Giving this 5 stars purely for Leona and Etienne's characters. Theymakeupthisstory. Fkin Rishar's headass is entirely reckless and gets Etienne into more trouble than ANY situation is worth, alas, if it wasn't for his horrible first impression, I would've shipped Etienne with Mathias on plot development alone tbr
Also, Antoine is such a sweet and genuinely interesting character. Love their backstory despite the lack of use for it.
HATE HATE HATE The emperor's cowardly bitchass btw. Was almost made homophobic when Rishar revealed dude loved his father during peak hating-the-emperor's-bitchass hours










This was the most emotionally and sexually sufficient poly-orgy I've read in a long while. I've even got some (alot of) funny bulletpoints that got me through it...
• Wow, Nox really went and casually had a healthy one-night stand, no thoughts, good for him
• Derrick demoted to cuckchair
• Despite Yuri's hate boner, he's never hurtfully violent with Nox, a plus ngl.
• Derrick...
• bro demoted himself to the cuckchair, we stan a soldier