
I can't completely hate them or love them. I feel like they deserve a chance for a good second life. Empress surrounded with men who were handed everything since she was born hence she turned out this way cause we cannot disagree that she's beautiful and cunning. Whereas Astana having an absent father and manipulative mother made him unable to express his feelings in a rightful way and grew up to be this way. Also I heard that Empress loves Astana like a mother who would die for her children. Ngl I want another side story where Astana and Empress were able to live a happy life without any hurdles and the emperor too without the difficulties caused by them

EACH AND EVERY FUCKING CHARACTER IS SO WELL WRITTEN. LIKE THERE WAS A TIME I HATED VINTER/WINTER BUT NOW NOTHING CAN MAKE ME HATE HIM. CAUSE WDYM THAT EACH AND EVERY LIFE HE WAS THE ONLY ONE TO KNOW PENELOPE AND SACRIFICE HIS OWN SOUL TO REPENT TRAPPING HIMSELF IN AN ENDLESS LOOP OF AGONY. EXCEPT DERRICK, EVERYONE IS LOVABLE

Carla and franz just don't sit right with me. I see a deep connection between them but it's just not the romantic one. I literally cannot imagine them being lovey dovey not to mention the weird family connection. They have a platonic connection.
Honestly a perfect ending for carla would be to fulfil her dream just any dream and spend her life peacefully. And for franz it would either be maybe a cute girl or even he could learn to be stronger and prove himself more than his "third son" tag.
Them ending together feels too much forced. Like Carla has gone through enough and now I feel like she should be exposed to something more than just love, guys and relationships.

All of a sudden ml and fl are cozying up like hello are you gonna talk about the confinement???? Maybe be at least wary of ml's sudden arrival at night???? Like come on man it feels like a 2 year old playing with her dolls but instead it's the author with the characters.
Also what the fuck is up with fl "handling" her confinement situation like she did not ask to be saved???? And if you saved her then thank you that's all you have no right to confine a grown ass adult like that and the expect her to have feelings for you. What the fuck is this. The plot's moving slow with suckass scenes and skipping fast on the interesting ones.

With the spoilers it is explained the reason ml acts this way but still some of us are like no and not liking it l. Just wanna say that not all ml should be the same and also not every human process the feelings same way. Maybe he's the type to fall in love easily or just the type of obsess quickly. I love me some yandere typa ml and he gives me the vibe too. Sometimes we don't need life and death situations for 2 people to fall in love. Therefore let him be, it's fresh to see some new type of mls

I agree, besides it's only been a few chapters and other seems to idk if the word hate is the right term but. the story isn't half way there yet we can't just judge too quickly like why he loves her. In time we will know. Besides even if people don't interact they tend to fall in love. Hence we have "they secretly love from a far" kind of trope.
Trust me it's good