Imagine doing your best to make life a living hell for a child and still expect him to have mercy for you after begging him. Couldn’t be me ╮(￣▽￣)╭ that’s why I was surprised when she let him go to school. I think this is the one decision I find so incongruent with her characterization. She’s been shown to be ruthless and not afraid to use her family but she let an illegitimate child that threatens her own child’s claim to the throne leave her watch and allowed him to attend a school with other nobles… did she try to have him killed while he was in school? I don’t remember.
Yeah, she tried to kill him while he was in school. I don't really remember well but I think she just needed him away and not get in her way. Little did she know that he'd accumulate power in an unexpected way. It's not like he has any major nobles on his side, except for Lombardi. Even Sershou seemed like he was on Angenas' side until the last moment. Brown family was removed from nobility, so they were pretty much commoners. So, I'd say that the queen's character isn't incongruent. It shows how her arrogance was the cause of her own downfall.
Yes! In the yearssss he was in school he has dealt with MULTIPLE assassination attempts. It was also why he refused to see Tia even during school breaks because she might get involved (among other things). So yes, in a way the empress thought stupidly that the prince might get killed because he has no protection there.
Yeah I agree. I didn’t think about her arrogance. If I was in her shoes, I wouldn’t want them to leave my sight but who’s to say she didn’t plant spies around him?
As soon as she said “a rabbit’s heart…” with that pose, I knew it was Vivi who told her that stuff!
These fools think they’re smart but watch as they willingly walk into the web spun by Tia and Clerivan
I knew it! It was either gonna be incredibly touching or a gag gift. But considering the recent events it makes more sense for it to be a touching gift. I wanted to see what the crying duke would’ve looked like tho. Excuse me while I go finish crying over in my corner
Who are yall siding with between dojin and hyesung? While I think dojin yelling didn’t really help to accomplish things, I’m on his side. What he said stuck with me: you’re the one who gave up what you were good at to go study. And responding to byul’s question with “because I trusted you”. He was willing to let byul do what he wanted even tho he knew that studying wasn’t byul’s strong suit. It’s not about the results either. He just wanted to see byul do his best. I don’t think he was expecting anything like top 10 considering byul’s strengths but he definitely wasn’t expecting those scores. The way he sees it, byul betrayed his trust with those scores. He hardly sees him studying and byul doesn’t say anything about needing help either. So of course he was mad because byul isn’t taking it seriously. But then again, maybe these should’ve been communicated to byul instead of just letting him do what he wanted.
Def dojin ofc, he's being reasonable. Whereas for hyesung, he never really had all that dojin did, him even being able to achieve education later on in uni was also cause of Dojin providing him study resources so you can tell he means well!!! He made sure to give byul everything which even hyesung wasn't able to have in the past. Def can tell he cares a lot for him as his father :3
dojin. hyesung is way too lenient.
Why are we dragging this on???? Is the author planning for a big redemption for doyeon?! I’m saying this rn, nothing is gonna change me to like him. Nothing about these flashbacks so far has turned me around to him. Maybe I’ll dislike him a little less but I’m not gonna like his character. He’s the epitome of all my hate towards the 2nd love interest in romance. He provides nothing towards being a viable love interest other than he had history with the ML. He only exists as a plot device to “test” the strength of the main couple’s love and trust in each other. Which he’s done. SO WHY ARE WE STILL GOING THROUGH HIS ARC?! He doesn’t seem to have changed much from before!
Maybe I’m too blinded by my bias so can someone who actually likes him tell me why he’s not so bad?
Okay yall. Let’s chill and reread her explanation. While I also agree that her explanation was kinda weak and could’ve probably been written better, the crux of her explanation is that being “different” is lonely. She sees herself as different and can’t fit in with her friends despite their shared interests due to her trauma as a neglected child. She said her friends had “normal lives with loving parents” (not a direct quote) while she lived an “abnormal” one with her grandmother and abandoned by her parents. It was “painful” being the odd one out. SO she didn’t want her older brother to experience the same thing as her: being rejected by everyone because he was dating another man.
She clearly needs therapy because based on what she’s said about them, her friends seem decent. They share a common interest and were willing to celebrate the whole day with her. Clearly she’s feeling some major imposter syndrome and pushing her friends away even tho they probably don’t even know why. She mentions she kinda ghosted them. In other words, she’s lonely but it’s of her own making. Instead of opening up about it to her friends, she keeps up the facade that she also has a loving family and makes herself an outsider because no one else knows. At least based on her story, no one is actually ostracizing her because of her trauma. She’s doing it to herself. Also she can’t support them because she doesn’t want to be “different”, which she would be if she supported them because she’s foreseeing them becoming ostracized for dating.
TLDR: the crux of her explanation is that being “different” is too lonely and hard, therefore if the town people found out about haebom and ho dating, they would be ostracized. And because she wants to fit in, she can’t support them.
Don’t get me wrong, she’s a smart person but she underestimates her opponents too much. And even allowing Perez to leave her sight and go study??? Why even give him the chance to fight back by letting him actually learn governance and skills???
She relies too much on certainty that emperor will choose her son
She doesn’t have as much power as a lot of people assume she does. She doesn’t get final say when it comes to Perez and the emperor is always looking for ways to cut her and her family’s influence.
The redhead is pissing me off. In general, I’m not a fan of people who say one thing but switch it up in the next sentence in a “joking” manner. It’s gaslighting behavior. Especially in this case where she responds to all of his questions with “xxx…jk xp”. No one’s fcking enjoying the game except you btch!
Ugh I wish this stupid blind date thing is over already. As much as I love Sovour and Robert, this is not what I wanted to see from them in the side stories. To be frank, I wasn’t expecting to see much from them anyway. If the guys don’t end up actually engaged/married after this whole thing, I’m gonna riot. Otherwise this whole thing is basically rage bait for the sovour/robert shippers. PLUS, correct me if I’m wrong but the pope barely showed up in the main story! Why is he relevant now?!
Grandpa is so proud of her!!!