Athena Rei

To kind of elaborate on what I mean is from what people are saying is that she only did things because she was being manipulated by all of those around her.. but in the beginning she really wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong I think she deserved better from what happened to her when her arc ended but she did a lot of horrible things, she ruined people’s lives before the divorce and before she even got pregnant. She was all giddy when Naviars lady in waiting was being punished, when she supposedly wanted to be close to Naviar and be friends with her. Rashta tried to humiliate her in front of people. Souvieshu was horrible horrible, he is so bad on soo many levels but I don’t really want to get into him cuz he sucks.

Rashta later in the story convinced her fake parents to try and kill their real daughter with them not knowing who she was but Rashta knew they were her parents while she claimed to try and find Evely.

People did her dirty really bad but she really did a lot of the stuff on her own. Maybe things could’ve been different if the emperor never found her she deserved better, until she didn’t deserve better. She did what she had to, to survive… but and this is a huge but she really did not need to do a majority of the things she did, if she just was herself and whatnot and asked souvieshu for help or whatever things could’ve been better instead of all her her plotting and making bad allies who were trying to harm her. Of course she didn’t know better but I don’t think she was as stupid as she seemed to be.

Another thing is that people seem for forget is that this manhwa is based in a different era before any modern thought process. No slaves cannot consent but she did what she was doing to survive she got with that man’s son and had a baby to try and bring her status up so she wasn’t a slave.. that didn’t work so she ran off and the emperor found her and that’s when her status when up basically immediately. She had it so bad and it’s really so sad but at some point maybe when she first became the concubine she didn’t have to do what she was doing anymore.. she could just live her life without having to try and manipulate people or become like Naviar to stay by the emperors side she did too much.

But anyways this manwha is a historical fantasy, the noble people and royalty grew up in that system and even if they wanted to they couldn’t change the system because that would mean having to rewrite the whole legal system which isn’t even something they can do.. especially Naviar she did not have power like the emperor or anyone else she couldn’t just make changes to the legal system. Plus is the heartbreaking truth but slavery happened all over the world especially criminal based slavery like in this specific story it lasted thousands of years. I don’t get why people wish to pretend it never happened because this story minus all of the fiction and fantasy aspects really happened. People cannot act like none of this never happened, it’s partly why the story is pretty good, because it’s not acting as if the main characters are perfect and that they are the greatest people ever, they all have their faults each character has their faults but it’s all because of their living conditions. It would be amazing if we lived in a world in which since way back in time people were good and didn’t harm other or have slaves or commited crimes. But that’s just not the world we live in. I think this story is great because it highlights those aspects, and it’s why people hate this story because they wish to pretend that characters could do no wrong when in reality and in this manhwa each and every character does bad things, especially the main 4 characters.

Honestly speaking I read all your points and they are actually valid points (low-key didn't read all )
And I think rashta is what makes arguments heated both in the manhwa and in the comments here
But I will say this is that nobody is a green flag or a red flag
They are humans and honestly like it or not they people here behave more humane
Because yes I would hate it if my husband bought and mistress and was a slave as a fact
Yes I don't like how the slavery system works people don't even know how to write slavery at all because years of torture isn't gonna make you be all rainbows and sunshine you know
Honestly are the characters especially navier and rashta are just like us humans there is no good person same way we all have greed or we want something at all cost and all that
They are just two sides of the same coin to me not likable not hateable yh?

Thank you frfr also sorry I write a lot like every time I read people’s comments about this character and that character then how this one is so much better blah blah blah it gets really annoying how no one wants to see the bigger picture. If any one of us was in either of their shoes without the knowledge of the modern world, we would have all ended up with the same beliefs and values.

The slavery wasn’t the best writing but it was pretty accurate for a fictional story since that was how slavery was in many countries for a long time, people would commit crimes and then they would get arrested and given time and they had to work off their time and crimes as slaves. In real life there were a few different types of slavery which is horrible and very sad.. But I usually say when people read the fantasy historical stories and get upset with them is that they cannot handle the history if you read a historical fantasy or even a historical story, it is going to have bad in it no matter what and if you don’t want to read stories like that, watch Bridgerton where they act as if history was a perfect time, when in reality it was harsh and cruel to those who were rich white people. But besides that the story was really well written in my opinion and all the characters are well written as well but people have a hard time looking past twists in front of them and seeing more to the story.

People also forget that this is history we are talking about when women have it had
Also it’s accurate in this type of scenario It’s so funny how people will see a ml who already has a finance bring the fl to an event or to his house and then they just want the fiancé to be happy
Like if the fiancé gets jealous they hate on her honestly speaking I just feel like those kind of people don’t know how to read at all or have never read anything good Yh
That’s it they always look at them and label them in a single sentence without analyzing the world and other side characters which is sad cus no matter how less written a side character has
They have a purpose
I’m low key tired of the stories and the fan
(Still I agree with you on that it is written well )

Simple, they created this whole morality for their saintess Rashta, in order to justify her greediness and murder. Now, they attacked Navier as if she did something to Rashta when in the first place, SHE DIDN’T DO anything at her at all. She just ignored Rashta, Rashta being so full of herself, try to befriend her cuz she knew she got Soveishu backing her, why these readers got their brain fried just to justify a mistress’ doin just because she is abused and being manipulated when in fact all her decisions stems from greediness.