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“ Even when she gets pregnant she doesn't fall to panic“ WHAT BY WHO
OR WAS THAT A FIGURE OF SPEECH
Well, there is ML for a reason ╮(￣▽￣)╭
I read a lot of spoilers and that people are disappointed or pissed about ending and what I can say - I don't understand you. This story is made to be historical in fantasy world. I am satisfied how author handled such a heavy topic of emperor with harem and lover out of it.
Those readers judge it on modern society model (probably european and US where man had one wife and countless mistressess in middle ages). Do they not know that harem was a power system and not just flower garden, where emperor just collected girls to his fancy? That usually to enter harem you had to be with a backing, get trough rigorous selection?
Every sensible and/or suspicious monarch (and his subjects) were thinking long and hard which woman to favor and sleep with. I know some countries that had even laws how many times per month to sleep with official wife/empress.
The point is, in this story woman is just good for birthing sons and Pauliana slowly changes that concept by being herself and not giving in from social pressure. Even when she gets pregnant she doesn't fall to panic and immediately looks for marriage. No, she's still strong knight and independent woman and mother. She marries only when she is sure and wants to marry.