I wonder, did the King and Duke actually fix the problems with the country in the 10 years that sacrificing Scarlet bought them? Or is their country in no better position than it was in back then, with an incompetent Crown Prince, a traitorous Crown Princess, a government riddled with moles, and a society infiltrated by saboteurs and criminals, and so they sacrificed Scarlet’s life just to extend their own, and wasted the time she had bought them by wallowing in self-pity over their own incompetence?