Endured the pain at the beginning to get to the cute relationship.. little did I know they...

HUH? THIS HAS SA. I dropped at ch15

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Yeah but not the main couple. the brother (red hair emperor) is being SAed by his wife who helped him get the throne and was also SAed and sexually coerced by ML’s mom when he might have been underage

Oh my god

I think he wasn’t actually SAed by the ML’s mom. He loves her but she was using him as a substitute for the emperor so he never admitted that he does love her. The empress even referred to the ML as the son of his’ first love

Idk why I totally missed that part at the end
What confuses me is ML’s reaction to seeing them kissing? It’s one thing that she’s just using him, but ML gets weirded out and calls it basically harassment.. so I figured some other factor was in the works like him being underage
Also when the whole “if I resist what changes” conversation happened, it makes me think that he didn’t really want to (allegedly) have sex w her and felt like he was forced to bc he wants her to feel better (which is SA in my book)

Jegra is not reading it right. That's just the Empress's understanding, which is not correct. It was going around that Genas and Enoch's mother were lovers, that's definitely why the empress thinks she was Genas's first love. Him treating Enoch how he does reinforces her misunderstanding. In reality we know that he did not love her, Enoch asked Genas directly and he said no. He said he went along with it because there's no point in resisting since nothing will change. This is because she is mentally ill and drunk all the time, there is no "sober Leticia". She will just keep coming. And she just kept getting worse till she couldn't even tell Genas and his father apart anymore. We know he felt sorry for her and for Enoch and that she asked him to watch over Enoch. That is the real bond between them, it's not what the empress thinks. Genas and Enoch both bonded over their mistreatment from her. Genas saw Enoch wanted his mother and tried to bring her to him and Enoch found out that Genas was being sexually abused by his mother.

This is why I think there may eventually be a "redemption" for the empress when she learns the truth. It may help her stop being psychotic. But we'll see. Either way, she's done unforgivable things to Genas, but I'm thinking maybe he knows she is obsessed with him and understands why she acts the way she does. We'll see.