That’s what I was thinking as well! He obviously was just putting up an act and didn’t want her to stab herself... the prince and dad were most likely working together since only the prince could leave the room the dad knew it would be the safest place for her to be. If only the father wasn’t so bad at showing affection...
Exactly. I think the father planned to rescue her after the king had calmed down that’s why he gave her the sword and told her to survive but she didn’t wait and just killed herself cause she thought she was going to get tortured.
And what if the emperor was the suspect behind the poisoning
i'm also thinking of the same thing! what if mikhail was the emperor's way of controlling the Duke (by what he said 'controlling juve') and then mikhail falls for the princess so he 'poisoned' the princess and make it seem like it was Juve's doing so the Crown Prince and the Duke's plan to overthrow the Emperor gets slowed down or smth
so what if in the novel, the orig fl was given the sword so she can show it to the crown prince and have them escape or smth