
Rashta is so scary in the novel bruh she’s going sicko mode and planting fake traps on her maids, plucking out a birds feather because soveishu gave it to navier instead of her, ordered the maid to get her tongue cut off and thrown into jail for “putting the bird feather in her pillow” when she’s the one that did it, etc.

Yeah she’s batshit crazy. spoilers
she’s ordering assassins to kill navier’s mother and father, she ordered the assassin to kidnap lebetti/levetti to be turned into a slave and get trafficked. She’s also conspiring with the previous empress of the western empire (heinley’s country, his sister in law) to ruin navier’s reputation in western empire, etc. AND she likes duke elgy, while also borrowing tons of money from him to hire the assassins. and she’s purposely getting all of her maids fired or thrown into jail bc she’s being paranoid that they’re talking shit behind her back

I’m currently reading the novel because I am impatient and I want soveishu suffering, and wowowow guess what y’all~ he’s a lil breakthrough of what I had currently read in the novel-
so basically, Rashta’s child with soveishu can’t become a prince/princess because she is a concubine. She’s mad because she thinks it’s soveishu’s seed, so it should be counted as a royalty, but soveishu said that ain’t gonna happen, that child ain’t royalty but hey I got money to support them and give them some backing so it’s all fine. But of course, rashta’s a greedily lil bihhh and asked duke elegy for help and he said “become the empress.”
Soveishu tries to ease rashta’s worry by saying “well, they can become royalty if navier adopts them. Don’t tell anyone I told you this but, navier is infertile.”
Navier’s older brother comes into the scene and he’s thus violent dude who will protect his sister, find that the emperor got a rat next to him warming up his bed, and he hella mad and wanted to confront soveishu or rashta. He does meet rashta, he didn’t lay a hand on her but there was some conflict, rashta a dumb bih tripped on air and made a scene saying that navier and her brother pushed her and harmed her child.
Soveishu followed along, naviers brother was fed up and wanted that child and rashta permanently gone by trying to give her some kind of abortion potion, and she took it, not by much. Tensions are high, naviers brother is looking for dirt on rashta and he find it. He found out the she was indeed a slave and with child. But be caused a ruckus and got kicked out of the kingdom.
Soveishu plans a scene, he wanted to divorce navier just so that rashta’s child become legitimate royalty, and after a year of rashta being an empress, he will try to get navier back as an empress (because he knows he cannot rule the kingdom without her, or rashta being an empress for more than one year) but his plan backfires because navier overheard him telling rashta that he will divorce navier so that rashta can become the empress.
y’all see a the first chapter, she remarried heinley, yadayadayada.... soveishu tells the officiate that’s running the divorce how navier is infertile because he was a dumb child who stole cookies from his mother, and ate and gave that cookie to navier. But the cookie isn’t a regular cookie, it was for the concubines so that they don’t get pregnant. BUT news flash, navier as the queen of western empire does get pregnant, and soveishu founds out that he’s the one infertile as well..... so who’s the dude that got rashta pregnant then??

Bruh when I started reading this I was kinda offed with how childish she looked. There’s only a 3 years age gap between them, yet why did it look like she was 7 and not 12, and him look 20 and not 15????

I'm not sure if there was intention behind that. I just thought/assumed they looked like that because 1) the female lead was malnourished due to her negligent uncle's family and 2) despite being only 15, the male lead has been participating in battles since he was young so he naturally grew up being big. OR perhaps this juxtaposition of their physical appearances emphasizes the similar power and leadership they have despite their different backgrounds. OR (lol) maybe making the ML look like a "real" 15 year old boy would be even less realistic as he is the master of the castle and is sufficient in battle.
Lol, I don't know the answer and I understand if you feel uncomfortable but... I personally think the jarring appearances of the two leads help in informing us about their personalities and backgrounds!
the art looks nice but istg I’ve probably read a rendition of this from wattpad and it’s one of those old one direction mafia x y/n type beat