please explain to me what kind of fool the head knight Brien is? He was literally hired by MC to train ML as a soldier, and now he is rooting for the homewrecker princess against his f*cking employer? His BOSS? I don't understand?! Even if he thinks that MC has a more sisterly relationship with the ML, he should be the last person sticking a foot in the marriage and encouraging ML to break his vows with the woman who made him who he is today! And it's not just him! Under what twisted logic should a vassal/servant be rooting for their master to take a new wife? Especially when the princess has not even done anything. Like if she had saved everyone's life or smthng I would kinda understand, but all she did was look pretty and give the description of the enemy general so that ML could hunt him down. That's not that special, even a random POW could've done that.

I think he reports to newspapers or smthng that he has one lawfully wedding wife who he loves but for me, it's too little too late

Duke's War Knights/Vassals : *heard that the duke has not receive letters from his wife when in battlefield*

"Oh no! She's definitely cheating behind his back. Woah the house servants are all loyal to her, hmph, What kind of tricks did she do? The princess is better! Yea f*ck the duchess we also have the right to pick our lord's marriage partner even if we haven't heard any opinions from him yet! His life is ours to decide!! Oh yeah, and let's trust the baseless rumours too!!!"

I mean, like, bro, y'all just went to a f**king war for a f**king long time, don't you have your own f**king life to live? Your family to spend ur life with and idk a life to care about??? Why would you care about your infamously "cold-hearted" duke's romance???? How did y'all win the war with that brain of yours, for f*** sakes! Y'all are men but why are y'all acting like noble widows who gossips all the time? Don't you have any respect for the duke who, idk, led you at a 7 years of war?

With that intelligent of yours, you're supposed to die on the first year of war. I'm surprised you survived. It's a f*cking great miracle that is unnecessary, I guess.

Sorry, I'm just so mad at this story's side-characters' mindset. It's just..... mind-blowing.

Absolutely moronic. So, the FML (armed with her memories from before her transmigration) _rightly_ dislikes the temple and thinks they are evil. BUT she passes all the pills and medicine that she meant "for her baby" who's on the front of a brutal war... TO THE PRIESTS. Because? Because author needed the "I got no letter from him/her for an entire war" trope for drama. Can't she dispatch 10 knights with news DIRECTLY to "her baby"? No. She knows the temple is eeeeveeel. She knows the temple eyes her magical pills and cures. She wants them delivered to "her baby" - she GOT into entire medicine business with that as one of her primary goals, that she would have medicine and panacea and blood-replenishing and body-strenghtening and what-not medicines. And the fact it wasn't delivered for BLOODY SEVEN YEARS kinda happened. She was so powerless after all. She, the wife of a duke with incredible assets and several hundreds of loyal people, soldiers and knights included, with her transmigrator powers was unable to make a bloody letter with a medicine packet delivered to her most important family member. Rrright. So - 7 years of war effort and NO NEW RECRUIT was sent his way? With a hidden letter? Author didn't even portray her wondering or searching for "why no reply". Seriously? What an obvious plot-device. He is portrayed as emotionally unstable and s*upid all the way so I kinda (stretchingly, grudgingly) understand that he's unable to get news about his wife. Well, not really. He has a spirit who claims he can track her but... doesn't act on it. Why? Cause plot. But her? Puh-lease. And the reason turns out to be... TEMPLE. INTERCEPTED. EVERY. BLOODY. LETTER. FOR. AN. ENTIRE. 7. YEAR. PERIOD. They were so great at it nobody realized... until the plot allowed the 'heroes' to think for like 20 seconds. Which then made the eeeveeeel teeempleeee bloody obvious culprit. What an artificial way to make the temple even more obviously eeeeveeel. If you can't write a decent villain, just make the clergy the villain I guess. Everybody hates priests so that's an easy way out, I get that. But, really, intercepting the letters for a person with that much power? So, the temple of the nature god is able to intercept mail because nature is written with ink on paper? How does it even work? Priests have healers so they are letter carriers? Whaaa? How the hell would temple - already hated - be able to INTERCEPT post, which is usually one of the CROWN services? We have imperial government but they yielded the post to the temple? Heck, even war censorship during bloodiest earth wars was unable to make letters disappear. Soldiers rebelled otherwise. For instance you would get a letter and portions would be blackened, so you can't read them but still you would get things from home or from the front.

Because of her continuous care for the ML as a child, both MC and ML grew extremely protective and dependant on each other whether they both know it or not. Everything is subtly and not so subtly set up so if you're rereading it, you can see what the author had put so much foreshadowing. So, basically, you blame everything on the temple like all the other people. The original female lead (who was actually nice from the start I guess) was "turned into a villain" by the temple. She was alone, kind of scared, and the person who saved her doesn't give a poop about her. So when the temple offered her consultations and white lies she took it because she was so naive and mentally scarred at that certain moment.

The ML is still acting like a child to the MC because he thinks that's how she likes him the most. He also tries to only show the MC his "good" side which means he's also extremely careful with his face lol. He's overprotective and so easily jealous but he treats the MC like a powerful yet delicate god that shouldn't be touched by anybody who would potentially steal her love from him. He actually listens (And learns!) which is a lot to ask for when reading them Chinese romance novels. The best part is, the MC and the ML actually talk it out sometimes because the ML isn't scared of asking the MC questions about what she feels about him and whatever problems that he may discover.