
spoiler of what happened to shuli --
read a part of the translated novel and it says that they don't find her in the carriage and have to search the forest for her body to find it dismembered and pretty mangled up (they were barely able to find the head). the pope literally said "the death of the marchioness should be as brutal and horrendous as possible",, so im pretty sure the church orchestrated shuli's incredibly gruesome death in order to gain more power ;-;
idk if it will be that graphic with the art etc in this tho
hope that helped !! :)

i can try find the complete novel but i only have part 2 of the flashback arc translation on me and a link to chapter 1,, sorry i can't be of more help :(
(spoiler source) https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/a-stepmothers-märchen.90525/page-16#post-5542228
(chapter one) https://librarynovel.com/novel/a-stepmothers-marchen/chapter-1/
deadass imma read this when its light outside because i was scrolling the first chapter on my computer and deadass JUMPED just on the third page plsss what was i expecting