idk if it's an unpopular opinion or not, but at the very beggining the only one to blame was sovieshu. sure, rasha was unbearably annoying but she was a slave - an uneducated person who also had quite a naive outlook on life. when the emperor took interest in her, i can't blame her for staying with him, despite him having a wife. hell, if i was in her position, where the only choice i have is to either listen to the emperor or die, i would do the same. after all it's not like sovieshu would take "no" for an answer, as we've seen plenty of times with nadir. that being said, what she's doing right now is manipulative, calculated and spiteful. if she wanted to "just live quietly", she wouldn't covet the empress' seat, for god's sake! if she settled with JUST being a concubine, not like a real wife, a mother to princes/princesses or an empress, i'm sure she'd be alright. nadir would try to tolerate her as long as sovieshu didn't talk about her. she would've lived her best life and yet, she wants more. such a hypocrite at that.