Lmaoo not even? She's literally a homewreker who thought that just because she was cute and "innocent" she'd get away with everything including theft and attempted murder. Rashta dug her own grave by acting like she did and Navier wasn't having that shit playing second fiddle to a slave hoe who started shit with Navier. She became a victim of her own shit and it all backfired
First off she could have said no because sovishu knew exactly what she was and still chose to protect her over everything else including getting her fake ass parents, she was given an education during her time there, and no one befriended the actual slave owner aka the father. The daughter didn't own rashta it was the father and Navier never even had contact with him so idk where you got "befriending" slave owners cause that didn't happen. Rashta decided to become greedy as fuck and fucked around and found out. She made fun of the fact that they thought Navier was infertile and couldn't have kids which was "why the emperor divorced her". She's a home wrecking hoe that got what was coming to her and the only tyrant in the whole story was rashta and sovishu. Rashta cut out a maids tongue, had the man who helped her ass escape assassinated, tried to have other people killed and tried kidnapping and selling her own son.
The problem with this argument is that it judges Rashta as if she started the story with the same freedom, education, status, and support system as everyone else.
Yes, Rashta committed terrible acts later in the story. Nobody is denying that. But reducing her entire character to "she was greedy and got what she deserved" ignores that she began as an escaped slave who spent her life being abused, exploited, and treated as property.
Saying "she could have said no" to Sovieshu also ignores the massive power imbalance between a former slave and an emperor. Even if Sovieshu knew she was a slave, he was still the most powerful man in the empire and the person controlling her future. That's not a situation where someone can freely make choices without fear.
And while Navier never personally owned slaves, she still benefited from and largely accepted a system where slavery existed. That's why some readers criticize the empire itself rather than just individual characters.
The issue isn't whether Rashta did bad things, she did. The issue is why people are willing to analyze Navier, Sovieshu, and the nobility with nuance, but Rashta gets reduced to "homewrecker" and "fake ass slave." A character can be both a victim and a perpetrator. Those aren't mutually exclusive.
Rashta's crimes don't erase her victimization, and her victimization doesn't erase her crimes. Treating either side as if it doesn't exist is what creates a biased reading of the story.
Ts so dumb anyone of rashta’s upbringing would do the exact same things she did. It’s a matter of how you’re impacted by your environment. She wouldn’t have acted so entitled if Sovieshu and the noblemen around her didn’t enable and falsely validate her to begin with. There’s a whole side story about how things would have been so different had Navier found her first. You also talk like that daughter of the slave owner wasn’t treating her like shit while she was living with them as THEIR slave. It’s a matter of survival of the fittest for her because everyone else was born with the privilege of growing up educated and with prestige and respectable backgrounds, it’s not rocket science that she’s gonna go crazy from getting a taste of that privilege and wanting more, then she gets betrayed by people she trusts and people that enabled her. “Homewrecking hoe” and it’s a fucking victim who has no real say because she is a SLAVE getting rescued by an EMPEROR who has more power than her whole bloodline and her slave owner’s bloodline. If you were a slave running away from intense abuse and you got saved by the emperor because he thought you were pretty, would you want to go back to your slave owners and get your ass beat every day or would you stay with the emperor, where is it comfortable and you are on the path to gaining more power and getting your get-back? And fuck that baby bro omg it would be better to give it up to someone else than have it be raised in the palace and treated like dog shit anyways. I’m seeing a whole lot of shit on, once again, A VICTIM SLAVE who didn’t know any better at the start and is just trying to make the most out of the opportunity forced on her, but I’m not seeing enough heat for Sovieshu or even Ergi. Always wanna put the blame on the most obvious choice cuz it’s easy but you gonna gloss over the man who started the whole thing to begin with? You just as much of a bird as Rashta.
(I agree with you)
It's a very familiar language of victim blamers "What was she wearing" "She could've said no" the fact that this reader could possibly be a girl is ironic, isn't it? Imagine going home from work late at night or if you're alone in an alley in daytime and someone cat called you aking to go out with you, you keep saying no, and all that leads to your final breath.
It's funny to think that Rashta saying "No" might lead into her being forced back into slavery and possibly get killed and get buried thay doesn't even have her name nor got her justice in the first place, that's the alternate universe if Rashta is not as naive as the novel made her to be

Worst story written by Elitist, antagonizing a poor victim slave girl. Author is definitely not a good person