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The fact that author made her sleep with ugly characters, dudes with STD basically tells you it's a reveng porn story. Ariadne gets all the hot boys and she has to sleep with old ugly or fat ugly dudes.

Manhwa board: Isabella de Mare [Sister, I am the queen in this life]

Novel:

Manhwa:

They did her so wrong. Nothing hurts worse than an antagonist introduced as cunning, intelligent, and you could even agree with them on some level, only for them to be reduced to a flanderized disaster of their former self.

Though I do love how truly evil she is. She has no sad backstory and actually is the family favorite due to her beauty that could be helpful for getting her engaged to a powerful figure. Not all villains have to have complex back stories if they can prove to be an entertaining character.

I kind of wish that instead of Ceasre obessesing over Ariande again, he and Isabella actually become a villainous couple even in the second timeline. It felt lazy to just say, "Isabella was the one who manipulated his poor feelings to love her. It was always her fault and never his fault."

Do I think it's in character for her to kill her youngest sister? Yes, she's pretty willing to kill anyone to get what she wants, including family members. Do I also think it happened too soon? Also yes.

I also low-key want to see the timeline where she is queen, it kinda sucked to find out the first timeline was zapped out of existence canonically and I would have liked to see her evil escapades and later punishment for her sins.

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a little insane how remarried empress portrayed rashta, a former slave, as a villain because she wanted power to be assured that she was never going to be a slave again. how is she bad for wanting that. please explain.

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Rashta: wants to be friends with Navier and wants adjust with the royal life, Navier refuses.

Antis: how dare that bitch! Navier had every right to refuse her. It's not Navier's problem that she wants to adjust

Navier: wants to be friends with Krista, wants to adjust the royal life, Krista refuses

Antis: how dare that bitch deny Navier! She just wanted to be friends and survive in new environment.

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Heinrey actually sold the children to slavery? The fuck? (Sorry for the language) How this guy is considered good especially by his fans. Rashta got vitriol for selling lebbeti to slavery but this guy gets a pass? Let me guess his fans say it was necessary to "protect" his family and he did it for Navier, and it was normal for that time but of course if Rashta does the same thing, she's the worst and doesn't deserve any excuses huh?

Basically, I don't understand it either but it irks me to my core

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You didn't "subvert a classic fairytale." You just re-invented classism

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Lol turns out a chunk of Navier and birdshit stans are Zionists irl. Not surprised at all. Only those type of creatures would defend slavery and try to justify it.

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We need a redo where Rashta is the crown princess and Sovieshu's the runaway slave and becomes her concubine. And Ergi is her fiance.

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The fact that so many people, including myself, debate the “right and wrong” aspect of Rashta's character is exactly why she is so unique. She's grey, complex, and more human than rest of TRE characters and I'd say the main draw of TRE. The author unintentionally (I say unintentionally cause judging by her other stories, she's very classist, her villainess who are rich did worse things than Rashta but didn't face the severe consequences) created the most interesting character and one of the most famous character in manhwa history. It could have been so much better if author wasn't hellbent on propping up her boring MC and actually focused on an grey character like Rashta.

I heard they're making K-drama about it. And I don't have high hopes since K-drama aren't better than Spanish telenovela or Bollywood drama when it comes to misogyny and they suffer from mc syndrome too.

Which is too bad cause the screen writers have a really good chance to enhance the story and focus more on Rashta and make it a very compelling story. But like I said, my expectations are zero to negative.

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Rashta and Krista my beloved

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Remarried empress + The Princess and the Pauper

This movie was my shit back in the day and now I am once again making another AU out of it.

Navier- Anneliese.

I pictured this taking place with a younger Navier (19) Kind of makes sense given how Anneliese is also shown to be very intelligent and resourceful.

Navier was still born the daughter of a Duke but her biological parents passed away when she was still a child, with her childless aunt (The Empress) taking her niece in and making her the next heir to the throne. Unlike the original remarried empress, Navier didn't get engaged to Sovieshu until much recently after a sudden mana shortage. To ensure the large amount of mages aren't left without a job, thus severely damaging the economy, the Empress agrees to marry her niece off to Emperor Sovieshu who would be able to help aide the crisis as his territory is still rich with mana stones. There isn't any worries over heirs if Navier gets married off since the Empress still has plenty of family, (she isn't really concerned about having a direct bloodline)

Rashta- Erika

This one required a few more tweaks of Rashtas character. I know in that in TRE, Rashta was 5-6 years younger than Navier but for the sake of this story, let's just say she's the same age as Navier.

Rashta is still basically a slave but in this version, she is still viewed as a person who can leave the property she lives in to go grocery shopping and what not, she's now an indentured servant to Viscountess Rimwell (Yes I gender bent Lotteshu, it's not the same without a mean ass old lady.) In order to pay off her late father's debt. On top of that, she is a single mother to her son, Ian, fathered by an old fling she had before he left after finding out about the debt she was in (Ian also isn't Alan's in this Au) The only way for Rashta to make any money to keep for herself and her son is to sneak out into town to sing while Ian stays in her arms. This usually works out of sympathy but Madame Rimwell sometimes finds out about what Rashta has been up to and takes whatever spare change she made.

Navier and Rashta have a proper introduction after the former makes a comment on how adorable Ian is and it soon leads to a quick friendship but when the princess mysteriously dissappears, Rashta is entrusted to pretend to be Navier for the meantime while Kaufman gets to the bottom of it. (Her disguise comes with additional golden contact lenses)

When questioned about the baby she brought with her, she claims to have found Ian as an orphan and wishes to keep him in the palace until someone else can adopt him.

Kaufman- Julian

This was really hard because there isnt really anyone who matches Julian in remarried empress except for Baron Lante but he's been described as an older man in the novel. Kaufman was the closest out of all the male leads in Naviers life so I thought "Eh, at least he'll actually be a decent person and not drug anybody in this timeline" I did also decide to remove his mind reading powers and replace them with Julian's ability to easily notice when something is wrong.

Both Kaufman and Navier are in love with eachother but they never actually get in any relationship together until the climax of the story since Navier is willing to prioritize her kingdom over her own happiness.

Kaufman was originally from a long line of Grand Dukes but after his kingdom lost in a war, many of the original nobles of the land were stripped of their titles and exiled, rendering Kaufman to live in poverty for most of his childhood. His known noble history still existed though and it was how he was granted the role of Naviers newest science tutor. (I imagined they met a few years prior when they were both teenagers)

Sovieshu- King Dominic

Yeah this wasn't hard at all, all I had to do was imagine a world where Sovieshu and Rashta were not a toxic couple.

Sovieshu is still an Emperor and while he did want to establish a peaceful alliance, he also didn't know if he could love Navier if he tried his hardest and initially planned on calling off his engagement to her and find another solution to the kingdoms mana crisis.

But of course, what he didn't know was that the real Navier had been kidnapped and in her place, was Rashta. Despite the rushed relationship to prepare for marriage, Sovieshu already felt that he could forge a genuine relationship overtime.

The rest to say about Sovieshu and Rashta is overall the same as Dominic and Erika, with the only key difference being Sovieshu becoming a loving step-dad to Ian. Since he also wasn't already married + actually viewing Rashta as a person, the two are actually a happy couple.

Heinrey- Preminger

This was probably the funnest part of this Au because Heinrey would absolutely rock as Preminger. It's actually makes sense when you realize that Heinrey initially planned on straight up kidnapping Navier if she didn't fall in love with him herself.

Similarly to Kaufman, Heinreys kingdom fell into ruin when he was still a prince after the house of Zemensia seized power and have successfully overthrown Heinreys family. Heinrey managed to escape but he is still resentful of his situation. He managed to work his way up in another kingdom as the Empress's advisor with a plan to enact his revenge: By draining the kingdom of every bit of mana he could find before giving it right back under the guise of a miracle he came across in order to marry Navier, become the next Emperor and go to war with the Zemensias to take back his homeland.

When word goes around that the Empress has already found a wealthy Emperor to marry Navier off too, Heinrey devises a new plan to kidnap Navier, wait for Sovieshu to cancel the engagement, pretend to be the one who rescues her and bring her back home so he can marry her and it all basically falls back to the original script of the princess and the pauper with a few subtle changes.

Fun fact: I imagined Heinrey with his own evil pet bird to mirror Premingers dog, Midas.

Lotteshu- Madame Carp

There isn't any big changes, everythings pretty much more or less the same, only that Lotteshu has been gender bent and is a bitchy old woman now 😂

If this plot is a tad historically inaccurate, I'm sorry, barbie movies aren't really known for everything being 100% realistic so there are more stretches than usual like colored contacts somehow existing in the 1700s.

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Why didn't author focused more on Rashta/Sovieshu/Ergi drama after the divorce arc? It was so interesting to see this trio ruining each other's lives. I really don't give a crap about Navi or her twink husband and their dry ass romance.

Rashta should have lived, Ergi should have been more toxic while having love-hate feelings for both Rashta and Sovieshu. Sovieshu should have gotten more headache dealing with two yandere who can't leave him alone. We could have had it all!

But instead we got navier and heibly focus. Ugh

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Someone said Rashta/Sovieshu/Ergi and yeah I'm in

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i’ve been seeing more people waking up to how the true villain in TRE have always been the men instead of rashta or krista and it’s so satisfying. also lots of people starting to notice how boring TRE is without rashta because she was the only character who experienced real struggles and had complex and interesting personality.

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"Sovieshu was using Rashta for sick urges." And what were those sick urges? Was he having dirty nasty hot sex with Rashta and doing kinky bdsm or something without her consent? Did we miss the memo?

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So Rashta is greedy for wanting to live a cozy life as an empress but Navier isn't? She literally married a teenage boy she barely knew with questionable reputation just for the title of a monarch! How the hell is that not greedy? Navier stans annoy me to the core

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Let's be real.

After Rashta was deposed as Empress for being a slave and became known as the most wicked Empress in history, the discrimination against slaves probably increases tenfold.

Like, you mean to tell me after all scandal like that, slave owners wouldn't be like "See! I told you guys we need to keep these things in their place or else they'll become greedy monsters!" And Slaves wouldn't be treated worse as a result?

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The fact that so many people, including myself, debate the “right and wrong” aspect of Rashta's character is exactly why she is so unique. She's grey, complex, and more human than rest of TRE characters and I'd say the main draw of TRE. The author unintentionally (I say unintentionally cause judging by her other stories, she's very classist, her villainess who are rich did worse things than Rashta but didn't face the severe consequences) created the most interesting character and one of the most famous character in manhwa history. It could have been so much better if author wasn't hellbent on propping up her boring MC and actually focused on an grey character like Rashta.

I heard they're making K-drama about it. And I don't have high hopes since K-drama aren't better than Spanish telenovela or Bollywood drama when it comes to misogyny and they suffer from mc syndrome too.

Which is too bad cause the screen writers have a really good chance to enhance the story and focus more on Rashta and make it a very compelling story. But like I said, my expectations are zero to negative.