Responses
Since I hadn't read this for a while I completely forgot who Mode was and got genuinely confused
You are naive. It's a heavy crime to deceive and insult the royal family especially an issue as sensitive as heir to the throne a.k.a the emperor's child.
If it would just end in exile in the end, that would be too light of sentence for their crime.
At least the child was loved since she is innocent.
I feel like it would have been better to announce that Mode died in childbirth and the child was stillborn and exile Alexis, Mode, and the child instead of killing Alexis and confining Mode. I know this end for them is more “real,” but I felt it was unnecessary.