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OP!????? YOU SPILLED THE REAL SHIT!!! MAKE IT LOUDER FOR THE PPL AT THE BACK

LOUDER!!!! You're right at this point my hatred for Diana is not even close as my hatred to Helios. I know she's immature and it's her faults too for doing stupid things and not doing her crown princess job properly. But Helios as her husband?!? What did he do, all he knows is getting embarrassed of Diana when literally abandoned hid best friend for her. Helios as a husband should fully know well that it's also his job as a husband and a crown prince to guide, teach, and gives support to Diana

Babe u spoke FAAACTTSSS!!!

Agree with everything you said except the part about Diana's is lacking guidance, insecure, and simply acting out.

First, Diana was originally given a lot of guidance and support by so many people around her in the palace and that includes Helios (shocker but he really did support her greatly at the start), The Emperor, Madam Harmonia, Madam Merope (the palace's head maid), etc. but Diana was extremely prideful and obstinate. According to her, everyone around her that didn't shared her ideals are wrong and misguided, and she was under a mission to "guide" them into her ways of living. But that's putting Helios in the tough spot because like it or not they're the Crown Prince and Princess and the palace and the nobles hold a certain ideals and rules that has to be followed. Which she didn't want to.

Second, she's only insecure because her power starts to diminish. She's originally secure enough because she knows the power of her position as the Crown Princess, and it would be even more had her power stayed the same. Look at the way she treats Hestia and other noble ladies.

Lastly, Diana was never acting out simply because of Helios' attitude or lack of affirmation. Diana is acting out because Hestia came and ruined her plans. For example, she planned for the church to raise in power and influence with the help of the empire, despite knowing about their corruption. She also planned to string Kaelus forever to her because she believes Kaelus will love her indefinitely despite her rejection. Too bad Hestia provokes her and her real personality came out.

I'm sorry I didn't meant to start an argument because that's just my personal opinion but honestly Diana was never a naive and "simply misunderstood" woman. Maybe things will be clearer in the future chapters. We can always agree to disagree after all hehe (・∀・)

CLOCK THAT TEAAAA!!!!

Both of y’all ate that. (づ￣ ³￣)づ I totally agree with you.

I never intended to excuse Diana's behavior, and I aggree with everything you said.

What I want is for people to stop solely putting all the negativity on her, forgetting Helios is just as much to blame. By blaming only Diana, they excuse Helios. Diana's a raging wildfire, but she could've stayed as a contained bonfire had Helios been a more of a decent husband. She is accountable for her choices, but so is Helios.

And I am pretty sure he never tried to guide her personally, instead he kept appointing people (like Merope, Harmonia) to guide her. And then he even asked Hestia to talk to Diana! To the conceited Diana those are people who are of lower status trying to tell her what to do. She's too prideful to take their advice. All this shit would've been avoided if Helios was more decisive and took matters into his own hands instead of asking people deal with and fix his own wife for him.

And then when it all went to hell, Helios just gave up on her and started dreaming about another woman he barely knows.

Exactlyyy. Also, people seem to forgot that Diana only had those people around her for hee powers. I think it's narrow-minded (and lowkey misogynistic btw) to simply blame her for everything. She was a commoner. Have you seen the elitist shit they say about her? She wasn't just unguided properly, she was also clearly misguided. I remember in the novel there was a part that both the Emperor and Helios (and actually even Kaelus) admitted to spoiling Diana—just basically letting her be irresponsible, seeing and making decisions based on a black and white belief. This, of course, isn't an excuse because, still, she chose that and many people got the brunt of those choices. But also, the people around her especially HELIOS, her HUSBAND, should have been there to talk to her more and try more, rather than simply giving up and lowkey start ostracizing her. Helios talked to Diana about all of the shit that went down only ONCE, which he failed at, and he didn't try again.

You're definitely not wrong for understanding Diana's POV. It's actually so refreshing seeing someone not solely blame Diana for everything while Helios gets away scot-free.

That was exactly what I was trying to get across. But you elaborated this better. Thank you.

I think we definitely have to hold people accountable for their actions, but we must also hold accountable those people, who were close to the person in question and whose actions have pushed the person in question to become what they are. Because a person does not become who they are alone.

And Diana has become like this because she was put on a pedestal all this time. But in truth, people only admired an idealistic image of her they had in their head. And most only admired her for her powers.

The worst part is Helios was one of the admirers. And even worse than that - once the image has shattered, he got disillusioned and gave up. And then, if you thought it could not possibly get even worse - he's now doing the same thing to Hestia. He barely knows her ffs. Ugh, I can't believe he indirectly confessed to her in front of Kael, makes my blood boil!