The worldbuilding in this one is so fascinating...The Leaning Tower of Pisa-kind of fascinating.
It's like, there is this powerful bloodline of half-devil-somethings that instinctively look down on regular humans, and so should have engendered great hostility from said humans, but somehow they are also a dynasty of very highly ranked nobles, first in honor among vassals of the ~human~ empire. Yet they DO look down on humans, even seemingly with the imperial family itself. And despite this blatant impudence, they themselves appear to be loyal to the empire after all, albeit with their immense influence being balanced, barely, by literally everybody else. They are also utterly untouchable except possibly by some other strange and mysterious untouchables like, well, wizards. Lèse majesté? Lèse shove it up your arse, mortals.
And then there's some strange personal circumstances and publicly known obsessions of an empress keen to treat her own daughter, the imperial princess, as lesser than this dynasty's scion, technically a duke's daughter, but very much The Princess.
For a series about a cute little girl being pampered every living moment by supportive and caring people, and with the art being so bright and vanilla, the background setting is actually all sorts of avant-garde. I'm just fascinated if this is a genius master plan or if the author is trying to put scaffolds around a sinking tower in the Floridan swamps.
It's wild, man.