In reality, an FL like this would definitely be killed off just like what that minister's daughter tried to do. If she doesn't wise up, she'll suffer. History has had successful concubines rise up to power. Cixi and Wu Zetian are famous (or some might argue, infamous) for achieving peak success and becoming the de facto ruler of China. They didn't get there by being kind and naive.
Look, I'm all for character development. Priscilla's Marriage Request, Under the Oak Tree, Lucia, I'm all for it! Stan Queens that have the courage to come into their own. Problem is, I see no attempts on FL's part to change, no desire for her to be stronger. Her only role, as she is now, is to be a source of comfort and bed partner to the Sultan tbh. Now that might change after this incident but according to SPOILERS (warning) that someone posted above
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She doesn't marry the sultan, meaning she doesn't even become Queen. If this is true, it's extremely misleading since she's supposedly the Sultan's true love and all. I think that's where all the outrage is. We simply except rulers to be brave, strong, and cunning. They lead and become responsible for their people's lives after all. The life of a kind, simple girl like FL would be nice to read about if she were a normal person but it's honestly frustrating to see when she's the mother of a country.
wait she doesn't marry him no way um gonna murder (︶︿︶)=凸 kainer my self if he marries someone else i didn't know that hes not gonna marry her hopefully this changes and they marry each other then this gonna be shit more then the sex scenes um waiting for them to be happy and saye to develop into an amazing women smart and strong. bruh wtf um pissed hopefully this isnt trueee ╥﹏╥. but thanks for telling us
i looked too many spoiler sites and i dont think its novel has been aired so which means there is no spoiler, and btw i agree what you said + in ottoman empire Hürrem Sultana become the Valide Sultan of the new Emperor, but she was cunning, smart and a kind of manipulating but achieved her goal no matter what but this woman actually has no one to compete maybe because of this but for me she needs more time she has no idea how world works u kno? i hope she becames a great woman but pretty sure it will take a reallu long time ╥﹏╥
how tf do you expect her to be a powerfull female lead, if you do not know how harem works then stfu cuz in harems its not like you can do whatever you want and in this one its not even realistic, most of the empires have large harems and someone to take care of keeping the number of concubines, when emperor visits the harem all of the concubines falls into a line and emperor picks one of them to spend the night, people who take care of harem can be violent too, so concubines do not have any freedom or choices at all, all of them are controlled how tf do you expect them to be someone strong even if they are this woman, saye spend her 11 years without talking to someone and she was only 7 when she was sold here, please try to consider these cirumstates, think about a child not knowing what love from someone is, and not knowing the real world outside how can she be confident? jesus please shut up if you do not know any of these