Cheating is never justified but it is understandable

I'm not saying that I approve of cheating in general and while I understand why someone cheats it doesn't mean I approve. So while I understand how pitiful and desperate mc was for affection (look at how the dad love his niece compared to his daughter to the point of having his niece become the heiress for a family line she's not from) and how she was manipulated into situations it doesnt justified her cheating.

While I'm glad she wanted to call of her engagement, bc of manipulation and politics she was encourage to stay in her engagement. Now the fiance never really communicated with mc to begin with and has a contributing part to her cheating, not that he is the sole reason for her cheating, she's also to blame obviously.

mc was literally groomed into her situation and she's a child with her frontal lobe not fully developed (yes I know this is fiction). The other guy was a predator and I don't understand why the fiance didn't try to stop it. [Maybe he just wanted mc to be happy?] Especially since she's mentally and emotionally stunted she was a prime victim to use. MC was taken advantage of, fiance was just a background character that truly cares for mc but never displayed it when needed and didn't support her physically and the disgusting excuse of a prince manipulated the naive mc to obtain the crown and cousin (I wanna know how the cousin is really involve...like how was she able to be the queen? Did she collaborate with him?).

Now bc the pov is from the mc we sympathize with her so we're not that harsh against her but image if this was trasha? We would also sympathize with her and say the empress is cruel and coldhearted. We based our trust and affection towards the one we view things from and try to justify their behavior cause thats our narrator.


Now with THAT manwha, from my understanding the prince also came back in time and tried his best to right his wrongs and became endgame but the pov is from the mc who suffered from him and the manipulations around him. So we never see the full extent of his struggles and how he's trying to right his wrong from his first life. I admire someone that if they go back in time they try their best to fix themselves and the things that happened around them to prevent traumatic events from happening. Apparently he also tried to not marry the MC and have her live a happy life without him but she fell back in love with him (even knowing her past life trauma). The reason why I dropped it was because she vowed to never fall in love with the prince again and make her family safe and whatnot. She found an amazing new love interest and was able to move away from her trauma and the person who cause majority of it (yeah he was drugged but still, it's the principle of the matter for me) but instead it's like she forgot all her trauma and lost all her character development when she married him.

The story could've been made better honestly but what I'm trying to say is that cheating isn't justified whether it's the girl or guy whose doing it. They should be held accountable regardless. Cheating is cheating and it's so much more simple to just end the relationship instead of betraying their trust. I know this is an arranged marriage and she did try to cancel her engagement but she didn't and kept cheating. And I understand that from the mc she never saw her fiance as her fiance just as a stranger so she didn't have much faith in her marriage to him when the other prince showered her with attention and affection. But I digress.