Seems annoying, but I get why the Empress is the way she is, she feels she failed to "iron out" her daughter's "tomboyish" ways. Yes she is MIGHTY but she's of her time and as Empress, she has to be the STANDARD of what it means to be a Noblewoman! (Of course she was doomed because her daughter is a reincarnation of a Man! While she IS willing to DRESS and appear as a PROPER NOBLEWOMAN! She can never throw out the Tomboyish part of her! Likely why Reincanration is usually "completely memory loss" as it's EASIER for the Reincarnate to adjust to their "gender" if it's different! Hence I prefer Gender Swap Reincarnation to just have the female HAVE the Male Past Life's memories and knowledge, but NOT BE THEM as I'm kind of tired of the "got to always be a Lesbian cause being with a Man is GAY even if FULL NATURAL BORN FEMALE" I think only ONE STORY subverted this, and in that on the ML was the Gender Bended FMC "Past Life Wife gender bend herself into the ML and just like her husband liked CUTE THINGS and girly stuff so it was easy for him to adjust to being a girl, she was tomboyish and masculine back in their last life that she can easily adjust to being a boy! Hell their engagement was perfect for them less because of knowing the soul is the opposite gender and more they already had feelings for each other in their last life and so are happy to continue their relationship! Especially since they kind of WERE married initially for the sake of APPEARING married to their relatives and they were living together already, they just died before they could come to TERMS with their feelings to the other, where they MIGHT have upgraded from "Fake" to "Real" Husband & Wife anyway)
Just a gripe I have. But hey we need new conflict. And you can't hate the "antagonists" of this arc since they aren't wrong that she kind of IS forcing her will on them. Though she's not wrong for fighting back as she just wants to follow HER Path as they try to get her to CONFORM to being a Proper Princess! I like the occasional "no bad guys" type arcs from time to time