I'm a bit curious about what their relationship was in the books.

I'm a novel reader! Mannic has it backwards. Quoting the novel:
"She'd fallen in love with a maid and, despite her best efforts to suppress her feelings, ended up having an affair with the woman."
The implication in the following lines of the novel is that the maid left due to the power imbalance; Manaria being a princess and all. The "rape" thing is an invention of the manga which the anime kept, and an odd one as well considering the maid. comes back in act 2. and is mad at rae for the entire act for stealing manaria's attention.

Rae stilll thinks like she is playing a video game in which in order to achieve her objective, everyone and everything is disposable.

Couldn't have put it better.

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Lily herself recognized in a past chapter that Rae never actually turned her down, just politely brushed her affections off so that Lily could keep being useful to her.

I definitely missed that oops-

But it doesn't take away from my point. Poor girl got strung along so she could be used as a stepping stone

I'm sorry but I honestly never liked Lily and she always knew that Rae only liked Claire she never once led her on to make her think that she had any feelings for Lily at all anytime literally try to say she wanted to be her number one or even said she would be her mistress she continued to say she only likes Claire... So her saying she hates her is very delusional to me and I hope she's finally gone from the rest of the story

It's a bit more complicated than leading lilly on. She might've TOLD Lilly that she's only interested in Claire, but Rae also kind of just allowed Lilly to continue to pine after her- and when it was convenient, Rae took advantage of that relationship. Most notably, she did so to get access to the Tears Of The Moon and cure Yuu's curse. I gotta say, I didn't catch how messed up that was until Lilly herself pointed it out in this chapter.

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