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Ohhhh interesting. That would make me feel so much better. It had really been bothering me haha

As far as I could tell, they were playmates / gigolos. To me, that's an innocent. They're not corrupt, they're the lowest class in that era and completely powerless. CSS at least goes after the people who hurt her, no matter how powerful. But what LBY did was to kill people who couldn't fight back and not doing anything to the princess. It's precisely the same mentality - theirs lives aren't worth anything except as a message to someone who actually counts. I just wish the drama had chosen a different punishment - I feel like it glossed over murder really fast, when so much of the focus of the story is on how LBY is justified in wanting revenge for the death of innocent people HE cared about. Just not other innocent people I guess. Made me sad :(

Yeah I'm focusing on the fact that LBY told him to. Government sponsored murder isn't any better even if "legal", right? If the emperor were a bad guy in a drama (which is frequently) the evil things he does aren't excused by the audience because technically he is the law.

I can't get over how upset I am at LBY for how he punished the 5th princess... he murdered innocent men and the drama wants me to get back into the romance? His whole character arc is rage at the murder of innocents. 5th princess' whole thing is that she didn't see CSS's life as any more than an "ant" and that "people die every day." Can't tell how LBY is any better for killing men who didn't have anything to do with the bullying - just to teach someone else a lesson? Is the next part of the drama going to be the revenge arc of people who loved one of them hunting down LBY? It's just so hypocritical and I had been enjoying the drama so much :/