Throughout the series, women and girls are kidnapped and enslaved as a tribute paid to the emperor. Additionnally, all the concubines are forced by the empress to drink something that harms their fertility, on a routine base. S1E7: an imperial soldier attempts to rape the main character, but someone rescues her. S1E45: the emperor performs marital rape to the main female protagonist while he is drunk. She has the duty to bear his child, but cleary did not physically consented it at that moment as she was screaming and desperately tried to push him away.