@yannickq Don’t misunderstand, I’ve some serious issue with the story, to the point I will be dropping it soon ; but I don’t necessarily agree with the all criticism raised at it.
1. My point was that this could be said of anyone of high status intending. In fact, a complete unknown showing would have probably been suspicious. I do agree that the emperor doing what he did under those circumstances was ridiculous.
2. Of course an author can’t write the whole crowd, but you can’t pretend 2 people are a representative sample; 4 or 5 would have been way better and within the bound of possible. Rubia is also in a position (earl’s or count’s daughter, don’t remember ) that would be way more likely to know the emperor looks, and the FL has a personality that would make her uninterested in this kind of info.
3. How was I supposed to know? Also, those two event are not all her interactions so far, calling it her whole behavior is disingenuous.
The former falls within my original argument and the latter is straight up terrible contrived writing.
However I do take issue with your statement regarding her behavior relative to her age, aging doesn’t necessarily make one better tempered; Heck, it can go the other way too. And it’s been shown that she has been working on that part of her, so it isn’t like she isn’t trying to better herself.