229 chapters feels like only 50chapters of manga while the pace is super slower, I might need another 400chapters in order to feels some progress in the story. Eventhough many changes happened but they're of such small scales compare to the almighty of MC and 9th prince. It's like I just kicked a few pebbles in the way while I'm walking in my own backyard. If anyone wonder how I messured this, I suggest you read Tales of Demons and Gods....the pace is good there, I know we shouldn't compare Shonen and Shojo but we could somehow rush the pace without exagerrated things to make it more dramatic, since the MC is strong and ruthless. All I got from this story is a little chit chat, things will be more dramatic if the story goes double the pace like at this point at least the civil war must emerged, The story should be head toward the MC become the great empress of all time and how she make everything great in the end, even without over exaggerated just this alone could have 10 volumes for novel and over 1000chapters on comic,If each chapter released everyday it would be at least 3 years if we included some holiday. But I'm sure this is more like weekly stuff so with this pace and some short breaks each year when will this story finished ? Do I have to wait for the next 10 years ? Well my life would progressed so much for those years of waiting, and I might even lost interest midway. I must admitted that the story about politic caught my interest to read til this point, but if you're familiar with manga it wouldn't be much to read just about 50chapters right ? It only took me 2days to completed 229chapters. I just feels like the author don't even want to finish this story to begin with, so I will just stop at this. Normally I would ready about 60chapters for manga so it would be more fair to stop at about 300chapters but that would be too long of the wait.