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Navier had to be either a saint or dumb to still care for rashta when her very own husband brought a girl home and cared for her. Which wife would have a heart like that. I know I won't. Still, she did her best. And for rashta I would say " Your emotions are justified but your actions are not". She could control herself if she wanted to but she let greed and jealousy overcome her. (ŏ﹏ŏ)

Let me ask this, as someone who watched Queen Charlotte & Bridgerton. What if, they decided to make this a movie? Will it go over well, that a QUEEN who had power to stop slavery, didn't? In the , OUR OWN PRESIDENT, Thomas Jefferson was 40 when he took a 14yo SLAVE girl & had 6 kids with her & his WIFE looked the other way & was said punish her. Was Mrs. Jefferson the victim here? Or a 14YO SLAVE? As someone whose seen the veil of romantisizing our forefather fall, I know this is incredibly wrong & he wasn't a hero & Sally Hemmings (that was her name) wasn't a SEDUCTRESS & despite Jefferson taking her to Europe as his wife (yeah he did that) he broke his promise to her & did not free his OWN KIDS from slavery. Was she conniving on Jefferson for her children's freedom? If I gave you the bases & said, A powerful man took a slave as his mistress while his wife looked the other way, we'd be looney to root for the wife. We'd be mad at her for not cutting off his balls! Navy isn't some dumb southern Belle wife nor powerless. But nah... she was like oh well... guess I'll low-key ignore this & act catty to this girl who wants to bey friend cause of all the trauma she'd been thru and not know better.
Sorry but how are we not supposed to feel like we're not being brain-washed to accept a slave based class system & root for a Queen that only decided to change the establishment when it directly effected JUST HER???? HUH????

I'm glad that you are saying this and thinking, yeah this is a very wrong system and I'm not going to blame the woman who's trying to escape slavery. I heard that in North Korea that if one person does something wrong, the entire family is punished. Why is there a system in place in this country where a baby is punished for her parents crimes? Okay I understand if the parents go to prison and maybe in this archaic crazy world, they would be enslaved but why the children? Why hurt a baby and put their in Chains and do they not realize what happens to pretty little girls that are treated like property? Am I supposed to root for somebody that could have stopped these atrocities but decided to just shrug it off and run off. I'm so glad I'm not the only one. But the thing that bothers me the most is that when she shook the establishment to get the divorce, it shows that she was clever and knowledgeable and knew the rules and the laws and was able to play the political system like a stradivares violin. But she only did that for her divorce and not to end an inhumane system. The most powerful woman in the country, decides to take action only when it only concerned herself. Am I supposed to root for her?

I 100% agree. The one thing that made it hard for me to brush off the slavery part is that it gets brought up so much because it’s essentially a plot point to a point where it’s hard to ignore. People of the empire needed another reason to dislike rashta and only adding another layer of her trauma as if she wasn’t already doing something bad that would’ve had consequences even if she wasn’t a slave or not.

I wouldn’t have minded as much if she dealt with the consequences of her actions and they still kept her identity of being a slave a secret from the public so at least she could be judged fairly.

It was also weird that Naiver befriended the girl (I forgot her name) who used to abuse Rashta when she was her slave even allowing her to call her “sister” which is something she knew Rashta wanted to call her. Like that’s really f’ed up seeing someone you admire hanging out with your abuser, and they don’t deal with any consequences for how they treated you. Because from what I remembered, she was part of Naivers circle before the divorce.

Yeah, and I’m seeing a lot of comments saying that Naiver tried to help Rashta but it’s been a real long time since I’ve reread this but I can’t think of any time Naiver attempted to help Rashta besides “giving” her husband to her as if that was something . I feel like getting her out of slavery would’ve been more helpful. Even the emperor didn’t do anything to help except hide her documents about her background. Again I’m not really sure exactly why slavery isn’t something the literal emperor, someone who should have the highest power, to abolish it? The story never really goes that into why slavery is necessary, is it just pure prejudice, or is the economy going to collapse without it? Idk I can only guess.

I understand having pity for Rashta and having none towards Sovieshu. Voz this guy sovieshu had it all (except for his sperm) and managed to lose most of the things he had, what a laughable tragedy. This guy is in the highest position compared to Rashta who has no power. (P.S I pity the Rashta before she met Sovieshu)

Now that ypu say this, this manhwa now feels like some Royalty propaganda lmao. Anyways, I like how Navier is flawed. Anyways, well, she's matchy Henry's freak lmao. Remeber when he took the magicians' power as a political move lmao. And the fact that Navier is readry to keep her mouth shut. True royalty indeed.