Every single time I come back to this manhwa I feel like I've missed one or two chapters setting up the plot, the characters, and at least a couple of Chekhov's guns that I'm seeing blasting left and right.
Honestly... 😮💨
It's getting a little difficult to follow the story and to empathise with our heroes' struggles. Maybe it would've been better if I binged the series, but right now I'm like, who are they again? why should I care? is there a reason it's all getting explained through a hastily put-together flashback?
Yeah, I saw the foreshadowing in the previous chapter (more like two ominous frames of the Empress plotting her cunning plots and scheming her vile schemes), but man is it unsatisfying for some reason. Maybe the obvious tear-jerker of the "I gotta do it for muh family" setup?