
i just...don't like her relationship with daniel. it seems like one of those classic "evil guy falls in love with gentle girl because of her smile" when there is no like actual connection or depth in their relationship. i love her and i think she's a good mc but lately the chapters just seem to be everyone falling in love w her when she isn't even doing anything.
i want more interactions between her and the og princess libertia. i want to see more of the memories she's hidden. i don't know if this makes sense but it seems like the romance is taking everything over and making the whole manhwa kinda dull.

the duke is handsome and everything but like...it seems like too little too late. juvel needed him when she was growing up, but now the dude has the audacity to show he cares about her? homie you showing your love now doesn't get rid of the years you neglected. and i understand he did it to keep the emperor from harming her but like...why didn't you try like you're doing now?
...maybe i'm projecting my daddy issues on juvel...i need my therapist...

He always cared for her but she somehow misunderstood. Because the tone of his voice might be too harsh for a lady to take it as ‘care’ .
He never neglected her. He was busy making money/future for his daughter.... but it was not worth it.
Because her one and only daughter misunderstood and afraid of him.

but he did neglect her. she said that she never saw him around and that he didn't even come to her debutante ball. and every time she went looking for him he told her to leave. that's literally neglect. also like fuck the money/future? who cares about that when you could spend your time with your daughter?
but fr tho it was never about the money--it was all about protecting her from the emperor but it's still too little too late. she's just as possible to be killed now than when she was a kid. it's better to show affection to your daughter when she needs it than when she's an independent adult.

holy shit roxanna is so fucking cool
also i don't think her relationship with dion has any sexual/romantic undertones. i think it's more of dion never having someone to love him like roxanna loved her brother. instead of her transferring those familial feelings of affection to him when her brother died, she hates him which is why he pays so much attention to her.
i think he wants her to love him like she loved her brother. he doesn't have anyone (who understands him as well as she does) in their family. i think it's a "we are fucked up in the same way because of our family and we have been told family is everything so why do you despise me? you are the only person who understands me. and i am the only person who understands you."
this is a really long comment but i just wanted to say that i don't there are any incestuous undertones. just a dude who wants to be bffs w his sister who hates him.

100%. like roxana and her brother had like a "pure love" for each other. and by that i mean it was a relationship where the affection was 100% reciprocated and they had each other's backs no matter what. roxana had someone who actively loved her and tried to protect her. dion never had that. the agrich family has literally been described as a "survival of the fittest" and in a situation like that it's rare to have someone by your side like her brother was with her. dion probably wanted that and STILL wants that which is why he's willing to follow roxana's orders.

No, it's still sexual?
She says, "If what you wanted from me was to simply relieve your sexual desire." Fontaine, just wants sex but Dion wants "love". But it is incestuous all the way around. Chapter 27 was definitely sexual in context between Dion and Roxanna.
If you can't tell then you just aren't reading close enough. I mean, why did you think they were hugging?

i always figured the close contact was a way to symbolize how roxana knows dion wants her to be as close to him as she was with her brother but isn't. i mean in her dreams she's also pretty affectionate with her brother like putting their foreheads together.
i still don't think their relationship is sexual or romantic at all
their relationship is a breath of fresh air compared to these other webtoons!!! there's consent!!! communication!!! love!!! i'm going to cry rn i love them