Though I highly doubted this theory of mine and believe it was a set up by the mf Church...
I liked to believe that he purposely set this up to ensnare the female lead and lead to an estrangement between her and Jeremy. Perhaps he saw how much she loves the children like her own child so he might use this so that fml would always treat him well and not dare feel anything against him even if in the future she might not like him anymore.
Like he made nora seems like a probelmatic child and starved Nora all the attention from his parents. Perhaps even Nora's parents were coerced into treating him right so it doesn't seem like the Nurnberg family was against the ymcrown pribce or some shit like that. Hope our boy is gonna be safe.
but yeah...not sure about the likeliness of this but this boy seems to unstable to be a ruler....
I love love love the empress though...her character is so logical and rational.
Not sure about what will happen in the future but I like her this way now. She seems so sick and tired of the womanly duties she has to comply and fucking sick of everyone's shit. Hope she stays that way

I don’t remember the chapter but in one panel it’s said that the prince married the person of his choice instead of someone chosen by the royal family. And although you can’t see who he married, you can see her hair, which is the same as shuli’s and his late mothers (they both have the same hairstyle). How is that mf pretending he doesn’t have mommy issues.