I can say that I am desperately hoping for a happy ending. I’m thinking yes there will be because it’s so sad rn there’s no way it’ll end a tragedy...

Her daughter accidentally took the MC’s pain / sleep medication - bc after MC miscarried, she had to have her uterus removed to survive (as per husbands wish) and the removal left her with pain so crippling she takes insane levels of medication to mitigate. Daughter died. She lost her mind. Emperor, who is MC brother, hates her and ordered her death saying she poisoned her child to death. She survived because her husband gave up his whole life and took the blame of their daughter dying in order for his wife to live. She died via su*cide.

Probably the villain of the story. He hates her because her mother took his father (the emperor) love from his mother. This is also not really true because MC mother was actually the fiancée of the emperors older brother. Emperor older brother died - suspecting plot bc everything in this story is plot and death and secret mu*der - and emperor took his wife. This led the MC’s brothers mom to fall out of favour. MC brother never forgave MC for this even though clearly their parents fault.

UNDOUBTEDLY a shitty father to all his kids. He loved MC most actually I’m pretty sure after her mom committed treason (actual crimes have not been explained yet) he never forgave her mom for some reason. Killed MC’s mom that he loved so much, MC’s mom’s entire family. As result, MC fell from favour. Because of mom being a traitor, he never spoke word to her basically was very cruel and mean to her face. This led to a lot of inferiority and probably the first and root of all of her personality issues.

But actually he loved her the most I’m pretty sure. He had another illegitimate child with a maid, a girl, who looks like a copy (bad) of MC. Treats this new daughter the same spoiling and love and everything that MC used to have. Therefore MC super jealous. BUT ACTUALLY he accidentally super sleepy called this illegitimate child MC’s name, which made the kid realise that she’s just being taken as MC’s replacement.

sad. This illegitimate child became known to be the most favoured child of emperor... but she secretly knows... she’s actually MC copy for the emperor... lord I cried so hard.

lowkey I hated MC asf in first like 5 chapters. Just a bit*h to her husband who’s trying to save her but actually... 😭😭😭 after reading the flashbacks slowly over time I totally get it. MC behaviour 100% justified. Everything that was meant to be hers was taken and ruined. She has every reason to be like this. Honestly I wouldn’t have lasted as long as she had. But yeah she’s definitely caustic asf in her old life but she needed to be because no one is on her side. EXCELT THE DUKE AND SHE DIDNT EVEN KNOW.

she’s super sad and calm in this new life. I get it.

She thought she manipulated him into marriage so she could re enter politics sort of and take revenge against her brother for how they all treated her. But actually... the duke fell in love ages ago... classics I also doubted if the duke actually loves her but I can 100% say yes. He just never understood it himself - well with a wife like this - and both of their upbringings were just the right amount of tragic that the two don’t feel secure to love. I’m still learning via flashbacks what exactly went wrong during marriage to make them not feel confident telling each other they loved each other.

MC also resented husband in past life because he never seemed to love her only her child. I think vice versa.

everyone literally also hates her for her mothers identity so she was always surrounded by talk that her husband was too good for him. So she always felt too guilty and undeserving for ‘dragging him down’...

thank god. Yes. He always has. Oh my god I was so scared. But yes

this I actually don’t know. I think she almost did but then again, something happened idk yet, so she never opened her heart fully and admitted it. She loved her child af tho.

f*cking everything. I can’t even type it out. She thinks it’s because she made wrong choices but imo a lot of it was set in stone and she was super powerless. I don’t blame her for her choices lowkey. Like

1) not her fault her mother traitor or whatever and she lost fathers love and therefore all her prestige and messed up her upbringing

2) not her fault she didn’t receive anything via fathers will - spoiler it was tampered lol via brother ofc he’s evil - forcing her out the capital and resorting to clinging to duke

3) not her fault she felt super inferior compared to duke because everyone saying that

4) not her fault She jealous of her siblings and acted crazy

5) not her fault her kid died

like idk dude it’s super depressing

mom dad sister died via engineered carriage accident by emperor. Because emperor thought his wife was having affair with ML dads wtf? Don’t get why but emperor super paranoid apparently.

hopefully ML but I sense a lot of pain... apparently in past life, this never came to light via various circumstances, but emperor father on deathbed tried to make arrangements for her to marry foreign prince and keep her safe. Soooo that’s thrown into mix bc its been brought to life in this second life.

they both remember their past life. No they don’t tell each other. No they don’t know each other remembers. Yes they carry insane guilt. Yes this big hindering the story. Yes contributing to tragedy bc MC doesn’t want ML to get dragged by her. Girl he wants to be dragged by you </3