
The first timeline made her seem like such an asshole but knowing more about her, man i feel bad for her and her actions make sooo much sense. Also the art, it just keeps getting amazing, it's insane, each panel feels like it was made to be an individual art.

It seems more likely that she was just a woman desperately wanting to get rid of shuri bc she realized in the first timeline that Jeremy was in love with shuri. She didn't want to live the same life as her parents so she wanted shuri away from her. It even shows that on the day of the wedding she was shocked and disturbed by shuri's death and possibly felt guilty for kicking her out. After all isn't it logical you don't want another woman to steal your fiancee even if it's a political marriage, but doesn't mean I'll wish death upon her if she's a good woman who has no knowledge of the weird romance her stepson has for her.

The novel had this part with Kiyoung manipulating himself done so well, that part had me, as the reader, wonder if it was really Jin that was the masked trash.
Also the part with the elf princess feeling Kiyoung inner darkness also had additional parts with her feeling others souls and Hyungsungs being very kind and clear one, it was a good build up with her straight up barfing on his turn lol.

Such a wonderful but sad work, the author is such a strong person and such a wonderful presence. May her soul rest in peace, she will always remain as a wonderful soul She reminds me so much of Nagata Kabi, both such positive presence even with their own heartbreaking challenges, i love them both sm.
The ones who love the work should totally read the novel, seems like the story gets really interesting later too and their friendship too gets pretty good.
And a personal rec, you should totally check out an artist 'pendwelling' on ínsta, they make pretty good posts about this work, analysing the novels and such