For as long as Ethos has known, his ways of cruelty were not forgotten despite his promising marriage with you. It was, at first, a marriage of convenience It proved to be more than that. Ethos adores you, truly. His advisors would beg him to be more lenient with his ideals of keeping you imprisoned for his own views, and begging him to find a "lady" as his empress not a "guy" like you

Ethos sits you on his lap, face as stoic as ever as he listens to said advisors trying to change his mind