Going through the comments.. I am at awe with two teams - Team Navier and Team Rashta.. BUT why are people villainizing Navier?

Why should a wife be expected to accept a child born to her husband’s mistress? I don’t blame Rashta or Navier. I blame the Emperor Soveishu.

Navier was mature enough to take a stand and move on, and that’s exactly why I loved her character. There is nothing wrong with being selfish in a situation like this, especially when that “selfishness” doesn’t actually hurt anyone.

Navier clearly stated that she would not accept a child who wasn’t hers. She was divorced by the person she trusted the most, the same person who had promised her that she would be his only wife. Why should she suddenly be expected to welcome his mistress and her child with open arms just because Rashta was young?

Rashta was innocent in the beginning, and I never hated her. She was used and manipulated by many of the people she trusted, and those experiences eventually turned her into someone cruel. I never favored her, but I also don’t think she was the original culprit. Soveishu was.

Why do I support Navier?

1. There is nothing wrong with being positively selfish. Navier was protecting herself and her position. She wasn’t going out of her way to destroy anyone.

2. She was cold because she had to be. If Navier had been overly emotional, forgiving, and submissive, she could easily have ended up like Rashta. Her composure was one of her strengths.

3. She understood her world. Navier was born into the nobility and understood exactly how the imperial system worked. She knew what being an Empress meant and what was expected of her.

4. She had no obligation to accept the mistress’s child. Soveishu had promised her that she would be his only wife. He broke that promise. Why should Navier have to sacrifice her dignity and accept the consequences of his betrayal?

5. Navier always had a clear goal: remaining Empress. When she realized she was going to be divorced, she didn’t sit around waiting for someone to save her. She immediately started thinking about what she would do next. She basically found herself another position through marriage to Heinrey. Meeting him at the right time was partly luck, but she was already planning her future.

6. Heinrey was completely in love with her. He took the opportunity because he genuinely wanted her.

7. Without Heinrey, Navier would have been a discarded Empress. She would have been humiliated and potentially become a laughingstock. And even after marrying Heinrey, her life wasn’t magically perfect. She still had to navigate an entirely new environment and deal with its problems.

8. Navier never actually harmed Rashta or her baby. She wanted to remain Empress and keep her distance from Rashta. But because of Rashta’s insecurity, and because Soveishu kept enabling and protecting her, Navier was constantly blamed for things she didn’t do.

9. Even the infertility issue wasn’t simply Navier’s fault. She and Soveishu had eaten the same fertility reducing/abortion inducing cookies when they were young, and neither of them had been able to have children. Yet somehow, Navier was treated as though being childless made her replaceable. They both were had weak fertility together.. She was able to have kids with Heinery. If she hadn't married Heinery, she would have been stigmatized to be infertile for life and may be never remarried.

So what exactly do people expect from Navier?

She was a mature woman in her late 20s or early 30s, not a teenager. Should she have become a doormat to a teenage girl and shown endless mercy while her own husband betrayed her?

Empresses aren’t supposed to be bootlickers. They are expected to be composed, politically intelligent, calm, and sometimes cold and calculating. That doesn’t automatically make them evil.

Yes, historically, it was normal for kings and emperors to have multiple wives or consorts. But that isn’t the point here. Navier’s husband specifically promised her that she would be his only wife. Then he brought in a mistress, had a child with her, divorced Navier, and expected Navier to simply accept everything.

And for what? To make his child a legitimate heir? To replace Navier because she was supposedly unable to have children?

How is Navier the villain in that situation?

The real culprit is the Emperor Sovieshu.

Rashta was fine until she started doing terrible things. I don’t hate her because I understand how she was manipulated and mistreated, but I don’t excuse her actions either.

Navier, on the other hand, remained consistent throughout the story. She didn’t suddenly become cruel or evil. In fact, I think she became even better after marrying Heinrey because she finally had someone who genuinely valued and respected her.

So yes, I will always support Navier. She chose herself, protected her dignity, and refused to let someone else’s betrayal define her life..

Thank you if read it till the end!!