moody_bish's manga / #strong female lead(15)

It's unexpectedly complete and from the epilogue, everything falls into place. It's not so lovey-dovey, but you see the progress somehow. and the female lead is very interesting while the male lead is slowly built up. it kinda left out details avout the side characters tho,sadly they're 2D or like flat characters. it's more abt the female lead's quirks and the male lead's victory. it doesnt go on about the first details that i thought would be important,basically it just went through the general plot as if giving up on the world building and other schemes. (i guess, it's to shorten it in a less rush-like pace)

the stars are for the empress, the lack of it is because of how annoying the emperor is as well as the slow and almost dilly dallying progress. it's 73 chaps yet almost nothing significant happens besides befriending the fave concubine, escaping death for the nth time w/o progress from the investigation, garnering the emperor's interest (emphasis on cringy blushing and delulus despite having done nothing so helpful for her) and still leaving a lot of gaps as to why she's being targeted or hated by emperor (with this pace, it's going to take 200 chaps to know at least 80% of what's going on)

That was the most impressionable chapter 1 ever. The best villainess trope. The best og and new mc tandem. Oh my god, thank you so much for this. Why isnt it featured?!ahhhhh