
Yall I couldn't take the suspense and went to look for spoilers. I only read the character spoilers not plot spoilers, so I don't too much in detail about these characters.
There are 3 princes:
1st prince - son of green hair and a duke, adopted into the imperial family
2nd prince(ML) - son of empress and her lover, pretending to be princess
3rd prince - son of green hair and emperor, legitimate heir, crown prince

I get the "princess" is a boy but what was that bit at the end? Does he have an older brother? Is he pretending to be both prince and princess?
Sounds like the second one with whatever male form means, but it doesn't make sense. Why would he need a female form if he's already a prince??

i think the mother wants them to both be alive?
I dunno if it's also in this story but mostly if two men are born in a high rank family, both should fight to be determine who the heir will be, and even if the brothers don't want to they have to, because it needs to be determined who is the winner either a smart move or a deadly move (basically strong or smart, hahaha lol du get what I'm explaining I'm not really good in it hahahha) but the Empress wants to protect them both so our little Male lead is gonnu be a pretending to be a girl. Leo (our fl ) would actually be friends with him, it's according to the spoilers i read haha
That's All! hope you get it hahaha

Regarding the "male form". In the kr ver, the "princess" addressed his brother as "hyung-nim" which is a way to address an older male if you're a boy. I think the transaction group wanted to emphasize on that...
I have not read the novel but given by the preview of the older brother in the latest chapter, i think the brother is the son of the emperor while the "princess" is not..... maybe that's why the empress wants to protect him

Bro HOW is this man the ML he's such an asshole
Asks her to come to him for help and then rejects her when she's clearly in so much distress that she's resorted to begging?? Reminded me of all those unhappy marriage couple scenes in media where the wife is always suffering and the husband doesn't care.
This is not love, there is no respect he just wants a claim to her.

It starts off great and you can really feel the pain the MC goes through. But then it takes on this odd tone that just doesn't fit the story being told.
It's like the author had good ideas, but didn't know how to execute them.
I kept reading in the hopes we will get what we had in the first few chaps but dropped it after (possible spoiler) that grandpa died for no reason other than forced angst
Pls what is this senseless way of writing characters
I just opened the new chapter and the reply to the emperor passing away being "damn it" with zero emotion(because his face always looks like that) is killing me help
Literally I went back cuz I thought i missed a chapter lmao. But it is what it is
To be fair, he seems like the type of character to reply that way. It’s not like he cared about him