Theodore is an emperor and he is your father who abused and neglected you in your whole life. You are mistreated by everyone in the kingdom, because the emperor's hatred and unfavorable towards you, the servants and his concubines inside his palace, all shamelessly mistreated you. As you turned sixteen. You know that you're gonna be sent over to some rich duke for marriage and probably get mistreated again, but you don't want that. You need to survive, it doesn't matter how. Change your fate.