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I had no expectations and I was still disappointed.
Like, I mean it. I'm down for some dark degenerate gruesome weird story with irredeemable characters. But, hmmm, there's a million loose ends with the story that ended up going nowhere. It seems like it ended abruptly too, like it just jumped to the end. I guess maybe the story wasn't really even seriously thought out. Just the concept of it was made but the story was just something they had to do in order to get the concept out.
Anyway whatever, weird is weird. Admittedly, I guess I was slightly expectant of some great big twist or revelation at some point.
Ex-husband is the peak example of the saying "you can't have your cake, and eat it too". Bro wanted both ways to work.
I've gotta say though, this is one of the rarest instance I've seen where the antagonists are not actually just flat-out shallow villains. I mean I completely acknowledge their wrong doings, but I can see that Sovieshu and Rashta have genuine consciences, compassion, and sympathy at times.
Low-key makes this revenge more meaningful because it's slightly more complicated than just punishing bad guys. It's actually harder to carry it out since you want to get revenge on them, but at the same time, can't fully bring yourself to hurt them directly, because again, it's complicated. They even have such sincerely pitiful backstories.
Idk, it sometimes weighs in my conscience as the viewer whenever I think of what that crazy Rashta went through as a slave child then being impregnated by her master then abandoned and having to hold her cold dead child in her hands, and being blackmailed and haunted by them when she tries to leave it in the past.
I think about that, and I feel pity for her. But knowing she could've already had her Cinderella fairy tale ending when she married the Emperor but then kept repeatedly choosing to use harsh and cruel methods on other people even after being coddled and given what she wants, earns her the appropriate backlashes she's getting now.
Same with the ex-husband, I can see he genuinely loves his baby and would even make his daughter the first empress that inherits the throne with no discrimination between sons or daughters, and he didn't even mind the mistress having already a son outside. But he can't expect to keep FL after doing what he did to her, if he truly deeply cared about her, he would have prioritized her feelings. He could have possibly even gotten FL's infertility cured with magic during their marriage if he fessed up about those cookies instead of hiding his mother's scheme. But nopp, he only listened to himself and did only what he thought was for the best.
So yeah. The antagonists are getting what they deserve but it's not the easiest revenge to see unfold as the viewers. Satisfying but also complicated.