Responses
She rewound time and rewrote her own memories
Empress set her up to die via the hunting competition. Hubby is being affectionate because he realized she is the girl he has been looking for so he lost his reason to fight the attraction and stopped being a tsun. The "OG FL" or whatever is the expresses puppet. They seem to want to bring Devan down through love. (My hypotheses is she pretended to be the little girl the ML was looking for).
I re-read this again and after she met the pope I kind don’t understand what’s going on anymore it’s like I get it but I don’t at the same time