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Official Trans: https://bato.to/series/75522 RAW https://newtoki87.com/webtoon/286555?toon=%EC%9D%BC%EB%B0%98%EC%9B%B9%ED%88%B0 https://wuxiaworld.site/novel/lady-to-queen-webnovel/ chapter 101 is when Patrizia enters the room to find Lucio having a psychological attack The last empress was Lucios stepmother she was Infertile and couldn't have kids so if I'm remembering correctly his mother was a palace maid and the emperor had a child with her the empress adopted him since he was the only heir to the emperor but the empress was really jealous of his mother and abused Lucio till the point where he had panic attacks just thinking about her so one dayshe called him to her room and had covered his birth mother up witha whits sheet like she was dead but she wasnt yet but lucio didnt know this was his mother do the empress told him I'll stop the abuse if you kill the person laying there she handed him a knife and told him to stab her he refused and she started beating him so to get her to stop he just started going crazy stabbing the person after they saw the blood dripping the empress told him that he had killed his birth mother and now till this day he has PTSD a d that's why he has these episodes Tricia realizes that hes not the same Lucio from the past and she starts fo fall for him and Lucio has major character development and starts to see that what he is doing to Patricia is wrong and that hes doing exactly what his father did to the late empress so he starts to try to change for her and make it up to her he actually becomes a decent husband at the end and they fall in love and all that mushy stuff but he does break it off with Rosemond after she tells him she's using him and calls him a murder for what happened to his birth mother so Rosemund tried fo kill Tricia again and it failed but they ffg didn't have sufficient evidence and they fabricated some of the evidence and lucio knew this but he didn't give af any more and just let her die And nilla marries that blond guy who carriage hit hers Also Nilla and Rosemond were also reincarnated Sorry this I'd everywhere but it's a really really brief summary of the end I'll start by the TL,DR: I don't like the emperor AT ALL. Hear me out here: In a story with a very strong MC and a very strong Villain, his narrative reduced him to nothing more than a pawn in a game that is theirs. Patrizia and Rosamund pushed this story forward. When you have a MC and a villainess like Patrizia and Rosamund, the ML gotta measure up to that. But he didn't, and he didn't prove himself worthy of being the ML standing by Patrizia's side. . Now, for the long explanation. First, the bad: The very plot of the story required a King that hated the MC bc he loved his Mistress. But that could very easily make people hate him, so the author had to give us a reason for him to be the way he is, one that would explain and excuse his behavior. So she chose trauma. That's a very valid reasons to be the way he is indeed - he was very abused by his mother and it was actually well portrayed how Rosamund took advantage of his traumas and emotional vulnerability to make him emotionally dependant on her. But, as the story progresses, by never being held accountable for his actions because of his trauma, he also lost his autonomy in the story: everything he does is always because of someone else. He fell into the role of just annother pawn in the bigger game, just like the side characters who are allies to either Patrizia or Rosamund. Patrizia and Rosamund are the real players here, and his narrative, created to give him ML relevance, just doesn't fit in organically with the rest of the plot, it's actually cringey how weak his narrative is when compared to Rosamund and Patrizia's. Thus, the novel ended before he could actually make up to Patrizia - tho he was very repentant and well on his way to being a good husband by then. Still, I wish we had seen more, for I am not sure if he just changed the subject of his emotional dependency from Rosamund to Patrizia. . Now, for the good: Rosamund, what a villain! Omg, we all hate Rosamund. I think she's one of the greatest villains because we don't pity or side with her, we loathe her. And her actions are not hollow, she's got a complicated background as well. Get ready: she's gonna do worse. Some sick shit is gonna be revealed and we're gonna hate her even more. But fear not: Our MC won't take it lying down. She's gonna do her worst as well. Patrizia commands the whole fucking story. She is absolutely worthy of being the MC, and of being the fucking ruling queen. Emperor can step down from his duties, bye bye. I think what I absolutely LOVE about her narrative is how she achieves everything by herself. She doesn't get her happy ending by luck or any other plot device, she works for it. She's smart and she's fierce, she gathers allies and she's not above doing some really shady things against Rosamund. Once she gets the upper hand against the villain, Rosamund will be reduced to a pathetic little girl struggling to survive. And failing hard. I was really happy with how Patrizia dealt with Rosamund. She stepped up and plotted heavily to get the proof she needed to get that piece of shit executed. Best fucking revenge scene ever. Also, loved how Rosamund's allies got the chop well. Fucking assholes. As for Petrolina, loved her ending, with a loving husband of her own.

Ch.19 SPOILERS LN https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/two-empires-a-tale-of-one-slave-%EB%91%90-%EA%B0%9C%EC%9D%98-%EC%A0%9C%EA%B5%AD-%EC%A0%9C%EA%B5%AD%EC%9D%98-%EB%85%B8%EC%98%88.157304/

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