That aerial shot of the palace left me dumbstruck at how do the poor gardeners even manage to water and trim those round shrubs on top... lmao.
So the brown haired og heroine (forgot her name) came crying to Agnes? Why the heck for? I hope it's not to manipulate our mc into some scheme now that Raymond's most probably turned either nasty or indifferet on her and the saint after "realizing" (a.k.a. brainwashing himself about) his alleged "real feelings" for the princess (man... took me a huge effort not to write each single word in that sentence, with inverted commas...).
Anyways, I know this "deal" the mc proposed is just a trick to get Kylo to spend more quality time with her, even better cause they'll need to be pretending to be all "lovey dovey" to make the blond irked... but... here's hoping our mc doesn't let our sensitive ML start believing some depressing stuff like, that she's unwittingly using him to make Raymond jealous (in order to get his attention) due to some unconscious remnants of feelings for the blond... (though, if ML to let go of all brooding overthinking in order to focus on trying to seduce her, and "stealing her from Raymond," for real... I will be one happy reader!)
Why did the family's enemies never stop targeting her even after she allegedly became "worthless"? She allegedly had no worth anymore, and even the family ignored her, yet the enemies apparently still thought her useful as a victim/hostage, since they took so many pains to frame her, much later on, in order to try to take her from her family. Suspicious. Why the heck would the enemy bother with a worthless reject? What the heck was everyone hidding from her?
I think the Iron Blood already planted a lot of spies within the Namgoong. Which makes them know that the family actually love Ahee, but can't show it publicly because of the Nanny and the other elder's conspiracy plan. Since the head of Namgoong is currently not in a good state after the war, there are probably a lot of internal fight (mostly elders that eyeing the heir position).
If the Iron Blood know that much, that was actually the perfect plan. Namgoong was always described as a clan with deep loyalty and pride. If Ahee was accused of such a thing and was about to snatched away from the family, her siblings won't sit still. The fact that all three of them died, I assume they already prepared this for so long to the point of gathering a bunch of army like they're were about to have a war with a demonic cult or something.
If all the heirs died, and Ahee remains. Namgoong will collapse for sure b3cause she had no cultivation. That was a gold plan actually.
To me, these newer chapters where we see the elders talk with each other, it seems to be implied/hinted that some of them are working for or with other forces to bring Namgoong down completely, and not just seek the position of head of the family / the power it has. If this is the case, framing MC would also make sense - even if it's solely blamed on her, the family would still take a hit, and in the case of the siblings potentially caring for her, their refusal would also hurt Namgoong, giving an excuse to destroy the family. Which was what ended up happening in their previous life.
From what I can see, FL is the only legitimate child of the former head (i.e blood related). Their initial plan was probably to brainwash her then take over Namgung with her as a puppet. When the siblings planned much better than they expected and that failed, they tried to forcibly take her using the poison, my best guess would be that they'd marry her to their eldest son then take over Namgung that way. Her being "useless" is all the better for them, in fact I would guess her being "useless" was caused by them to make her easier to handle. I bet she will be OP as hell in this life bc of superior bloodline or something.
Raymond: "Yeah, you see, I kindaaaa ...hated your guts, and yeah, I know I kindaaa... made sure EVERYONE and their grandmother knew that I'd rather eat my own d*ck than marry you... But stiiiiill... everyone KNEW I would someday, like, get whatever had crawled up my arse, finally out, and we would STILL, kinda, one day... ... somehow... ... like, uh, end up getting married... I mean, *cough* everyone KNEW that we would!!!!"






Hathor: "Admit it, you aren't a *true* cat, Bastet! ...Just now, you didn't land on your feet after falling down!!" (LOL)
And seems like Lions are both Sekhmet and Bastet's darling babies, hahaha.
OMG I DIDN'T EVEN MAKE THE CONNECTION!! (≧∀≦)