Sovieshu Simps

Heinrey: You see, brother, the key to winning a lady's heart is to be there during her time of need. Why, when Navier shed tears, I would shift into my avian form and sneak into her room through her window. She didn't know who I was just yet of course but it didn't matter, for she would eventually learn how to love again, thanks to me.

Royce: Heinrey, that sounds illegal...

I wanted to draw Rashta for Halloween, but as always, I didn't make it in time, and I won't be able to finish it (⁠･ั⁠ω⁠･ั⁠)

Even if you ignore the fact that Navier doesn't seem to care about slaves and the poor she still doesn't care about her people. She had no problem abandoning her people for bird dick and when she found out that her new hubby was kidnapping children from her previous empire (aka the people she claims she cares about) she didn't do anything, she just scolded him for a few minutes and then went back to being lovely dovey with him.

She has absolutely no problem with pardoning criminals as long as the atrocities they commit benefit her. She doesn't care that the ice magic she got was stolen from children, she's just glad she got it somehow. She also decided to just appoint her daughter as the empress of her ex husband's empire without caring if they people even wanted Lari as their empress.

And Heinrey is even worse. This mf has been preparing for war for years, he wasted so much time, money and resources on a war that never happened. Imagine being a soldier, training day and night and preparing for a war that will benefit your kingdom, you can't see your family because of how busy you are but you're doing it in order to give them a better life, only for the king to cancel the war and halt all the preparations because he fell in love. All these recourses and money went to waste when they could have been used to help the people.

Heinrey also has no problem murdering, torturing, threatening and imprisoning anyone to dares to criticise his precious wifey. Even if the people bring up good points and are rightfully skeptical of a new queen, who used to be the empress of the enemy btw, he just shuts everyone down and threatens them. He doesn't care what his people think or feel, all that matters is Navier and her only.

He also changed his kingdom's status to an empire putting a target on the whole nation. But of course he doesn't care, as long as his wifey is satisfied he is good.

Let’s begin with a quote from the wiki:

"As a child, Sovieshu was a kind and sweet boy, continuously looking out for his mother and best friend by trying to ensure they were alright and comfortable. He was very playful, as shown in flashbacks during his time with Navier. In one incident, he even ended up injuring himself to pick peaches for her from a high branch to make her happy. He also teased her often and in return he often got hit with a pillow by her."

From early childhood, Sovieshu showed strong empathy toward others, and he does not stop doing so in adulthood. He is the first to show compassion toward Rashta and to see her not as a runaway slave, but as an ordinary person with her own thoughts and desires. He genuinely cares about her, visiting her whenever he can. He does not grow close to her immediately, but as soon as the court nobles begin spreading rumors more actively, he makes her his concubine in order to protect her in some way.

He could have fabricated a commoner background for her, but the author, in order to make Rashta a particularly hated figure at court, does not allow Sovieshu to take such actions.

“Unlike most nobles, he questions the existence of slavery and considers to restrict its practice (for example: minimum living situations would be granted, certain abuses by their owners would not be allowed, etc.), but does not consider to try to limit the crimes that condemn the punished as slaves, eliminate its inheritance system which condemns the descendants of slaves to the same fates, and much less completely abolish slavery itself. Generally, it seems that, as a ruler, his heart was originally good-intended, but his own interiorized prejudices and beliefs interfered in his desire to help his people.”

Unlike Navier, Sovieshu questions the very concept of slavery, which, for a ruler of that era, is an almost revolutionary and liberal idea—one that requires a great deal of empathy (though it is unclear which specific prejudices are being referred to here). Sovieshu sees people rather than titles. That is why he forgives Viscount Roteschu for revealing Rashta’s past (he allows him to continue visiting the palace freely - though this is likely the author’s will, without which the plot could not continue, rather than an actual fault on Sovieshu’s part). He also forgives Grand Duke Kaufman, who, out of jealousy, allows himself to strike the Emperor of another nation (!) and insult the official concubine.

At the same time, Sovieshu emphasizes that he refrains from imposing serious punishment only because he does not want to ruin the man’s reputation, and instead limits himself to severing diplomatic relations - after which Navier accuses him of acting emotionally:

“I do not know what you are planning, but I cannot trust someone who seems to be driven only by emotion. To protect your reputation, I will not imprison you.” He turned away coldly. “But I will have to reconsider my agreement with Kaufman.”

Sovieshu repeatedly asks Navier to treat Rashta with compassion, but she refuses to be involved with her in any way, even though Rashta’s safety and comfort are literally her responsibility as the mistress of the palace. At the very beginning, when Navier withdraws her hand from the injured Rashta, Sovieshu says a phrase that reveals everything we need to know about his worldview:

“Is an empress’s dress nobler than a human hand?”

Even the attempted murder of Rashta by Viscount—Duchess Tuania’s lover - is regarded by Sovieshu, who is often called weak-willed, as a brutal crime, and he sentences the viscount to death. However, due to Navier’s special power - namely, the author’s unlimited love - he mitigates the sentence and merely exiles the criminal (which could be interpreted as his belief in second chances, though it is more likely the author’s desire to portray Navier - who, incidentally, had intended to spare a man who tried to kill someone! - as wise and rational).

Let us talk about Sovieshu’s other qualities. Everyone knows that he is deeply dependent on Navier, with whom he spent most of his life. He loves her, and at times even shows jealousy, which is usually nothing more than genuine concern for her. For example, in one of their conversations about Heinrey, he warns her to be cautious around foreigners - which is fairly logical. It would be unpleasant if the secrets of the Eastern Empire suddenly ended up in another country’s hands - especially one with which they had long-standing tensions and, until the New Year celebrations, no diplomatic relations at all.

He even admits that he would not necessarily object if Navier had lovers (which is still very different from legal concubines, a common practice in the Eastern Empire, unlike lovers, who could damage the Empress’s reputation).

Throughout the novel, Sovieshu is the only one of the two who tries to repair their relationship and restore the friendship the author constantly alludes to:

“Would you like a drink, Empress?”

“I’m fine. I’ll have cake.”

“You’ll gain weight.”

“That’s better than getting drunk in public, isn’t it?”

“I’m not going to get drunk. But if you eat at this hour, you’ll grow fat.”

“Even if I gain a little weight, I have a tailor.”

Sovieshu smirked into his wine as I put a piece of cake into my mouth."

This dialogue is pure teasing, reminiscent of the friendship they once shared - the one the author keeps insisting existed.

Sovieshu is an empathetic character, capable of kindness and care. The novel repeatedly mentions how he dreams of having a child (and ultimately, he becomes the only genuinely good father figure who truly tries to care for his child). When his future firstborn appears, he worries that Navier will not accept the child:

Sovieshu hesitated at first, but eventually replied,

“I am afraid the Empress will treat the child with hostility.”

It is precisely because of his love for children and his desire to be a good father that Sovieshu takes the child away from Rashta, fearing that, due to her deteriorating mental state, she might harm him:

“Her mental state deteriorated further after her crimes against the empire were exposed, and Duke Ergi Claude maliciously brought his estranged son to Sovieshu during the paternity trial of Glorym. When the results showed no blood relation, Rashta was arrested for crimes against the empire and the Emperor. During the trial, she was found guilty of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment. She was stripped of her title as Empress. She committed suicide in prison by swallowing a poison pill, and Sovieshu had her cremated and scattered her ashes.”

Because of shock and despair after the falsified paternity test results, and considering his frail health (throughout the story, Sovieshu frequently faints and experiences hallucinations), he likely did not even attend the trial.

I am not trying to justify Sovieshu’s dishonest actions toward Rashta, but I do believe that, to some extent, he became a victim of circumstances. Rashta, portrayed with childlike speech and behavior, was written that way deliberately so that she could never compete with Navier. The author intentionally made Rashta appear as pitiful as possible in the eyes of readers so that her favorite heroine would shine by contrast.

Sovieshu could have been an interesting character and a great Emperor if Alpha Tart had not been afraid to challenge Navier. He could have been a likable character if he had been developed not solely through the lens of hatred toward a treacherous adulterer, but through a more objective perspective free of favoritism.

Okay, I'm not really a manhwa reader, I was reading manhwas only in 2020-2023, usually some bls like Semantic error and gls like Her Shim Cheong. And in 2025 I stambled on some video related to manhwas and it was basically a rant about the manhwa Remarried empress with Charlie Kirk song. So when I started to read this manhwa, I already knew it would be bad.

But I didn't know that it would be so much worse. The sloppy plot with holes that can be sewed only with characters' dumbness, the raw worldbuilding, the whiny Mary sue fl with fried keratin with some ugly edgelord bird, the pdf the author tries to excuse and only normally written character with only good design - Rashta. How this shit even gained the popularity, omg, though I suppose it was because of some 14 y.o. girls without any literature experience that wanted to project themselves on Navieslop after they broke up with their first boyfriend, lol. When I started reading it, I thought the worst manhwa I've ever read was Jinx, but at least Jinx has good art style unlike... this.

It was really so bad after Her Shim Cheong because this gl was the only historical manhwa I've read at that moment, it was practically my standard. And then I was seeing how people praise ts in big 2025-2026, are we serious rn, I thought that I was in some shitass kindergarten. This shit's place on the top is undeserved, tbh, but the manhwa Stepmother's Marchen could easily replace it. The characters, the art style and everything are 10x times better. I mean, at least it's not giving booktok with y/n and cringy alpha male. But it's my opinion, because even Return to the Silent Hill felt like an arthouse masterpiece after Remarried trash.

I thought manhwa community grew up, but I suppose some people just don't want to develop their literacy skill (I'm not talking about people who like this manhwa and still know its flaws, I'm talking about crazy fans that behave like MAGA and treat Slavier like their Donald Trump), I was kinda disappointed. I'm not visiting Webtoon atp (since they really try to push this story with mysogynistic and classist narrative), it's worse than Wattpad.

I'm sorry but Laura is basically a bitch, as in she's literally the devout fan follower of the perfect FL who's meant to instigate hostilities with any woman she deems as a competition against Navier and therefore, should either not exist near her or know her place and bow her head when she's near, that's basically how it goes. The entire story is just a bunch of grown ups expecting to be taken seriously while acting, like a bunch of hormonal teens! And they hate "the so-called age regressor childish villainess bitch" who doesn't know her place and literally no one, in or out of this story cares that Rashta's upbringing is why she's the way she is, before the main story starts, she's barely out of her abusive cage where she's only treated as a property of ownership but ofc let's hate on her and roots for the ppl who abuse her and treat her like the wrong kind of existence because she basically doesn't know her place, uneducated and acting without decorum

In the Remarried Empress universe it doesn't matter if you are a good or a bad person. You can be the most vile human to ever exist but as long as you are a simp for Navier and commit atrocities in her name then you are automatically one of the good characters.

Heinrey, Kosair, Kaufman, Lebetti and many more have done awful things, they have committed I don't even know how many crimes that would normally be punished by imprisonment or death but because they worship the ground the fl walks on they are immediately forgiven and suffer no punishment.

This becomes more obvious in the alternative timeline where Rashta is taken in by Navier and becomes her maid. In that timeline Rashta acts as childish as the og timeline and she behaves the same way around Navier as she did with Sovieshu but because she does and says these things to defend Navier's honour or whatever she is seen as passionate and silly just like Laura is seen in the og timeline.

After their child died, Rashta asked him to elope with her. The viscount’s son claimed to love her, but he didn’t want to give up his life as a noble. “I thought you were stuck in a pit,” he had told her. “I wanted to save you. Now I realize…you are the pit. I can’t pull you out. You’ll only drag me and any children we have down with you.”

A girl who is mentally 24-year-old mature woman! seduces a 16 year old teenage boy which is literally grooming—that boy is also her stepsister's fiancé—which means she is stealing another girl's partner purely to take “revenge” and provoke her, and yet she is supported and praised by the fandom

VS

a girl who was a slave, poor, raped, beated and abused married a king simply to survive her horrific life. Also Back then, refusing a king could lead to punishment or even death. And yet, despite her circumstances, she is hated by the fandom.

I wanted to ask your thoughts on Ergi specifically. Why do you think he seems to favor Navier beyond the obvious projection of his mother onto her?

I’m also really curious about what Ergi personally considers to be a “good” woman. His standards feel very twisted and contradictory to me.

Finally, I wanted to ask about your hypothesis on Heinrey falling in love with Navier in the original novel. Personally, I’ve always felt that it wasn’t just her intelligence or status, but the fact that she’s an emotionally vulnerable yet highly capable high noblewoman, someone who is used to strength and responsibility, but starved of genuine emotional safety. Do you think his love is rooted more in admiration or timing?

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1: Navier represents the nobility as a whole in most kingdoms and empires in my rewrite, she's the symbol that defends divine right, imperialism, and misogyny. Ergi doesn't really favor Navier as a person; he favors the values she stands for.

2: That's because his standards ARE twisted, it's one reason he originally didn't want to marry anyone at all and why Eva is always on guard around him. Ergi's hatred of women comes from the trauma he gained from his stepmother, a woman who used her innocent beauty to charm his father, steal the role as his mother, burned down his family home to do so and there was nothing he could do about it. He hyper analyzes on the character of a woman and views every trait she could possibly have as either a flaw or something that will eventually turn into a flaw. With him, all women are harboring evil within, there is no such thing as the good woman in his eyes. If Navier wasn't the empress that defended noble values, then he would treat her the same as he does everyone else.

3: Heinrey and Navier are a dark romance couple in my rewrite; they love each other because they can find solace in thinking that nothing is wrong with them as people, they're only the "innocent" nobles who didn't ask to be born into greatness, so they don't think it should be their responsibility to cave in the name of humanity since they have responsibilities far more important than other people, they sort of enable each other in that way. At first, he just wanted Navier as a prize, a little bonus to stick it to Sovieshu by seducing his perfect wife (or even just kidnapping her if worst came to worst) after his conquest came into fruition.

One half of his love for Navier comes from the fact that he sees her as an extension of himself, and the other half comes from the fact that they really do complement each other in more ways that Heinrey initially believed.