
so basically the heun was getting sexually abused/spied on by his brother, the emperor found out and misinterpreted the situation as him sleeping around with his brother, the emperor is upset bc 1) hes in love with heun and heun has previously rejected him 2) hes jealous and possesive; so as a result the emperor has a “trial” and accuses heun of being a spy or in a affair with his brother; heun insists that's not the case, emperor doesnt believe him bc hes blinded by jealously (though he was previously a very rational person when they met); results in emperor using this trial as an excuse to forcibly keep heun by his side as his lover (idk how the logistics of this)
heun: gets reincarnated bc maybe regret for no telling truth or the regret feeling of not being trusted or believed?

You got most things right. The emperor of the past didn't know about the brother molesting Heun secretly. Heun never told anyone about it, either. The spies planted by the brother were indeed real spies, but they were there to monitor Heun & the emperor, not for treason/rebellion. The emperor was probably in rage believing that Heun is the one responsible for the spies & he might be plotting treason, or using the spies to exchange love letters & set up a tryst at his own palace. Mind you, Heun is a man from an enemy clan that the emperor decided to trust & like. Any man's pride would've been wounded by that thought, let alone an emperor, who has an inflated ego to start with. So it'd make sense if his rational mind just left him completely at this point. And about the karmic reincarnation, it's something that the emperor purposefully did. Heun wants eternal rest. The emperor is the one filled with regrets, & he intentionally killed all those people in the past life, so he & Heun could be reborn, & get a second chance. This karmic thing will be something that the emperor regrets in the current lifetime, as he can see the impact it has on Heun.

the author is lowkey funny af, they really showed the princess saying raymond has given up being a whore and is respecting her virginity just for the next panel to be him fucking ian ray is just wrong in every way

I dont like the princess she's giving the sus vibes and it kinda comfirm my suspicious when she said all that to Kaya about painting. Thats a privilege bitch talk i hate haaaas
I laugh so hard when the author show ray fucking ian like his life depend on it juxtaposition with the "ray change his way coz he's in love with the princess"
That was cruel and hilarious to me

I knew I wasn’t crazy when I said this man was possessive a few chapters back, now he’s being a straight up creep, “I want to to absorb it” okay, ima head out

That's not creepy at all for me it's the sweet kind of possessiveness. People here are just being over sensitive, the uke doesn't even feel creepy about the seme AS A MATTER OF FACT he is quite happy compare to his past relationship. Which one would you prepare for as his end game the past one who doesn't even love him or his present who loves him so much? The thing is people only finds the wrong in each characters not the good things which they had done. They always find faults in the characters. There's no such thing as a perfect person and stop complaining and just enjoy reading this.
I need ian to move on to someone else PLEASE baby i know you see he aint treatin you right, please open your eyes - as for raymond, throw the whole man in the trash; i was thinking of forgiving him for the princess shit bc i thought he was just using her and would go back to ian after he finished his revenge but not hes dragging nick and the rebellion into his plan???? oh no honey, this man has lost any bit of respect from me, lease fall off a cliff