This was one of my favorite works when it was released, but I don't know… I felt like the work was rushed? I looked up the novel and it's a really short story with 123 chapters in the main story and only 2 extras, and I wondered if the novel is also like that. I felt that too many characters were introduced without any purpose, and those who had some importance were not significantly addressed or developed as they should have been. Not to mention the couple themselves, we don't feel the love, we don't feel affection between them, we don't get that "aww" feeling when theyappear together. I got kind of nervous about that, because the author didn't even develop the main couple properly and wanted to address secondary characters, a secondary child's story, and a chapter for the protagonist's parents? My dear, develop your protagonists before you want to talk about other characters.
We had many characters who made cameos in the story and had great narrative potential.
For example, Perto, the knight, had much more resentment to serve as a problem in the story.
The priest of the temple located within the Imperial capital emerged as a character who guarded secrets, but ended up appearing about 3 times in the story and having no relevance whatsoever to the problems that permeated the temple.
The priestess who bullied the protagonist had a cameo and a ridiculously poorly developed reason for it; she could have been a central figure in the story.
The priestess who became friends with the protagonist could have had some plot connected to the plains to make the story a little more interesting.
The duke - whose name I've already forgotten, but he's the one with blue hair - had a completely illogical reason for making the "original protagonist" the empress, and his brother the successor. Seriously, it makes NO sense. It didn't connect in any way to the story or the target characters. It was totally random.
The story constantly introduced characters and threw false clues about their intentions, and none of these clues led anywhere. It seems like you started a recipe and gave up, then started another and gave up, and did this for at least 6 recipes and you ended up with a kitchen full of unfinished dishes and a single finished one that was poorly seasoned. It was a little frustrating.
According to the gringa, the story was heavily censored, since it seems that Magnus psychologically abuses Illyana much more (but considering what Illyana did, it was basically a tit-for-tat situation).