in the story, meanwhile Helios has been struggling and made to be the bad guy this entire story. So while I understand that Helios is just going through what Cael did, it’s hard to not take Helios’ side while he seemingly struggles alone and everyone in the story lowkey hates and distrusts him as he’s trying his best to make up his past mistakes while dealing with Diana all at the same time. I’m trying my best to enjoy the story for what it is, it kind of annoys me to continuously watch Helios downfall for 100 chapters straight, even though I understand why it’s like that :