
I really think that ML will be Alberto while the prince is going to be the 2nd ML.
She wants a loyal knight, not a prince. Then, now they have the generic "he's older than her" age gap. I'm pretty sure he will end up recognising she is Rosemarie and still has a good relationship with her brother so he will help them meet each other once again. In addition, she seems to be feeling something after seeing him.
Then we have the prince who is the child of the 2 people who murdered her. Call me anything you want but even if he is the best person in the whole world, I wouldn't fall in love with my murderers' child and I wouldn't for anything in the world have dinner with anyone of that blood without plotting their deaths, and since she doesn't want revenge... Boy, I have bad news for you.
TEAM ALBERTO!

I believe that child is some kind of spy for him. She's not that innocent and she tries to kind of get info out of her while also trying to make her think and give her suspicions about where they are. Besides, if they call her everyday to him, Belle has time to give info to Dieter about anything FL tells her.
Then, she is starting to think he is not that bad compared to Dieter, who IS WORKING FOR HIM. GURL!!! (Stockholm syndrome, hi!)
THEN, when she is deep in Stockholm syndrome, they will give her her brother and feed her lies about the other party and she will become the double agent the title says she is.
Hoping for her to betray both parties and kill the old general AND the white-haired dude with all the training on betray and poison they have given her.

Am I the only one who is reminded by this story of the dark/original versions of fairy tales?!?!?
It's just... Sleeping Princess' rape, Thumbelina's kidnapping and forced marriage, etc. It's just as if this girl is living all the bad moments of other fairytales! I just hope it ends as in Cinderella with her making all the characters who are supporting the prince and the prince dance over hot coal till they die.

The gardener is Prince Adam (aka Beast in Belle and the Beast), and FL marries him because he is her prince.
At least I want this outcome (╯TД T)╯╧╧
I want her to end up with the gardener.
On a serious note, it just doesn't make any sense that there is only one prince but many princesses. I think that there are other princes as well. So, maybe the gardener IS Prince Adam, that's why he's with the roses.

As someone who has lived in a very similar situation I have to say:
The MC is gonna need a lot of therapy. She is going to have issues.
It's not easy to start making your own decisions without second-guessing if it's alright or good enough when you have a parent who controls your every movement. She's bound to have anxiety, depression and possibly other mental illnesses. (Hi, this is me)
Then, she doesn't really know what love is or what it actually implies. She admitted that like/love for her is suffocating because of her mother so either she will become someone who has toxic love relationships or have enough intelligence to know that her mother's love is toxic and not repeat the pattern.
The MC is lucky, she will be healed by the power of love and fiction.

Ok, so I don't want Colette to die so possible happy endings...
*maybe* Demeter will adopt and roast her to make her a Goddess (yeah, this happens in one of the myths) and they are happy ever after.
OR
She actually dies and reincarnates into Persephone. I think so because one of the names Persephone has is "Kore" and Colette (KOREte) (I don't know much Japanese but I think it would pronounced as this) so... You know... Also, Kore means "maiden" and that's what she is now, so..... ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶

It's 5.15 am where I live, I just binge read thing and I just want the emperor and the Trash to finally suffer for everything they do to our Empress.
Also, I believe that the male trash is actually in love with our Empress, it's just that the trash thought that she would always be the naive happy child he grew up with so when she acts as an Empress must do, he doesn't like it. Then he found some trash that mimicked her in their young days and he thinks he's in love with the trash. That's why he has these contradictory actions towards her: trying to make her remember when they were young (the trip to the villa), getting jealous when she's with Queen (sorry probable ML, I don't remember your real name) or with hot magician Duke (sorry beautiful 2nd male lead, you have a name difficult to remember) because she was showing her emotions openly to them but not to him.
Anyway, trash with trash and royalty with royalty, our Empress must end with her Queen. ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ノ~
Wait, so basically she will be forced to be alive and constantly endure mistreatment until shitty husband favours her completely and somehow forgive her shitty husband AFTER he experiences things her way? While also helping him with his business because he is a shitty negotiator? Then get her hopes renewed because "he now knows about my suffering and is treating me kindly"?
Oh fuck no. No way in hell. THAT'S TOXIC! AND SHE CANNOT EVEN ESCAPE THROUGH DEATH?
I'm her and I'm telling him "hey, you bought me for X amount of money? Ok, I'll manage your reunions for you. Once I paid back that money as you wanted, I'm off. See you never and fvck you, your money and your hypocrisy."
I think I accidentally clicked dislike (/TДT)/ I meant to agree. I pity the husbands past but it’s very unfair that the FL has to bear all the blame for nothing she did. He didn’t even try to understand her before deciding she’s the same bigot as the pthers and that makes him the same low bigot he hates tbh