
People who are making excuses should STOP like come on shes only 17 and hes a whole ass 29 year old man so what if she's "mature for her age" it's the same excuse grown man make after harassing a minor, I read the same thing as you all and I know that the story is fluffy with no harrassment involved in it but as a grown adult he should have known better.
I'm disappointed in this manga author could have easily made her an adult and this could have been one of my favorite manga but nooo let's make her a minor I was praying for him to be 23 at max (though it still doesn't make it okay) but I know let's make him 29 like why?! I'm not against age gaps 12 year wouldn't have bothered me if she was at least 20 but 17 MARRYING a 29 year old is NOT okay.

It is pretty funny how he continously came to his rescue the second they were about to put it in lol
I feel like comic lost its quality after chapter 3-4 it became very stereotypical like how aggressive the blue haired one was and how naive and weak the brown haired one was also the jealous ex and whole kidnapping thing was so unnecessary I think side couple was more interesting.
The reason why he let's Diana poiter (or whatever) get away with everything is because he has mommy issues and feels pity towards her mother who suffered in the hands of the previous empress BUT the target for his Oedipus complex was not his biological mother for whom he only feels pity but the empress who he thought was his birth mother and didn't understand as a child why he could never get her approval and affection which got twisted as time went by. after discovering his true birth mother and understanding empress's contempt towards him and his mother his love/hate relationship with her grew even more twisted and the reasoning for his hatred (more like an excuse in his head) became her bullying his "real" mother but in reality it's that he could never get empress's approval.
After Diana's appearance he felt pity for his mother not only because the things she endured but that he never truly loved her like the empress and tried to Chanel that guilt in to his relationship with his mothers copy paste clone but we can clearly see that he has no actual romantic affection towards her.
After MC appears she started reminding him of the empress, he hated her guts and wanted to subdue her at all cost which we can clearly see in chapter 25 where he admits it, in other example when MC goes to his room for consummation of their marriage he instead humiliates her and gets immense enjoyment out of it because this way he got her attention. Also gets jealous of her aid and so on and on there are lot of example of his obsession with the empress and later on MC.
So my (obvious) prediction of what's going to happen is he gets more obsessed gets tired of Diana and mistakes his desire to fuck his mom (again) for love at which point our dear MC gets tired of his shit and chooses the aid (thank god) divorces him or something and hopefully lives happily ever after, but for me personally I would love it if she usurped her brother and took the throne for herself.
Sorry for my limited vocabulary, English is not my first language and I'm terrible at spelling thank you for patiently reading my rambling