MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE REST OF THE WEBTOON (FROM THE NOVEL)
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okay i read the novel a while ago and so the vague outline of the rest of the book is like this but probably not in this order:
- navier and sovieshu gets divorced after navier explains to heinley what is happening
- heinley also agrees to take in navier’s brother koshar into his kingdom as a noble after he’s banished by sovieshu
- navier and heinley get married
- navier finds out about heinley being the bird queen and all the other bird magic
- navier is also good at magic! she just couldn’t find out until she married heinley
- navier gets pregnant !!!! she can bear a child!!! i’m pretty sure she ends up birthing twins too, a boy and a girl i think
- it turns out, sovieshu purposely took in rashta as a concubine BECAUSE she was a slave bc he just wanted an heir but without noble family ties and stuff so he planned in disposing on rashta after she bore him a child
- but the baby rashta is pregnant with is NOT sovieshu’s child !! it’s count roteschu’s son’s child that she was bearing. she was already pregnant when she met sovieshu = fake heir
- count roteschu’s family (everyone except the daughter who was friends with navier) dies
- sovieshu falls out of a window (?) and loses his memories to like 10 years ago so now he’s confused why he’s divorced from navier bc he still loves her → idk where this went tho
it’s a pretty good ending for navier :)
Ok so here are the spoilers I’ve read form
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Sovieshu's plan is to both acquire an heir and a perfect empress.
When they were children he sneaked into the previous empress's (mother's) room and found cookies which he gave to Navier. Navier suggests they eat it together. Later on, the previous empress was more anxious than angry that he took the cookies because it was for a countess that seemed to be currently favored by the emperor at that time. He found out it's mixed with poison that causes miscarriage with a side effect of infertility. She asked him if he shared the cookies but he quickly replied no. He lied instinctively, feeling that it's something no one should find out.
So because there is still no child between Sovieshu and Navier, Sovieshu concludes that one of them is sterile.
At that point in time, he was very stressed with the pressure the nobles and aristocrats were putting on him for not having a child to inherit the throne. Not only that, if he didn't bear an heir soon the throne would go to his uncle's son and his bloodline would lose the reign of the monarchy. That's what scared him because he knew how harsh royalty was. After all, he spent some of his childhood watching the previous emperor (his father) with his concubines while his mother was abandoned. So when Trashta comes in, she's like a stress relief away from everyone's prejudice and the indifference of his wife.
Mind you, Sovieshu may be an asswipe but he is not one to crave countless women in order to satisfy his ego. Even though Navier was not the perfect wife, she was the perfect empress and a child between them would've been perfect as well had it not been for that cookie (lmao). So if he could not bear a child with her, Trashta will do (his plan sounded perfect in his own head lmao).
So Trashta is already pregnant but the child is still an offspring of a commoner so he/she cannot become a prince/princess. This is why Sovieshu kept bugging Navier to adopt the child so that he/she will have the legitimate right to take the throne, thereby securing his bloodline.
But because Navier would not give in to adopting the bastard child (thank goodness queen) Sovieshu diverts to a different plan: divorce Navier and make Trashta empress for a year so that the child claims a royal right. Then when that year ends, he takes Navier back and kicks Trashta out. So Sovieshu basically didn't see much value in Trashta except for her fertility and her frail and affectionate side that Navier was not. fsr he has this fetish with women who rely on him but Navier was independent af so suck on that.
Soveishu's downfall is not telling Navier of his plan. Before Trashta came along, Navier and Sovieshu were at most civil to each other. Navier does not love Sovieshu (cause she kinda treats her role as empress as an office job) however, Sovieshu loves Navier but he won't realize it until he loses her.
So not only were they colleagues (to the throne) they were childhood friends who knew each other by the back of their hands. But Sovieshu bitch decides he could handle batshit on his own. He basically plotted everything but because he didn't tell Navier, he made it seem like he was in love with Trashta and inconsiderately stabbed her emotions countless times. Insensitive ass bitch, I know.
Another thing is that he didn't realize how crafty and cunning Trashta could be. So shit was gonna go loose when Navier stepped down from the throne.
Next, Sovieshu ends up mentioning his plan to Trashta (1-year empress trial). Without his knowledge, Navier was actually listening to their conversation. This makes Navier leave the palace where she bumps into Heinley somewhere. Heinley confesses that he needs a queen to stand by him in his kingdom (Heinley's home is a kingdom, not an empire) and he wants Navier to be queen. Navier then offers marriage and he accepts but is confused because she's still married. She says she'll tell him the details soon.
Navier continues sending letters to the blue bird (Heinley's attendant) and Sovieshu takes notice of this; speculating Navier is communicating with Heinley. So he orders to kill any bird that goes near the empress's chambers. Navier sends a warning but the bird confuses it and ends up getting hurt (blood, feathers, and all). Sovieshu bitch even sends a bird stew to Navier as warning, fuckin hell. The bird doesn't die though, because Duke Elgy (Heinley's friend and the man Trashta is borrowing money from) saves the bird and becomes the means of communication between Navier and Heinley.
Meanwhile, Trashta (already knowing Sovieshu's plan) feels that she cannot compare to Navier. Duke Elgy suggests she studies so that's what she does. She studies while being accompanied by Sovieshu but she keeps complaining so Sovieshu keeps comparing her to Navier and she gets mad. This keeps happening; she studies, acts fake-cute af in front of Sovieshu, borrows money from Duke Elgy, and pays money to Viscount Rostechu.
At some point, Trashta also hires assassins to kill the Troby couple (Navier's parents). Then Navier's brother also attempts to poison Trashta to kill her child. He ends up being punished by Sovieshu for it. Sovieshu then uses Navier's brother's crimes as leverage in order to strengthen the divorce.
On the day of the divorce, Sovieshu embarrasses Navier and claims she tried to harm his daughter. The High Priest is present in order to conclude the divorce. This is when Heinley enters as Navier asks the High Priest to bless her second marriage.
Sovieshu is salty af and even locks Navier, Heinley, Navier's fam in their house while he searches for any laws that could null and void Navier's second marriage. The blue bird (Heinley's attendant) appears to save Heinley, Navier, and the rest. Sovieshu goes crazy and demands to find them.
When Navier leaves, Sovieshu goes paranoid because he felt she really wasn't coming back. So he doesn't drop Trashta from the empress seat because he put a lot of effort into doing it (faking Trashta's noble background and shit) but he does question whether their daughter is his or not. He uses magic to clarify the paternity; he was scared because he made so many enemies by divorcing Navier just to have an heir so there's no way he could save his dignity as emperor. It'll also shatter his reassurance that he isn't sterile because Navier is now pregnant with Heinley's child (Sovieshu and Navier are both sterile but Navier and Heinley did (づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ on some magical bed which is why she got pregnant). He prayed it really was his because he couldn't bear to live with the knowledge that he lost Navier for nothing.
Trashta apparently slept with the Viscount's son which is why's she's pregnant. But because she was also sleeping with Sovieshu, she didn't know the baby daddy (lmao). At some point, she also gets a scar on her face (her only redeemable quality) so Sovieshu starts to lose interest in her.
It's revealed that Duke Elgy has only been getting information from Trashta. He's Heinley's friend and so, by Heinley's request, he got close to Trashta and got her to borrow money from him and some shit. Everything Trashta did, he told Heinley.
So Trashta's crimes are brought to light and she's imprisoned. Somehow she ends up killing herself.
Sovieshu rejects the bastard child and has no heir to the throne.
Heinley and Navier live happily ever after :)
I seriously can't wait for the part when the idiot emperor divorced the empress and then getting shocked when when the empress asked for remarry and choose the new king as her husband.
But what happened after that???