No it will actually work, Duke Roygar offed himself with the Gun Cedric gave him and given the honourable guy Cedric actually is - He will now try his very best to get the duchess out and to safety with her children and given how he has Tia who is a master schemer besides him, it's definitely going to work.
If you think about it, it's actually his majesty who fucked himself up due to his greed. The reason his majesty was so obsessed with not having an declared heir and having all the presumptive heir fight each other is because he still very much wanted to maintain his own power but with the death of grand duke, Cedric has become basically the actual heir even without any Declaration because Lawrence has no power. Now that the emperor is getting older and sicker, all the powers and nobles will shift towards Cedric which is something he absolutely cannot tolerate. This all happened because His Majesty cornered Grand Duke Roygar.
I see that now after 183 came out. This has been going on for so long I completely forgot about the gun. lol
Oh I definitely get that.
Yes, yes, of course... because it's not like the emperor ever did precisely that in the past, right? He definitely didn't beheaded his sister (Cedric's mother) despite being a princess of very royal blood. A punishment that was fabricated on false suspicions to boot. Must have been someone else, then.
Duchess Roygar's sacrifice means nothing now that Duke Roygar offed himself. He should've just took the blame, the emperor would at best imprisoned him for life since he has royal blood and he can't just kill him. Now her wife's not coming out of themat dungeon and their kids are basically orphans now. I feel bad for the Duchess, she stood up for what she loves and her husband just left her.