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Realistically the emperor is not gonna always be the one in power. There’s too many political parties at hand and the empress is also using dark magic and such so she mostly has the upper hand. The emperor was also assaulted in order to have a child. He did not need to really have found feelings for this child considering the child was a result of his r*pe. To add to that the child IS WHAT THE EMPRESS wished for, and so how was he to know that the empress would abuse the very thing she had wanted from him? Also looking at how everyone’s dying one by one, his family literally being taken away! He’s busy trying to figure out the right way to kill the empress while also maintaining peace like any emperor that has his peoples best interest at hand. When you are an emperor, the nation is your children. It’s unfortunate but being an emperor comes before being a father for the sole fact that it’ll be thousands of lives at stakes in comparison to one or two of your own kids. It’s not an easy thing to weigh and in a proper kingdom he wouldn’t have to weigh it but here he does have to. Plus ML literally makes more sense as a future emperor because he has shown what he could do. Our MC is literally always sick, and hides behind his mother who’s obviously evil (not really by choice). The emperor has done little to the MC aside from ignoring him and not wanting him to be the emperor. Heck as a reader even i even feel that currently he’s not fit to be an emperor AND I know more about his background then the emperor.