
Spoil me about the emperor. I don't understand anything about the late emperor, what is his goal? Is he the schemer of all these? Why did he let his son go on to be a womanizer? What is the benefit of that to him?

benefit = more blood of the royal family spread out to control. and sometimes not always does the parent know what the child is doing or to whom. if our muscle loving FL turned out not to have the beast fang, but the royal families ability instead, guess who has more power over the nobles than another noble?

If I understand correctly, if his son has a kid with the Orlo family, and that kid becomes the next emperor, then they have all the power. But because the empress’ family is kinda tied with the North, then that’s not possible. Basically he married the Empress to gain her family’s backing and power but wants none of the strings attached to it.

the FL is beast fangs, basically a mental attack like being bitten by a beast and it can kill people. no idea what the royal families ability is, don't remember. and from what i understand of the whole thing, you can only have 1 ability at a time. and yes you're correct, if the FL had the royal families ability, the royal family would have a reason to take over the north, that's a lot of $$$ for the royal family because of all the monster materials that come from the north. remember the FL's mother is the ML's cousin. so the mother went and had a fling with an orlo's son and had the FL. the orlo's son is where the royal blood line comes into play.

Ohhh that made sense since the current emperor's mistress is from Orlo family right? So the late emperor was planning on two timing families here. But isn't the current empress's family a vassal of the North right? Which makes the chances of the late emperor taking over the north more smooth sailing?

that's IF the FL had the royal families abilities and was friends with her fathers side of the family. She doesn't have the royal families abilities and is not friends with her fathers side of the family. she utterly HATES her fathers side of the family. i remember her commenting she'd like to see him....you know....lose some limbs and other body parts..if not out right die for all she cared. the only way the emperor can take over the north now is if the ML and the FL die and the vassal families take over. not seeing that happening any time soon.

While reading the mtl novel at first I can understand the POV of mom. Just because she's bio related to Lilith does not mean she is warranted to have affection for the MC.
*Reading the time when the MC is in the training center and mother told Lilith not to approach her son and isolates Lilith from her half brother*
Me: Okay , I get that. It's hard to have complications especially for half siblings who did not grow up together so it's better to have them stay strangers.
*Mom tested MC and it turns out she's a primera so MC begged her not to drag her to the emperor but mom dragged her anyway since she fear that she would have consequences and mom had her memory erased by MC*
Me: Okay, I'm angry but I understand. The emperor is batshit crazy enough so I understand.
*Reading further to the MTL where she thinks to herself that it's okay for Enoch to lost anything since he's more 'privileged' and is favored by the emperor*
Me: ......Okay. Maybe it's because she's not in his shoes so as an outsider she must think that way.
*Blames MC and Enoch for everything instead of the Emperor for drafting her son because she got pregnant so the emperor withdrew the deal and applied it to her second child so she went to rant on Enoch and angry at him for not being an obedient lapdog for the emperor*
Me:.....Okay.....Maybe it's the pregnancy hormones so she can't think straight.
*Nearly miscarried and MC save her. Still blamed the MC and angry at her*
Me: Ok. She has trauma okay? So she lashes out...... okay?
*Sold the MC and Enoch for the second? Third? Time despite her family telling her not to? IDK mtl sucks. Oh I think she killed the commoners too under emperor's orders and blamed others because she have no choice. Refuses to take responsibility of her actions or at least be guilty of them. Thinks of herself as the only victim in the world and hates Enoch because he continues to defy the emperor. Still sided with the emperor even in the rebellion despite the imperial knights and Magic tower are banding against the emperor and the tides changing in favor of Enoch. *
Me: Okay. I give up. I hate her.

The mom has the habit of blaming anyone and anything but herself. I usually understand the character's hate to another character but she doesn't seem to have a reason.
Yeah they're arranged marriage, but based on how they parted 7 years ago, they didn't seem to have a strife relationship like in the other dramatic circumstances. It's understandable that she wanted to start over and wanted nothing to do with MC since she already moved on and that she wanted to protect her son, but all the circumstances in this spoiler just tells me she just wanted to destroy MC and Enoch not for the sake of her new family's safety. F loyalty to the emperor, she's obviously not loyal although she stuck with him against the rebelling forces. She could've joined them instead and free her family from the emperor's grasp if that's what she truly wanted.
Her reason aside, she's downright evil to sell out her daughter multiple times without an ounce of guilt. Even if she's not her daughter, she's heartless to sacrifice a child to that snake emperor.

She has this notion of thinking that just because Enoch is a son of the duke and is favored of the emperor it's okay for him to lose the MC rather than her losing her son because she thinks 'Enoch will stay protected' or that Enoch wouldn't receive that much punishment unlike her which is a stupid thinking actually. Gurl all of you are victims of the emperor,if anything Enoch had it worse than you.
Wait why does it seems Raebin and the red hair(forgot their names) is in tension or bad mood? Did I miss something or shall I reread?
There’s no tension, idk why but they made it look harsher in the Manhwa. Raebin and Eugene are totally best friends
Ohhh thank.goodness since I've read a spoiler some time ago and I had feared the inevitable had come early.
what spoiler? what inevitable?
they just have different preference but they are bff
Shall I tell you? ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
raebin and eugene fight like siblings and call each other stupid but they’re still best friends is what it means
Yep. They're just sibling-like best friends who bicker and ignore each other at times. They do have each others' backs though.
yes please!!!
Basically, it involves the previous timeline where Moondae was still Gunwoo, Testar was Steer minus a few members, and all the scandals like the ones about both Sejins (bullying, drugs, etc.) actually made it past the first stage of just being rumors since no one was there to counter them.
In addition, this strife that the commenter referred to is about everyone's memories of the previous timeline and how it affected their personalities.
Though this situation only happens in the latter half of the novel.
I was dreading for that part actually and thought for the worst
It's a rough situation, but they all get through it together