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Might be a stretch, buuuuuut. Maybe bc she was trapped in this power based relationship where she felt that whenever he gets bored of her he might just kill her and she didn't want to live in constant fear?
Honestly? I would have stayed and kept him enamoured, but I'm fucked up in the head so I don't count.
She had, and still has, the very real fear that he would just kill her
In the original story that she read, the Emperor killed his wife (whose body she lives in now) to be able to marry the saintess
He IS crazy, after all
im so sorry, i might just be an unsympathetic brainrot reader, but for real, why did she even run in the first place? like, she didnt even want to and now shes freaking out bc she failed, like, girl why