@Mar19 yup, it's as you've said. the church hates her because of her political argument about last christmas. church won't give money for the yearly party for the nobles because they are "giving" food to the poor. the nobles doesn't want to cut cost beacause it will show weakness among the empire. shuli proposes that her family will give money for the party with the condition that the church must provide a receipt of some kind that proves that they really did give food for the poor and that they didn't embezzled the money.
story is quite good, although it will become quite messy in the future with the prince using his power to push shuli and her family into the corner just to have her love as seen now, if he can do it now then what of in the future? with the addition of the church, specially the priest. the cancelation of her marriage, if succesful, will make the eldest kid( i forgot his name, her eldest child) have the idea of marrying her since she's not her legal mother anymore and their age is somewhat close(difference of 2 years i think, shuli being older). Man this is becoming interesting, i might drop it though because of the spiler i read, but hey, maybe i won't