nahh she is engaged with the man that play the board game with the emperor, but have to break their engagement bcs the empress choosing event, maybe she is jealous with how binee's father sacrifice his job for his wife but his fiance doesn't even do anything for her
Isn't it cannon that when the emperor died he was with a mistress? I think instead of being mad at the emperor himself she just chose an easy target to direct her anger onto, Binee's dad. "If he had been there to guard the emperor, he wouldn't have died" which is wild cause the dad specifically didn't go to take care of his pregnant wife. Think she's also jealous of how good he treated his wife back then when she was treated like shit.
I have a theory. What if the empress dowager had feelings for binees father? Then was *forced* to become empress and then witness the love of the man she wanted for his wife this the hate? On top of being treated like shit by her ex lmao.