
reading this story gives me a massive headache because i cant stomach the thought of her raping him. i don’t want to be a hypocrite though - i (BARELY)read abandoned empress (where the ML quite literally drugged and raped her and for some reason, there were female readers trying to justify it with trauma??), i’ll read this to see what happens. i want to see whether or not this story will romanticize the rape like so many other ML-literally-sexually-harasses-FL. maybe itll play out differently when the roles are reversed, who knows, but i rarely see this shit so im morbidly curious. this makes me really sick though, and that last chapter made me feel really fucking bad. like fr, locking a child with her mother’s recent corpse...? arts good though.
p.s. wtf is going on with ezekiel’s ass? i feel bad for him but i genuinely don’t know if his ass is enjoying this??? or going along with it. im not too sure whats going on with his backstory either cause i kind of just skimmed past this to avoid the ahem scenes. so like someone kindly drop a spoiler because i do not want to invest too much time in this.

bro tht sword boutta get snatched so fucking hard i feeeeel it

right, like bruh just come out wih it already. we all know someones gonna try to play it off as if they were the one who pulled it out and thats gonna be a problem. hopefully the holy sword can like reject anyone who tries to use it other than her...? just become empress at this poinr fuck these other hoes

god, i breezed through this story all in one night, and i've went from feeling frustrated to incoherently mad to genuinely shedding a few tears because the emperor's idiocricy was breaking my sanity. how is he such a MANCHILD? the sheer hypocrisy and denial and childishness made me pull my hair out - i was deadass punching air in the dark.
so happy my queen is breaking free from sovishit and his "cant-stop-crying" bbg trashta, and getting married to a hot male lead who respects her and treats her right. crying tears of joy. chapter 80....man, you the goat

SPOILER!
i just read the comments...are you kidding me (╯°Д °)╯╧╧ ?!?!?!?
she gets married to a guy who only marries her out of titles and wealth, and he has a secret child, AND he doesn't tell her any of this? please tell me these spoilers are wrong oh my god. please, paulina, just go live out in the woods, away from all this political bullshit, and hunt animals for the rest of your life, or find a willing commoner wifey and run away with her. you deserve better...

im just super sad.
waiting for a second lead because as much as i rooted for the emperor, i just can't now. he can settle and work with his concubines and political affairs and paulina can settle with a different male lead or her own bombass self. it looks like the emperor just can't and won't fight for her anymore - like, he's resigned to the idea of her never loving him back, and paulina's just too dense. unless he gains the courage to fight for her love harder, i hope he doesn't try and manage paulina's hypothetical future love life cuz that's like really toxic.
im doing a dolphin dive off this ship sorry guys ;;;;;;

honestly! really anxious to see how the story will progress after this ;; i really did like the emperor but i can't stomach the idea of him pursuing paulina while having three concubines and a baby on the way. but from what i'm hearing, there's no second male lead hottie that will be better than the emperor so i don't know what to think. at this point, i'd rather paulina end up alone... ╥﹏╥
ouch!!!!!!!
its all good abby just recover