Honestly 90% of people's problems in these revenge fantasy/ villainess stories can be explained away as being under the influence of dream logic.
"If only this wretched child of mine wasn't born, my wife wouldn't have died to child birth complications!" Keep dreaming, Diego
"It is perfectly acceptable for a prince to replace a Duke's daughter who trained her whole life to be Queen with a country side girl from a low tier
noble house, even though she keeps disregarding etiquette rules and has a reverse harem of sons from other noble houses that are critical to keeping
my kingdom stable"
Keep dreaming, trash princes. Also, not your kingdom, YET, and not likely you'll ever get it.
"Even though the public is highly in favor of this country side noble/commoner girl becoming the next Queen after the Crown Prince showed a great
public display of affection for her, I swore to be her knight and therefore refuse to give up on her, even if she ultimately chooses the Crown Prince,
[as though a lowly girl in her position would be allowed to reject the CP], I must always be there to protect her smile!"
....goddamn cuck.

blinks Why does this chapter feel so short??

wow he's worse than I could've imagined

our queen hillis:

booooooo 👎 dude should stay with gabrielle they deserve each other and belong in the trash

She was like

I wish I could leave the room as fast as she does

serves you right idiot

Life #2 was also so tragic 🤧 and here we solidify mr. winter as having a heart of ice and just being an all-around stone cold prick