buddy she always and also didnt she ask herself the same question what about the king drives her mad enuf to do all that? in my opinion the king as victim asd he ids of everyone and his won actiona isd just pathetic notheless Bruv backed himaewlf into a corner clinging on to the hope of getting the step moms love and her son and no one else like wat doesd he left nowe nothing? and literally melinox she didnt have to stoop low for king she got ewnuf power to be the empress with or without him if ahe wanted
I believe the king knows he isn’t really king-material. He lacks the strategic mind, the power, the connections, and the conviction to be a king. The only thing keeping him on the throne is his familial love to our ML. Though the ML’s mother too, but i believe that the mother is now nothing more than a hunting memory (of what kept him not give up as a prince in a stupid power-struggle and stupid father, obsessing over the concept of loving someone who loves his physical shell) than a relentless love.
I can’t word it properly… anyway, he’s staying because he’s a person that uses love as a reason to live, and right now his brotherly love is keeping him alive as a person. Being a king is but a means and a side quest

why doesn't the empress want his love now like she didn't rape him multiple times? Bitch gtfo