This is honestly almost cartoonish. It’s so obvious that the king’s motivation (or lack thereof) is just so the author can write a turn-your-brain-off edgy power fantasy that doesn’t really make sense. They didn’t even go with “she was too popular and it threatened my legitimacy” or “the masses...
they're sparkly. like, distractingly so. It's kind of off-putting. Also the MC goes through a deit-arc where they swap out her cute chubby design for Thin Girl #1021569. Aside from that it's an okay mid-tier story.