Story and plot are initially great. A woman going against gender stereotypes and being truly strong, courageous, and loyal knight.
Then, it goes to shit (although the real shitty part hasn't happened yet in the manhua).
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The emperor she serves marries 3 wives which is fine if the story wasn't going in the direction of making him the ML who ends up with the MC. Just to be clear, if he wasn't the ML, this would be fine. The emperor marries those women and then the author wants to, all of a sudden shove romance in the mix and mess this up. I think one wife dies, another leaves and the other one is a traitor or something like that. The MC and ML sleep together when drunk and she gets pregnant (I think they were drunk if I remember correctly), MC up and leaves and then finally they reunite.
In thr manhua so far, MC and ML haven't slept together yet
An 8 is appropriate for this story's rating imo. The plot is really good, top tier in fact. The MC is mainly a badass, both in character and in capabilities. There's a reasonable consistency of the little self-worth she has, that plays a major role in the story.
Speaking of consistent, since the story's setting is in the middle ages, misogyny and bias against women is also a main theme. It's pretty well built into the story though, imo. It's somewhat realistic of what you'd expect in the mentioned setting.
How is this? 10 being the best and -0 being the worst.