Now that's he's prematurely cured and has a romantic interest that is not the main lead, does this mean that the trajectory of the "female lead" and "male leads" will get screwed with? Like, will they fall for those they weren't supposed to fall for now? Will the plot of the Emperor who saw his own child as more befitting salvation than another and transferred the curse onto another as opposed to himself?
One wonders where it's going to go from here... Hmm....