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The bitch's poor son is basically the recipe for those stories where the kid is neglected by his parents, yearns for love, and it's basically how they grow jaded and end up setting the world on fire.
The emperor is definitely not great but my God is she an awful bitch. I don't even mind that she is a garbage towards ML, my issue is that she is such a disgusting unworthy mother. I really hope for a "tragic" ending for this story where she kicks the bucket. If I were the author, the last chapter would have her die miserably alone lost in a desert or something like that and at the same time, there is a scene of her son thriving with his chosen family.