He thinks his dad can do no wrong, because accepting that his dad forced himself on an innocent woman and forced her to have a kid is too much of a cognitive dissonance, which would destroy his fragile ego that’s built from having his dad be the most powerful man in the empire, he rather continue to believe the emperor is admirable than accept the truth. That’s why he’s delusional.

The prince and the emperor are both crazy and delusional af..it’s not even cute (╬ ̄皿 ̄)凸