"I'm worried about Louise. The Queen was the centre of jealousy, and died because of it..."
She has a terminal case of dumb bitch syndrome lml.
What she said can literally be interpreted as 'Since Louise is so exceptional and I have a massive inferiority complex, I'm jealous of her/I'm jealous shes engaged to the prince", therefore, "I want to kill her"
(she made it clear to simon in the next few lines that she liked ian, so ofc she'll be jealous of louise)
Author missed a chance to give stella a beat down, if only simon read between the lines. UNLESS it was intentional for simon to ignore stella's insinuation, kinda sus. But i'm banking it as the author not realising the double meaning in stellas words (i fkn hope so), which is--yano--sucky cause you'd think the aristocrasy attending a prestigious academy would be able to catch double meanings.
Stella isn't very cunning, sure she can be manipulative but jesus shes so dumb.
But Jae needs to wake up lol, she acts so condescendingly. Whats the point of studying hard for success if she lacks basic social skills (towards people her age at least) she aint landing a distinguished job out of uni like that. I hope she has a nice arc yano character development and shit since shes such a jerk rn.
=muted=










but jeez why does the emperor look lile a 12 yr old to me