I don't why you all are hating on the queen. She didn't anything wrong and just cause she suggested that it doesn't mean to make ari's life miserable or smth. She's the queen, she needs to do what's the best for the kingdom. Alfonso said that he's plan would take 20 years and bro he is already engage and there's no engagement that last 20 years just to break it up for someone. That's why the queen propose ari to be a mistress. Y'all should be hating on the king instead of her.
And abt arabella I really wasn't prepared for her death ╥﹏╥ I cried and still can't get over, but the author is so cruel for this using Arabella's death to make ari and alfonso a closure and all (TT)
I think the author was trying to establish either the equivalent exchange or inevitable fate. If its the first then someone else must die for someone who was supposed to die in the first TL to live in this TL. Instead of Alphonso and Ari this time maybe Cesaer and Isabella would die but there is noone in exchange for Arabella. If its the later then some characters' deaths are inevitable like Arabella and the Queen.
The mc is so real for this, kinda feel bad to see him not getting what he wanted HAHSHWHSHW