
i don't think alek and ivan were a thing...i think alek used the situation to have ivan depend on him to feel superior. alek was always seen badly by their family after all and was jealous of ivan so i think that when the family rejected ivan, alek could've been happy cuz the child who never had to work for anything now would understand how miserable he felt all those years
heinley is such a simp for the empress...i love it... he exhales bottom energy (づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ
ikrr and the empress exhales such top energy,, they were meant to be
TOTALLY AGREED! I was rereading a chapter where he was kinda daydreaming about the empress looking down on him coldly and ordering him around... that man couldn't be more perfect for the empress. maaan, i just caught up to the naver novel release and i'm absolutely DYING