Sovieshu is hopeless *eye roll*
I feel like the story here is a reverse of the classical tale where the young, handsome king falls in love with a beautiful, poor heroine. Sure, he has a wife but the empress was chosen for him when he was seven. She is cold and smart and loves her position as a queen.
I like that aspect and that we are able to feel bad for the queen. I do feel, however, that it would have been better if more time were spent on making Rashta sympathetic and her actions more understandable. There is a potential, why make her so one layered that every single person gets annoyed by her mere existence?