i think it's more obvious than the novel translations that sovieschu is holding on to some sort of childhood love for empress and is kind of forcing a love triangle on them because of this. but the thing is, empress (navier) isn't getting that and is trying to clearly (to which i appreciate greatly compared to other protags that don't clear it up) tell sovieschu that she isn't interested in such trivial things. sovieschu just wants navier to be jealous, but it's not going his way, and he's very obstinate and keeps trying to provoke navier. sovieschu could be so much more if he wasn't so obstinate in how he goes about trying to get navier. his actions come across as obnoxious and ignorant and makes everyone including me dislike him.
tl;dr sovieschu is using trashta to make navier jealous, but navier has been educated as an empress to be dignified and not care.
also. we all know trashta is trash, but i can't believe the characters in the setting don't get that. her innocence is "pure" and she's simply "ignorant" in their eyes, because who the fuck gets happy about their polygamous husband yelling at his original wife without coming off as fucking delusional and psychotic? lmao. dumb bitches gets stitches in the end. gl surviving the shit you've dug yourself, trashta. take the leftovers that is sovieschu after navier gets out of this shitty relationship.