I read the mtl after the divorce. I'll list the things that I understood from the raws.

*The emperor was shocked after he finds out that the former empress was going tp remarry. Not sure why but he's not very fond of the idea that the navi will remarry heinely.

*The emperor ordered to find a law, etiquette, whatever it is that can stop the former empress from remarrying but the only way is to cancel the divorce.

*Of course tr*shta was so very happy that she finally became the empress even though the emperor didnt marry her yet.

*the elgy guy helps (i think) kind heinely and navi to escape since the emperor was so against their marriage. And from what I read he was planning on divorcing her and then marrying her again because of his child. I dont know what kind of lies tr*shta told the dumb emperor but he seems to believe that navi is infertile. Or maybe because he thinks they wont have children. Anyways he wants the b*tch's baby to be his heir or something.

*When the emperor hears that fled he was like "find her. Search for her!" And went crazy.

It's actually interesting how there are some moments where she doesn't really express any ill-intent towards Navier. There are times when she sincerely expresses her admiration for Navier. She just wants to secure her place in Sovieshu's side.

I did not like how the children had to die to make the ex-husband suffer. What did they even do to deserve such death besides being born? They could barely even talk or walk and they get killed off...

I don't think that failed marriage was S's fault alone. Both of them certainly had some affections before they got married. S also didn't want others to know about N who accidentally ate something that could make her infertile because he's afraid that she couldn't become an empress because of that. S's first fault was he didn't tell N about it so it would led to one of their biggest conflict in the future.

Another reason for their failed marriage was they're both too proud to lower themselves for the others. S wanted N to see him but he also didn't try to act as a loving husband and chose to cheat on her in order to crush her pride while N also didn't try to be a loving wife and was adamant to become a perfect empress, forgetting that aside from being an empress, she was also simply a wife.

It's just a small lack of communication but it led to to a bigger disaster in the future. Kinda make you wondering, "What if..." because I know they initially loved each other.

Aside from that, I still think that S was bad but I also agreed with other reviewer that making him losing his child was a bit cruel. Well, she's technically wasn't his biological child (or was she since there were some conspiracy theories out there regarding her true parent) but he raised her by himself so of course he held some affections towards her. He also didn't think of disposing her even after he knew that she wasn't his child but the author just had to make him think that he lost her and made him suffer the agony. Instead of thinking that he deserved it, I rather think that he's quite pitiful. I mean, losing the love of his life and seeing her happy with other man was already painful enough for him and he already repented for his mistakes so at least just give him a chance to have a child of his own.

losing his baby, thinking that the woman he loved died and after that the knights gave him the blood covered clothes of his dead baby! Wtf that is just cruel, his original mistake was to have shamefully divorced his wife. So I dont think proportion were respected

we cannot even compare henry and him because henry was created for navier, he is barely human.

sovieshu makes human mistakes, regret them.

Sovieshu killed himself, I was bawling

I have conflicting feelings about her ending. The compassionate side of me thinks she's just a victim of her circumstances, and she is. But also she has gotten too far in her idiotic ambition. So I cant decide whether or not Im happy about her fate, but also I don't exactly find it justifiable how her ending was with her dying, while Sovieshu got away with it. I always put more weight in putting accountability on those who were raised in privileged backgrounds, and not that I condone Rashta's actions, but everything that happened to her is really just pitiful. So I can't tell what the author wanted to relay as a message... or at the end of it all is it just for drama's sake?

I'm glad he found his somehow happy ending, but it felt like a convenient way for the author to just pair them up with new characters. But there's no depth or anything. So I also don't find his character's arc satisfying.