You guys hate stories where the fl is always waiting for the ml to save her, so here you have a story of a cunning fl that have her own plans and does what she wants. The emperor is not “useless”, he helps when she asks him to, but she wants to do her own things most of the time and he respects her instead of taking her autonomy and forcing her to obey him. And more than that, he trust her and knows shes what she is capable of, hes not following her around without her consent like many ml around do because he knows her, and its HER revenge!
And honestly it makes me glad the story allows her to thrive without or with the ml by her side, many stories will have the fl try do something without the ml, just to be put in a dire situation where she needs to be saved and the ml is there just in time. Here she says she can do it alone SHE WILL DO IT, and if she needs help, her loving husband is just behing doing whatever she wishes
This! I always saw this story with this approach. Plus the current approach actually makes more sense since both the ML and FL are slowly falling in love during this entire thing. It would have been so OOC for ml if from the beginning he started to act all lovey-dovey and everything for FL considering his past and everything.
I do love a man who respect a woman’s autonomy LOL
He truly does trust her and completely understands she’s capable.
It’s not blind trust but earned, which is honestly a lot healthier.
He doesn’t question her or mainsplain. She is truly seen as equal. The only thing he questions is ‘aren’t you being too nice?’ LOL
And YES! I love that he loves her but doesn’t follow her around like a wounded puppy. Emperors should be busy so it feels realistic and he doesn’t feel like a stalker or need to keep watch on her all he time.
“Shes dumb” guys shes basically being interrogated while having a mental breakdown. Shes not even eating well even the servents were worried. I get we always like when characters do logical things but people are human too. I dont think its out of character for her to say things in the heat of the moment its not like this doesnt happen in real life when we are in moments of stress. She could turn the situation if her mind was in the right place but it isnt, shes barelly maling corehent thoughts through the conversation. And about the prince figuring it out, im going to guess thats because he is the man lead in a history with magical powers, so he perhaps got some sort of knowlegment








I know we all hating on the white hair dude as a ml but i find it hilarious how it only took a few interactions for him to start doing whatever she tells him like “i need to talk to you” “why” “just come” and hes like yeah sure ill follow you and wait for you to talk to your sister yeah alright then