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I really like how in this story almost so the people who are helping the empress are women.
I feel like normally in stories like these they create a reverse harem situation where all the possible LIs have a chance to help the FL when she’s having a crisis or even when she can handle it herself one of them come at the end for one reason or another. It always takes away from the “strong FL” that the author is trying to create and I always think it’s annoying tbh.
I like how in this story the empress doesn’t recurve much help even from the emperor it’s not like she’s really recurving his help it’s more like she’s telling him what she wants to do and he’s going along with it. The only other male “helper” she has is Sing and he doesn’t interfere with her plans either.
She doesn’t really need anyone’s help and all her “pawns” (for lack of better wording) are all women. Even the petty villains that arise are mostly men rather than the typical jealous, evil woman who wants the ML’s attention (even though we had a couple of those too).
Idk it’s not like this is the most amazing story I’ve ever read and I definitely think it’s being dragged out a little bit but I find it refreshing.