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CW: many words! Sorry!! <3
*I suggest you read this if you think this is the typical "fl stays with cheating ml" type of story*
All these ppl talkin about how he has a "sudden interest" or how he's "keeping his side chick with him while pursuing the fl", don't understand the characters or the type of world they're living in. First off, aisha or wtv her name is, she's not his lover currently. She was invited to be a consort because in the original story, she's a "saintess" sent from another world and the emperor found her interesting. Additionally, a consort isn't always a lover or mistress, it's the companion or spouse of a monarch. In this story, its common for the reigning monarch to invite consorts so that they can help the empress with her duties. He never laid a hand on aisha because in that point in the story, he hadn't developed anything for her besides curiosity. Secondly, the emperor was never portrayed as a good or redeeming person, he killed his family to rise to the thrown and only invited aisha to live with him because he saw how selfish and fake she was and thought she'd be fun to have around. This isn't one of those stories where the ml does a complete 180 randomly just for the lolsies, he's still the same person he was in the original, it's the FL's actions that attract him to her. His interest in her may seem sudden but the romantic interest wasn't. At first he was intrigued by her sudden change in personality, going from desperate and timid to firm and demanding to leave him, but ofc he couldn't let her go because her duties as empress would be left empty. Anyway he does eventually fall in love with her, like how he was supposed to with aisha, it just so happens that aisha bored him after he found someone he enjoyed having around more. He's still not a good buy but the point was never for him to change. Btw everything ive said is in the story so im not just makin stuff up! Hope this helped!!