
I love ml but her mother was such a bitch and even emperor ducking bas*ards I can see why empress is going such lengths and why is she soo crazy but good for them[ml's mother and emperor their disgusting true love never came true] , but ultimately ml and fl are soo cute I love them.

Bruh I understand you lol. The yuri part was a total surprise like it wasn't even foreshadowed or anything.
Spoiler; when Astaire inevitably defeats the empress and is about to kill her. The empress, unreconciled, rambles on about how MLs mom was a vamp that stole her husband and would always ogle her with those strange, obsessive, smug eyes.
But then Astaire drops a bombshell of a plot twist that his mom never wanted the empress's position but rather, the empress herself. He goes on to explain how he has inherited his mother's twisted way of loving someone, that both of them would chose to destroy the one they love than let anyone else have them.
It is revealed in a few flashbacks that Astaire's mom was believed to be this angelic, kind, pure woman. But in reality she was a total player who had several lovers at the same time both platonic and bed partners. She manipulated everyone in high society with her strong spirit powers to maintain a "pure" reputation.
She first saw the empress in her debut ball (or some event I forgot ) and immediately fell HEAD OVER HEELS for her. She wanted her real bad but also knew it was impossible for them since the empress was married. So she decided on the next best option: Destroy the proud empress.
She started an affair with the emperor quite easily given her astounding beauty and "innocent" visage. Everytime she was with the emperor she would blatantly stare at the empress. The empress thought she was gloating but it was actually obsession (lmao the emperor thought he found one true love but his mistress be salivating for his wife). The MLs mom enjoyed the empress's hate because this was her way of gaining the empress' attention and being close to her.
When Astaire revealed this shocking piece of info, the empress was left speechless cuz everything started making sense. She went crazy screaming "No, no, no!" The whole time. (It wasn't revealed if the empress was regretful or terrified to learn this)
Mls mom was so obsessed with breaking the empress's pride her soul actually stayed with Astaire after her death to ensure Astaire became the heir and not the empress's son.

I personally don't mind that mc's ex haven't seen them together cause the more time she spends with ml they will become more close and connected but the moment her ex saw them he will definitely try to interfere in their relationship so it's better they grow close to each other first cause the regret later will be soo satisfying as he will know that he cannot intervene in their relationship anymore and he lost something precious and she is now happy with someone else by her side.

I am on chapter 35 and it's weird how fl's father aka the emperor bought new wife as soon as the old one died and he wasn't even seen during the funeral and he got new empress pregnant already when his own son was struggling to overcome his mother's death and he wasn't even with his son and when the backstory of fl's brother was shown emperor was never there, I may be overthrowing but things just doesn't add up for me.

In my opinion, the emperor was probably around a lot more than we see since he and Ysis do have a good relationship. Ig the flashbacks make it seem more gloomy and disconcerting since him mother just died and the people around him, who were his mother's allies were more concerned about him being able to maintain his position as the crown prince rather than his emotional well-being, which probably made it hard for him to grieve his mother, along with the fact that she became physically weak after giving birth to him.
As for the emperor getting married soon, I don't actually remember if it's ever been mentioned how long after his first wife's death he remarried. However, the dude was in his prime and probably would've had to get married sooner or later to maintain stability. I think it's hinted further in the manhwa, that the emperor loved the current wife even before, or was at least interested in her but had to get married to the first wife because of political reasons since she was of imperial bloodline, whereas the current empress is from a barony.

Yes and in some chapter it was shown that the current empress was pregnant, and emperor was with her but the crown prince was still coping up his mother death . Emperor didn't even care to think about his child and said he was busy with work but have time to impregnate the current empress. I don't like the emperor at all cuz the only time crown prince was able to meet emperor this entire time when he went to see the new emperor.
I still think purple hair was a total bitch she knew ml have a girlfriend and still flirted with him(kinda) and then dragging both of ml and fl because of her stalker like bitch its your problem it's not ml's problem to bear and not to mention when ml drunk kissed her she never stopped him or pushed him away it was ml who realised she wasn't fl and pushed her away if he didn't she would definitely be ok with them having sex and then probably would would have said her usual sorry..so ducking annoying
I thought the same too, like she thought she's saying sorry for the trouble she caused since she also is having a hard time blah blah blah, but in my mind what she really is doing is asking the ML to take pity on her since she is in much worse situation ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
Ikr? I can imagine her doing all of that just as the same BUT as a SKIT with both ML and FL aware of the situation. They could have agreed to help her. All she had to do was ask for help and tell someone else what is happening with her.
Yeeeesss!! And what's more irritating, her situation was EASILY removed just like now like wth, girl?! #-.-) you should have do that from the start and threaten them
I get her issues being hard to ask HR for help because they are barely going to help but apparently threatening with media was all it took. And she has tons of evidence before the guy was transferred to their department. Even if the management did not help her, she use the media to do it. There's no saving her for what she did, no matter what she was going through.