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I’ve read this story when I was 19 yro, and I remember hating Rashta, everything she’s done always annoyed me. Now that I’m 24 (lol time flies by) I guess I’ve developed a different perspective after rereading the whole thing.
It’s an odd feeling seeing someone who was once my age end her life so tragically.
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I learned to not judge her so harshly now. It’s easy for all of us to judge her for the way she’s acted throughout the entire series. Stuff like “I would never do this or that” but that’s because we’re people who grew up with education. Rashta had none of that. She was slave that her pos father sold for a few extra cash, was treated like a punching bag by the family who bought her. Was psychologically and physically abused and traumatized into believing her newborn had died. She ranway from her abusers, but was now considered a runaway slave which is a crime (yet the slavery part is ok?)
If only Naiver had met her first. Because of Sovieshu got to her first, he enabled a lot of bad influences on Rashta.
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I get that a lot of us don’t condone adultery but everyone is forgetting that this is inspired on historical events. It wasn’t considered adultery for an emperor to have an emperess and concubines. That was the norm in their society. Rashta growing up without the social etiquette and assumed she would be welcomed. Navier was hostile towards her (for obvious reasons)
If anyone deserves the hate it’s fcking Sovieshu, he finds a broken girl who can’t even read or speak grammatically correct, takes her home and sleeps with her; all without even consulting with his wife. Let’s not forget that he didn’t even tell Naiver that one of them are infertile, would’ve saved so much time.