
this was Amazing and in these few chapters i've really gotten attached to each character, i loved this so much. someday hopefully i'll be able to buy the last chapter and see them fulfill their dreams T__T too short, really. this has easily become one of my favorites, incredibly worth the read! please read it!

the previous queen deserved a horrible death, she makes me feel sick. i feel like im gonna throw up just thinking about it, cant begin to imagine how the emperor feels, please be patient with him

Well from what we saw, we could tell it was perhaps r@pe. Since he seemed scared of the seductive glance of the stepmom and Blanche's biological mom. And it showed Blanche's mom saying something between the lines of "even if you don't like it you'll have to do it" and we were seeing it from the perspective of the dad, making the mom seem scarier (meaning he is scared) also when stepmom tried talking about the reason why he distanced himself from blanche and if it had to do something with Blanche's biological mother, he seemed pretty scared and had a black background around him.

Yes
Blanche's mom is obsessed to be a queen so she needs an heir after marriage, ML's mother (the previous queen) also forced his son to quickly have an heir because someone else can take the throne, ML was a sick child and only 14/15 years old, both his mother and his wife are afraid ML died before having an heir, so the rape happened
I WANT MORE OF THE SECOND COUPLE