this story is so weird
it just feels like she's just perpetually in some sort of escape room rp and everyone is just waiting in anticipation for her to spell their actions/motivations out as if it's some sort of guessing game
they refuse to fucking move themselves and want her to figure then out so bad
it's so corny
I always knew ferdnand had a crush on her, but he could've just been a random nice guy. the author really didn't need to make him a weird stalking incel just to paint his majesty in a better light, he was in plenty of good light already.
he became weirder after his arm was broken??? what kind of nonsensical writing is that
can someone explain why he was mad knowing his mother's relationship with his fiance specifically? if he was mad, shouldn't he be mad that everyone around him was planted by his mother, as a whole?
...i mean technically that fiance was his cousin? i'd be mad too if my fiance turned out to be my cousin lmao
but on a serious note i think what added to his anger in this specifically was: he felt betrayed because the truth was concealed from him. of the three closest to him, his brother is still his brother, his friend is still his friend, but his fiance is suddenly his cousin.
Because he already felt a level of dislike towards his mother. Then he finds out his fiancé (who is suddenly also is cousin) is literally reporting back to the empress. She is the empresses pawn to ensure he becomes a good ruler. She is placed beside him politically and not a bond he formed naturally as he originally thought. So basically he felt doubly betrayed.









idk if it was the translation that wasn't good enough but i really couldn't make heads or tails of tori's argument (also did she just tear a ribbon in half with her bare hands?? was it made of paper wtf???)