
I love how the temple's conspiracy is being undone.
Like, I get so mad when a shoujo with good lore has the main conflict established and it's time for the characters to act, but for some reason they're stuck in a near endless purgetory of villains bullying the protagonists without them taking initiative.

Nah Kael is valid af here. Like I get him, he's very over whatever his "friends" did, wants to move on and all, but Hestia has her thorns stuck in place. She stubbornly insists to keep dragging someone down who she already kickflipped and fatalitied into a bottomless pit. I don't blame her for her crashout bc it's literally been the purpose of her life but like, listen to hubby. Not all men suck, just most of them.

It sure is easy to romanticize what the husband did, but I think that comes from a place where most women kinda expect and accept assholes, and are desperate for guys who openly show their affection.
Personally, MAYBE I'd find the husband appealing but only if he wasn't aiming to confine her through potent misery. He clearly never showed her proper consideration ever, she's his object of desire, a trophy whose well-being will be sacrificed just to possess it.

I'm hoping this'll be a turning point for MC's and the Empress' relationship. MC has been side-eyeing his mom this whole time without any proper confrontation... Or really any major moves to try and shift the tide in his favor. Either Eti will straight up collapse bc his mom fucked up his liver with her dumbass trait-hiding drugs or he'll reveal his true feelings of disgust. Anway, it better get ugly bc I'm starting to argee with most comments here, that this is coming out to be a whole nothing burger.

Ah yes, let's outright rebel against the single most powerful person in the country without a plan or even a solid backing. Fighting against someone even more powerful than the king himself with maybe a handful of people while she's got a majority of the ruling class under her thumb.
That should go wonderfully.

Exactly, I want the drama. Make it messy, make everyone cry. Make Eti go actually rogue, and perhaps the Empress will really be faced with the facts, that she made her own child miserable because of petty greed. I want to see whether she'd be capable of actually caring once inevitably faced with the consequences of her own actions.
I came back to this after months, ofc checked out the most recent chapter asap, and ML being a baby is like the reddest flag and lowkey tells me this one is for the streets-