beta
the empress is sooo cool i kinda love her. finally a good female representative of the hot but toxic male leads we see so often. and her behavior isn't romanticized. male leads like that rape and get involved in every part of the female mc's life without their knowledge but that always works and the fmc ends up falling in love for the ml because of "everything he did for her". but the emperor doesn't love the empress at all. and even though she's forceful like you'd usually only expect men to be in stories like this, the emperor is still manly. their dynamic is so refreshing