Really breaks my heart when I read the spoilers about how lucius ended up marrying and father a child with one of the concubines but I get it, makes this novel alot more different than the others and alot more realistic, an Emperor or king must always out his duty above all else so I feel bad for him, on the upside I like how rebecca is more into pol than she is with lucius

my favorite thing Is that in the novel before he falls in love with Pol, Lucius states that what he wants in an empress is someone who could never be jealous of his concubines but he ends up becoming jealous of his concubines cuz they spend so much time with pol and they get along so well