My Mistake

15*** and the Emperor is not pursing the saintess. It is obvious that he is only interested in Nina. Also, the romance mainly starts when she is 20, in addition, she is 35 years old mentally. Or we can say that she is 20 years old mentally instead since she didn’t grow up as Nina Cage but transmigrated into her body.

Furthermore, the age gap is quite short.
Only 5 years, with him being 20 and her being 15 currently.

To add even more onto that, in medieval times, young girls would get married at the ages of 12/13. They were only considers a child up until the age of 12, probably because back then the life expectancy wasn’t very high. But I doubt that the life expectancy thing is applied here because of the magic.

I think you're missing the point of my comment...them being together is not the problem. The problem was this story could have done something completely different that is sweet and wholesome like an orphan finding parental figures in the Emperor and Saintess but instead they go the normal route of girl get transported and ends up with the Emperor. And no, I wouldn't think the Emperor was after her especially since he ends up not only marrying but having a kid with the Saintess in the original novel. And honestly, mental age has nothing do with me. Ever heard of, read or watched Cardcaptor Sakura? Cause there's a 10 year old boy in there who's in a romantic relationship with someone over 20 but he is mentally over 100 years old. A mature child is still a child no matter how you look at it. Look, I'm not hating on the ship just kind of disappointed that it didn't go the way I thought it would. A 5 year old age gap isn't that big of deal and its not why I don't ship them (at least not as of now) but them becoming a family would have just been really cute and less...generic

The original novel is not applicable or relevant to what is happening in the story now though. Perhaps my point in her mental age is irrelevant after all. But it would have been even weirder for them to have become her parental figures (I’m talking about by blood) because that is a 5 year age gap... A 5 year age gap between a parent and their child??? Yeah, that’s far more disturbing. It’s better that it went down the lover route. I’m especially concerned for those who thought that they were related by blood and were wishing that they were. That would be so very horrifying if they actually were... I cringe to the thought. It would be strange even if they weren’t blood related and quite odd (?) for the king to take up the role of a parent when he is at the young age of 20. But I get your point of wishing it wasn’t “generic”, I guess.

Oh wait that makes it sound like I’m shunning people for having children at the age of 20. That’s not what I was trying to get across.

Ignore the “it would be strange for the king to take up the role of a parent at the young age of 20” part. I’m just saying that a 5 year age gap between a child and a parent is disturbing.

I got what you meant but I don't think its weird. There are many stories about young people fostering teenagers until they're 18 or siblings becoming the legal guardian of their younger siblings because of parent or familial issues. I don't think a child who has never known their parents are gonna be picky on age when it comes to someone they love and respect. And it wouldn't be offical. Like she's not gonna be the princess and everyone knows about it but the people who are close to them can see they think of each other not as friends but family. I mean she's already getting special treatment and they are already treating her like a child. The only difference would be, she'd probably have a different task to keep her safe or they wpuld personally visit when she's sick or even she can talk casually around them and they wouldn't care. And like everyone lowkey knows that if someone messes with her they are in soooo much trouble. Idk, I think it would have been cute