Nobody deserves to be raped, let alone being forced to marry their rapist. That scene between the mother and daughter was well done and broke my heart a little. That being said, the mother & daughter are still garbage.
Emperor your anger is about as useful as a dog turd on the sidewalk. Why don’t you take responsibility for that trash person you raised and released on society.
I’m not a fan of polygamy in my romance either. But I just wanted to add to the debate that for me it helps if I think about it as part of the emperor’s job. Regardless of his feelings he HAS TO have a harem and lots ‘o’ heirs.
What we tend to forget about nowadays is how easily people died back then. Regular, healthy adults would drop like flies all the time. I mean they used to put LEAD in their makeup! So considering that, how do you think the mortality rate for children was? Yeah don’t think about that too much. I don’t wanna be blamed for making people depressed.
TLDR: besides politics the harem was there to make sure the emperor had at least one heir make it to adulthood.
Generally, in harem stories with kings/emperors, what bothers me is the unfair treatment. A lot of these women had NO CHOICE (the political marriages were arranged). But when in a story the emperor ignores some while paying attention to others, it seems very cruel. I mean, he can fuck whomever he wants. They have no choice but to wait for him for some husbandly attention. Also, when the emperor turns a blind eye to bullying and cruelty. I mean, they are your damn family---look after them.
It's cruelty and injustice of the harem that is the clincher for me. If he tried to faily treat them all well, give them all some attention, and put up barriers to cruelty/bullying, then fine, have a harem. I can deal.
Lots ‘o’ feelins going on here. I kinda didn’t like that Ellen told those poor spirits she couldn’t help them. I mean you don’t know that for sure? And you just changed your mind later anyway? Why couldn’t she just say “I’ll try”?
I don’t know why people don’t like the lil’ cinnamon bun princes’. I mean yea it’s dumb for them to be start stalking Ellen but they’re just babies! They want to apologize like the good little buns they are! Someone needs to actually explain wtf is going on to them. “You’re cursed, the curse hurts Ellen.” Simple! Then they’d understand!
I also don’t know wth is going on with the cousin. Where the hell did that personality come from?! It is super annoying. It makes no sense that she’s like that given her parents personalities and where she’s being raised. Or maybe it’s just that I don’t think that Ellen needs to be the only likable girl?
Oof this got long
#sorrynotsorry ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
Exactly, and the princes' do know that they have a curse on them that hurts Ellen and yet still they seek her out despite that cause they want to say sorry. The eldest prince said that they were both given an explanation and that he understood but still he wanted to at least talk to her. It's great that their trying to apologize but the best thing to do would be to just stop. It's not like they have to see her to say sorry, they could very well pass the message on to one of her other family members for instance.









That seems unnecessarily cruel for an illusion test thingy. ╥﹏╥