The Remarried Empress: A Not-So-Great Webtoon

The Remarried Empress: A Not-So-Great Webtoon

Author: Sarah Bijoy

The Remarried Empress, a webcomic, is about an empress, Navier, who was basically perfect: beautiful, intelligent,

and amazing at running her kingdom alongside her perfect husband, whom she had been friends with since

childhood, and had a great relationship with. Or so she thought. However, one day, when her husband brings home

a mistress, everything changes. Her husband, Sovieshu, demands a divorce, and Navier obliges, but she also

requests… a remarriage.

Characters:

• Navier - Empress

• Sovieshu - Emperor

• Rashta - Mistress

• Heinrey - Emperor of a different kingdom who Navier wants to

(WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD)

This webtoon started out great. We got to see how Navier enacted her revenge against her cheating husband.

When Navier finally got remarried, I was happy for her and how things turned out for her. However, I couldn’t hateRashta. Rashta was a poor girl sold into slavery by her father. She eventually fell in love with her owner’s son,

and had a child with him. Enraged, her owner pretended to kill the child, causing Rashta to go into despair. But

when her life had just hit rock bottom, Sovieshu saved her and brought her to the palace to become a mistress.

Anyone in her situation would have done the same if offered the choice between slavery and royalty.

In addition to this, I despised the way Navier acted towards her. Although Rashta was stealing her husband,

Navie, even after knowing her circumstances, treated Rashta like utter trash in many situations, mocking her

inexperience with royal customs, etiquette, families, etc.. Rashta, of course, had absolutely no way of knowing this

kind of stuff. Meanwhile, Navier had been trained her whole life to become Empress. Rashta was thrown into a

brand new world with no experience whatsoever and Navier mocked her for not being perfect.

But the number one worst character in the webcomic was definitely Sovieshu, Navier’s idiot husband. On a

side note, there are barely any scenes of him actually helping Navier run the kingdom. But the main thing this guy

did was create the world’s most idiotic plan. His plan was to divorce Navier, make Rashta empress for a year, and

then dethrone her and take Navier back. Navier was deemed infertile, since at a young age, her and Sovieshu both

ate infertility cookies by accident. However, when Rashta got pregnant, Sovishu believed Navier was the problem.

He needed an heir for the throne, and Rashta was his only option, so he created the idiotic plan. However, little did

he know that the baby in Rashta’s stomach wasn’t his. And little did he foresee that Navier wouldn’t even want to

come back to him. His self-centered, idiotic, anger-issue ridden character really pissed me off.

Additionally, there were many side characters whose idiocy or personality in general pissed me off. For

example, a duke from another kingdom was trying to help Navier out. He gave her a love potion for her to give

to Sovieshu to win him back. However, when he tried to show the effects of the potion to Navier, he accidentally

fell in love with her, the cure he had being useless. This whole part of the plot was unnecessary and created

random unwanted romantic tension that was extremely awkward for readers. In addition, whenever the plot got

boring in later chapters, they would randomly bring this guy back into the picture. His whole character made me

mad, and the story would be better without him.

Although this webtoon is a fun read with an interesting plot (in the first hundred chapters), I believe there are

many aspects of it that could be so much better. I absolutely despise the chapters now as the author is just dragging

out the webcomic which should have ended when she got remarried. I would not recommend reading past her

remarriage if you end up reading the webtoon.

• Sarah Bijoy