Spoiler anyone?
<spoiler>There was no cheating. Basically current Emperor's bro named Lucas Wilhelm(?) woke up in Gaspar's body after someone cursed his soul to possess another body. Based on Leonora's estimates his soul has been there for at least 4 years (around the the time she was conceived). When he initially woke up in Gaspar's body, he saw a naked woman - Noel (Leonora's mom) immediately sensed something was off and attacked him asking him who he was. Leonora did the same thing when he came home and effectively rejected her flower bracelet gift, saying he wasn't her dad.
The reason why Leonora is known as an illegitimate child was because she inherited Lucas's mana while his soul possess Gaspar's body. He hasn't been able to unravel the curse that got his soul stuck there and he occasionally takes over Gaspar's body. All anyone knows about Lucas is that he's disappeared and emperor took over.
From my understanding, Gaspar has moments of clarity when he's back to himself and his usual loving father figure - though it's not clear if he's fully aware Lucas possessed his body. When Lucas tries to suck Leonora's mana to replenish his own, Gaspar wakes back up in his body and tells her to run. He then tries to take a sword and stab himself to protect her but Lucas is fighting with him to stop his hand from moving. MC then bites his arm to prevent him from attacking himself and Lucas took over again. Gaspar is later conscious in his body again and seems like it flips back and forth.</spoiler> from novelupdate
Spoiler anyone?
- The ML is the prince.
- Chloe (the girl that replaced noella as the FL aka the best friend) is the main antagonist of this story (Noella is the secondary antagonist)
- Chloe is really power hungry which is why she wants to get with the ML
- Chloe manipulates noella into doing a bunch of shit and noella just does it because she actually believes in their friendship
- Noelle remembers/realizes that she's in a novel and the plot of the novel so she teams up the fl (against chloe)
After Noella finds out that the FL got engaged, she spews out all this bullshit about them being too fake (speaking to the guy that she "stole" from the FL). This butler is either really stupid or hates the FL bc he gives out way too much info about other ppl tf. Noella is like asking him all these questions about Adele and Killian and the butler tells her about how she took him to her room and ignored all the stares they got. She was also asking about who he was and the butler told her he was the commander of the knights and she was so surprised (and jelly). She asked what family he was from but the butler couldn't answer (bc he didn't know) and then she started making up these assumptions in her head about how he's probably from a poor family which is why they don't know his family (little does she know he's part of the imperial family lol). Back to the lies she was spewing out...she's like we have to get married first to show we don't have bad intentions. In reality she wanted to get married first because you can't have two weddings back to back so then Adele would have to wait...but to become the heir, you need to be married. They go to ask the father and he's like how tf are you gonna ask me to speed up your marriage when you're jumping between my daughters and then Killian was there and he was i have the same request. I would like to speed up my marriage with Adele and the father ends up agreeing. Killian and the father went hunting together and the father really enjoyed his company so he does approve of their marriage. Also the dad thinks Adele is pregnant because they asked to speed up their marriage (that's really funny imo). The father threw them an engagement party and Kayden, being the most over-protective, cutest, bestest brother ever (i'm biased), threatens Killian not to harass his sister. Even after they got married, Adele still doesn't' know that Killian is the prince and the imperial family sent out a spy to investigate the situation...the spy being chloe, the main antagonist.
This is dragging for way to long.