One thing bothered me from yesterday and if someone can set me straight that would be great. Xuan is ready to…
I'm going to say it was because he was worrying about the princesses and wasn't 100% focused. But yes, he did get his derriere handed to him and he's a prince who has been in the military, so he's not just someone who has been sheltered .
If I marry a man for his money, marriage of convenience, and I divorce him later, I will still be his ex even if there wasn't any love between us. In the king's case, it seems like unrequited love (I have not read the novels), so she's still an ex. Even if neither was in love ex is just a prefix, in this case for ex-wife, which she is.