
not every female lead needs to be a strong female lead. she went through a mentally and physically abusive childhood and adulthood so of course she has speech and anxiety problems. plus all the fl who turned strong are most likey reincarnated so its not even the person abused who turned strong
in reality she to heal herself at her own pace and she literally just got out that house
and i promise the ml isnt a douche so just give it a chance

her friend is so annoying her words made it seem like she regretted having sex with him so of course he's not gonna be normal with her and her assumptions just made it worse but their back together ig so thats cool

I think it's normal that she just woke up to a shocking news that they just did the deed, so her words didnt come out right. It was true that she forgot but didnt specify if she actually wanted to forget or not. It could be solved quickly since she's a rather forward person, but the misunderstanding got worse because of the blind date that Wen Chen had to go. In this case it is true that Leng Yan, the ML is responsible for making his secretary go for the date in his place when he could've just cancelled it.

spoiler because yall are irritating
paulina becomes a concubine because she doesnt want to be empress not because lucius wants her there or thats where she belongs. she could literally be empress but she doesn't want that responsibility but she still wants to be with the emperor so they settled with her being a concubine. yall make the emperor seem like he is a piece of shit when he would literally give up being emperor if paul asked him to and donau is a great person but she literally sees him as a child (fight me on that) i mean she forgave him for his misogynistic past but he literally spat in her drink i personally wouldn't see someone who spat in my drink as a love interest would you? but anyways this is a great story so stop trying to read into everything and just enjoy

not yall hating on the emperor.. i like donau but
the emperor is best boi as well he definitely wouldn't have meddled in donaus engagement it was all the parents, he's just a little bummed that paulina was proposed to and rightfully so he cant even joke like that with her because of his status LET HIM BROOD OK
glad they didn't whitewash him