I mean, I could foresee every plot twist by chapter 5 or so, it's just too cliché and constantly wants to have its cake and eat it too. It's anything but smartly written, but at least it could entertain a bit, minus a few setbacks that counteracted some of the few things I originally felt were done well compared to others. But now we are here. They now got divorced, but the emperor literally telling the dude to get a divorce and beat her to the punch just tool even that last bit apart completely. There's situations in which feelings simply don't matter, they are irrelevant, and big political coups are usually one of those. By roping their divorce into a plot planned by the emperor, all the things that came before and the act of the divorce itself feels meaningless now, like some unimportant thing that happened before. I wished authors would stop roping the original bad relationship into some other shit. I never liked it in other stories either. Because handing someone their own ass properly just fails to have meaning when their misbehaviour wasn't actually because of their stupidity or ignorance, but because it just didn't matter, since there was some big plan behind it that was bigger than just a partner being unfaithful. Judging him for being unfaithful feels like persecuting a serial killer and judging him for the things he steals from his victims as mementos.
I mean, I could foresee every plot twist by chapter 5 or so, it's just too cliché and constantly wants to have its cake and eat it too. It's anything but smartly written, but at least it could entertain a bit, minus a few setbacks that counteracted some of the few things I originally felt were done well compared to others.
But now we are here. They now got divorced, but the emperor literally telling the dude to get a divorce and beat her to the punch just tool even that last bit apart completely. There's situations in which feelings simply don't matter, they are irrelevant, and big political coups are usually one of those. By roping their divorce into a plot planned by the emperor, all the things that came before and the act of the divorce itself feels meaningless now, like some unimportant thing that happened before. I wished authors would stop roping the original bad relationship into some other shit. I never liked it in other stories either. Because handing someone their own ass properly just fails to have meaning when their misbehaviour wasn't actually because of their stupidity or ignorance, but because it just didn't matter, since there was some big plan behind it that was bigger than just a partner being unfaithful.
Judging him for being unfaithful feels like persecuting a serial killer and judging him for the things he steals from his victims as mementos.