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He also didn't even have the decency to explain this plan to Navier, not that she would have agreed, but she would have at least thought she'd get her position back. At the moment the only reason she chose Heinley is that she only knows how to be a Queen/Empress. Of course the entire plan is still a bitch move

This emperor seems to have lost his mind. So....he wanted to divorce his wife and married his mistress so that his heir can be legitimate and he wanted his ex wife to wait until the child is born then he'll divorce his current wife and remarry her, then they'll both raise the child together?
So what? The now ex wife will go back to being the mistress? How exactly did he think this was a good plan? Navier already told him she will not raise that child. He was planning to embarrass her yet he still thought she would remarry him? I guess he thought since she didn't have any choice if he decided to divorce her then he could control her entirely. Well, jokes on him.