
So it seems queeny and the pope are in cahoots and want to get rid of our Iris. My question is why?

Because Iris-chan is getting more powerful... Having the queen dowager's support, managing the fief and having a company...
Since the second prince already cancelled his engagement with Iris...
The probable course of action in future would be the first prince getting Iris as her fiancée..
So the queen is thinking that they have to bring Iris down before she became support of the first prince...

I feel something is up.

Well, I'm not sure but aside from the seme hiding his dark past, he's also hiding the fact that Junwoo isn't actually doing him a favor by letting him stay at his apartment but quite the opposite. They will be having a conflict soon because Junwoo discovers that Hanbit hired the guy to live with him out of pity. Or at least that's what I picked up, but ofc there's something much deeper going on with the "new tenant" if I understood correctly.
I feel like I'm lost. Not many manga can make me for absorbed that I feel at a lost that there's no more chapters for me to read. I wanna cry lol.