I honestly don't understand where you people saw that the author portrayed Rashta as pure evil. If anything, I thought she's a very pitiful character, and it was pretty obvious to me that Sovieshu was intended as the real villain. I got the idea that Navier felt like that as well. Like, she didn't per se like Rashta, but she was mostly ignoring her while she was so hurt by Sovieshu's actions leading her to lose her status as empress, especially since she was preparing her whole life for that role. She was so disappointed in him for ruining the image of the royal family that both of them built. And you guys like to say, 'she hated Rashta for being a slave,' which is ridiculous. She was afraid of the people's backlash if it got out that the emperor's concubine was a slave, which was against the law at the time. Basically, the whole time Navier only cared about the royal family's image and being an empress, which is why the story is titled the way it is. Only at the end did she figure out how having a loving family and children with the man she loves is also something to look forward to, and only then did she drop the whole 'ice queen' persona. Like, you're free to think whatever you want, but I think most of you confuse the opinions of the people of the Western Empire with the author's personal beliefs I only assume that a lot of you are young and have problems with internalised misogyny, so you enjoy putting women against each other, while clearly true villains are men of both empires and the girls tried their best to fix problems mostly men caused them
I honestly don't understand where you people saw that the author portrayed Rashta as pure evil. If anything, I thought she's a very pitiful character, and it was pretty obvious to me that Sovieshu was intended as the real villain. I got the idea that Navier felt like that as well. Like, she didn't per se like Rashta, but she was mostly ignoring her while she was so hurt by Sovieshu's actions leading her to lose her status as empress, especially since she was preparing her whole life for that role. She was so disappointed in him for ruining the image of the royal family that both of them built. And you guys like to say, 'she hated Rashta for being a slave,' which is ridiculous. She was afraid of the people's backlash if it got out that the emperor's concubine was a slave, which was against the law at the time. Basically, the whole time Navier only cared about the royal family's image and being an empress, which is why the story is titled the way it is. Only at the end did she figure out how having a loving family and children with the man she loves is also something to look forward to, and only then did she drop the whole 'ice queen' persona. Like, you're free to think whatever you want, but I think most of you confuse the opinions of the people of the Western Empire with the author's personal beliefs
I only assume that a lot of you are young and have problems with internalised misogyny, so you enjoy putting women against each other, while clearly true villains are men of both empires and the girls tried their best to fix problems mostly men caused them