If anyone's interested, Vellian is a real piece of sht in the novel. He would constantly plot against FL behind both FL and ML's back bc he didnt want the duke to come to power even while he knew that FL didnt like the duke too. They couldve worked together but he just kept degrading FL for no fcking reason.
Also Florin's also a piece of work. She's very different in the novel vs in the manhwa. She literally plots to kill the dog and then tries to set FL up and kept teaming up with fckass Vellian
That red haired dude really is a piece of sh**. When i read the novel, i personally think he have a thing for the emperor, because he really didn't like astelle. So i thought he likes the emperor.
Hate how they changed a lot of stuff from the novel. They even removed the Marchioness's (Florin's mother) from the entire thing when she's also one of the main villains and the manhwa also kept diminishing just how bad Vellian was to FL and how terrible Florin and her family were.