I don’t know, I get what you’re saying but from zesters perspective in their last life, cassia didn’t love him, while he loved her, it’s likely that he was trying to provide for her because he felt guilty that she was given to him ‘against her will.’ Not that that makes his behavior okay, but it puts it into perspective.
Honestly as someone who did love his wife he could have actually at least paid attention to her in some form or maybe listened to her when she gave advice, Zester didn't do either of those. Dude put Cassia on a pedestal but didn't even know when she got deadly sick. I know Zester is definitely not a malicious guy in anyway but we have to admit that the first timeline's bad ending is at least 66% his own fault (his flaws got the better of him), obviously he couldn't have done anything for a terminal illness but he never communicated, didn't even take the time to know her (like Cassia can only get the opportunity to talk on her death bed with him, I doubt the dude even knew She liked pearls given how he desperately wanted for to give stuff to her even in their bad financial situation and she still never got a set), ignored it when he got Sound advice from his Butler .He does that even in this timeline when it comes to money, dude was a immovable brick about money compensation even when both Cassia and the butler who both have his best interests in their heart and one of them that he even loves - why does he blindly follow the instructions of this third while completely disregarding the advice of both the women he loves and his subordinate? It's because he has an extremely bad case of inferiority complex and that lead to some really bad consequences for all involved.
Though to be fair she didn’t communicate either, she didn’t tell him anything about being sick, and in the end of their previous life though he was raged he was obviously close to his children so I don’t think saying that he neglected his children to the end is a fair statement.
It didn't seem like he actually was close to his children to be honest and its also very obvious. Just a couple of chapter ago we saw how desperately his daughter tried to get him to just stop wasting away his resources, body and time (which he was at the time after his wife died to somehow bring him back to life) and even before her death he was working himself to the bone to try to earn his money in a very inefficient way and didn't stay in his territory for long duration at all. He was definitely an absent father and that's also the reason why Cassia especially requested him to spend time with his family, she wouldn't have had to make that request if he wasn't absent. I am sure Zester didn't do it intentionally and as I said I definitely don't think he is malicious but that still doesn't change the things that did happen.
As for her communication issues, it's been acknowledged both in the story by MC and by me too in my main post. Also its why I said Zester's contribution to their suffering was 66%, She and her terminal illness which nobody had control over contributed that other parts.
Fair enough, I disagree but that’s fine. The only thing I would say is it’s really a 50/50 they both were bad at communication they both let their biases ruin their relationship it was just in different ways, not to mention that the seemed ‘period’ that this is set in has the men earn the money for the house so it’s not like he really had a choice to go out and earn the money, and that on top of the guilt that he felt towards cassia which blinded him for sure. Not saying he shouldn’t have ignored her input on the money making aspect, but as far as I remember she really only took reigns of that in the second life no the first one, so again that’s not his fault and I don’t think it’s fair to say it was. I liked hearing your pov though!
Well, I am glad you enjoyed a different poverty from yours (●'◡'●)ﾉ
Good god, what did my auto correct do ??Σ( ￣□￣||)
Sorry, I meant perspective and not "poverty".
I like my puppy himbos as much as the next person but honestly I kinda agree with the daughter on this one (just not the getting Cassia together with Count Axion part though). A lot of the misery of the past life is Zester's fault, he has this habit of just not listening and not communicating about important things due to his inferiority complex. We even see that in this life when Cassia and the butler mentioned about Zester not getting enough compensation for going to battle from the viscount and even though he acknowledged Cassia as smarter than him he still resisted listening to her advice until she basically strong armed her way into the discussion (That would have been difficult for past life Cassia given how young she was when she married. Cassia definitely contributed to their communication problems but Zester's inferiority complex made is 4 times as worse). And given how the Butler has mentioned advising him about stuff like this multiple times where Zester didn't listen even in this life then logically he must have done that in his past life too, I can only guess how difficult the situation was in the past life when it was this difficult in this life.
And it doesn't help that after losing his wife in the past life the dude basically went mad and became obsessed with bringing his wife back to life and went on to neglect his own children the same way he neglected his wife when she was alive. He is lucky this is a fantasy setting because otherwise he would have mentally scarred everyone related to him due to his inferiority complex. Luckily he got a second chance and finally learned to listen to his wife when it matters and now we have a couple who are happy together, but the mental scars the their children are still bearing makes me sad.