This is not a story, the sole purpose is rape fetish.
Also, rape fetish is an uncomfortable truth comments sectioners, there are a lot of people who literally play it out in bed, of course they like to get on here and read this. This is for a specific audience.
It always makes me cringe when reading these when they say something about the dick smelling or something. In this one the "smells racey"... Gross.
Kinda disappointed we only got that one scene with the knight, I wonder if there's more?
I hate that he's terminally ill, it makes me sad. I'm hoping he gets treated and gets better somehow even though they said it's impossible. Rintaro is giving me hope that there's some sort of way to fix it.
I'm kinda worried this might end up bittersweet, with him dying and entrusting her to Rintaro or something...
Garam is in the wrong for just running away and trying to break up to protect Jaehyuk (from himself). Jaehyuk is in the wrong for cutting off everyone and everything around him.
You can see that it's getting concerning for Garam and that he blames himself. He thinks that he needs to break up with him or Jaehyuk is going to isolate himself and suffer for it.
Jaehyuk wanting to date in the open doesn't seem to be the real issue here, if it were then Jaehyuk offering to keep it secret just now would've been the fix. Instead Garam doubled down. Because the issue is Jaehyuk's mindset and approach to his connections in life.
I think it's going to take some growth on Jaehyuk's side before Garam comes back.
Key things he's done shitty:
- Junhan and Sanghyuk went out and got drunk, Sanghyuk passed out and Junhan went to take him home by driving his car, but hit somebody and ran away. Sanghyuk woke up and thought he was drunk driving and ran someone over. Junhan was building his career and didn't want the scandal so he let Sanghyuk think he did it. He justified it in his head by saying Sanghyuk's family is loaded, so they'll be able to handle it.
- Junhan was a bully in high school. His "bullying" of Habin is a grey area, I don't personally fault him for trying to bully him to get rid of his stalker, but his bullying of the innocent chubby kid that he made a target of the bully group was less justified.
Besides the above, he's just sort of an asshole to many people. That seems to be his real personality, he's always "playing nice" to everyone at school. He says that he learned from his childhood to be mean before others can be mean to him and he loses their love. So how he naturally acts is kinda mean as a defence/cope mechanism, how he presents is acted. The facade starts to crack as he's put under pressure by Habin and his father's reappearance and he snaps at Sanghyuk a few times.
Now going into all this:
His "friendship" with Sanghyuk is part of the act. He doesn't really care about him, this is made clear as early as Chapter 2, when the group seems confused on why Junhan hasn't contacted Sanghyuk despite the life event that just happened to him, the car accident. They tell him "he's your best friend" and he pretty casually thinks "Oh yeah, I forgot about him with everything going on". He doesn't seem to feel guilty. Junhan actually goes into this to say that it's always actually been Sanghyuk sticking to *him*. Sanghyuk kept pestering him to do the short film and the only reason he did it was for the benefits until it got him into the spotlight and he saw how much money he could earn off of his acting. But all he cares about is the money, he has no passion for acting, he doesn't want to learn about it or get better. He just wants to do what he's doing and get paid. He's even a bit annoyed having to keep pretending to care about acting. He doesn't want to have to deal with the acting group or practice.
So from his perspective he helped Sanghyuk with his short film, ended up being recognized for his talent and discovered a way he could make money and then Sanghyuk convinced him to go to acting school by promising a discount on tuition and an opportunity with someone he knows, which resulted in Junhan becoming an influencer at the woman's advice and landing much more opportunities from other clothing stores.
Junhan was in a position where he had nothing and had to accept whatever scraps he could get, so yes, he used Sanghyuk. That's their real relationship. Even as early as Ch 1 at the bar you see him envious of Sanghyuk's wealth when he sees the car. He's in a position where he has nothing and can't afford to care about other people's feelings.
What he did to Sanghyuk is pretty obviously black, not grey, but most people don't care about fucking over what, connection-wise, is essentially a stranger you don't care about. I feel like people are viewing this as "Junhan fucking over his best friend", but I think that would actually be worse. Though this is still bad enough even to a stranger. The fact that it's a rich stranger clearly also helps dull the care for what Sanghyuk's possibly going to go through when he decides to frame him.
Onto the bullying, he says in plain wording that he took to bullying because it was something he could control while he could do nothing about his father and his circumstances at the time. He had just had his savings stolen by his father and that made him nearly attack him in his sleep. Not a justification, but a reason, and the reason make him more sympathetic. For me that equates to not necessarily wanting his downfall. I'm fine with him having to own up to Sanghyuk that he's the one who crashed the car, but I feel like he's been through enough and deserves to keep what he worked for. I view that separately to that. He put Sanghyuk through a hard time and he should be held accountable, but I don't feel like that equates to that he should have his life ruined brutally. Which takes me to spoilers:
I've seen that he has his life completely ruined and ends up basically pathetic like his father... This is so sad to me. Like, after being abandoned by his mother and having to deal with his father, after he's managed to achieve some level of success via his own talent, now his "comeuppance"/"karma" is *that*? It's disappointing. I really liked Habin's "I'll always be there for you" approach to winning him over up to this point. I could also see some hope there, considering Junhan literally fucked him twice. It felt like maybe that sincerity was starting to get through. But apparently Habin ends up just exposing him and ruining his life to isolate him and then they live happily ever after with Junhan none the wiser that it was all orchestrated by Habin.
I'm going to be frank. The bullying of that kid was shitty, but it's in the past... He's even grown out of it, saying earlier in that he can't just punch Habin for the Stalking like he used to because "they were just kids at the time". Not that the guy would be in the wrong if he ever felt like holding Junhan accountable, I guess I'm just making the point that it hasn't come to that. Seems time moved on and so did everyone. To me the main thing here is definitely framing Sanghyuk, which I think he deserves to have to face, but maybe in a personal 1 on 1 where Sanghyuk decides what to do? Habin is just using the situation.
As far as his bullying of Habin, the only time where I feel he was in the wrong was when he was an asshole when Habin confessed to him. There was no history there and no knowledge of him being a stalker, he was mean for no reason calling him disgusting. After that is all a reasonable reaction to being hardcore stalked. He even kissed him while he was sleeping... He woke up being kissed in a closed off classroom by the guy he rejected.
I really just want his dad to like... Die. I don't care what happens to him seeing him showing up and tormenting him again like this. He's even going to his school, trying to extort 200 million out of him... He's disgusting. I hope he dies slowly in a fire and it depicts it.
Idk, I guess the ending I wanted was a happy one for everyone. One where Habin won him over with his (crazy) sincerity rather than manipulating him and ruining his life. I really liked how he was consistently telling him "I like you" and you could see it was having an effect of some kind. There was progress. I was starting to think maybe he would actually fall for him normally and get over the stalking and then the stalking would stop, but no...
Summary (of the 25 chapters so far):
Cheol (top) and Minyoung (bottom) are the couple. They both have very tragic pasts, Cheol was neglected and abused by his father and Minyoung is an orphan with problems connecting with people. Both are mentally fucked up because of this. Cheol full on age-regressing at one point. Minyoung noticed Cheol's silent abuse, Cheol noticed Minyoung's lack of connection with the people around him. They bonded over these hidden truths and eventually started dating. Minyoung became very protective of Cheol because he saw him being abused and saw the look on Cheol's face occasionally that gave it away. He made a vow to himself that he'd grow stronger to protect him because he couldn't at the time.
The whole crux of the story is that at some point back in high school, Minyoung outed Cheol to his father. We don't yet have the context as to why. This resulted in Cheol's father exploding on Cheol, Cheol breaking up with Minyoung to please his father, and then living a fake "straight" (he says "normal") life and marrying a woman.
The story starts later on in life, Cheol's wife has just divorced him after years of him living like a husk of a man, running away from his gay feelings for Minyoung. He's had a certified crash out. He fell into gambling, tanked a cafe business he'd been given, etc. His father ruined his life. Minyoung is back now that they're divorced. He'd been watching and waiting for the ruse to end.
Minyoung never gave up on him, he'd apparently been driven to the point of wanting to kill Cheol for abandoning him, but when he went to do it (yes, they're both crazy at points), he found out Cheol still loved him because he said Minyoung's name in his sleep. So he just sort of let Cheol do what he was going to do in this effort to please his dad, biding his time and building himself up to be able to get revenge for Cheol on his dad and younger brother. Cheol's father favored the younger brother because he had an inferiority complex towards his older brother and Cheol looks like his brother. It's Cheol's uncle that becomes his father when Cheol runs away from his father. Minyoung is back now because the fake life is over and now he can protect Cheol from his father and let him live as himself. But there's a lot of denial Cheol is working through throughout the story so far, that's what all the anger sex is about. He refuses to accept that he loves Minyoung still, but very, very unsuccessfully. He's getting there, the biggest step was him confronting his father and it left him age regressed for awhile. But that first step is huge.
Cheol's ex-wife gets that there's something going on that has absolutely just fucked Cheol and left him stagnant, but she doesn't know what. She tells him that he needs to stop being a coward and make a move for himself or he's going to be left by everyone he loves. That he needs to "grow up", and this is spot on, he's stuck in his childhood. This is what spurs Cheol to try and confront his dad. Cheol ends up beat up, so Minyoung goes and beats his dad's ass. Things are different now, they're not high schoolers anymore. Minyoung has just "come out" (not about being gay, about being in love with Cheol and that he's going to do anything to protect him) to Cheol's real father (the uncle) and now here we are. Side note: seems like Cheol's ex-wife might have a thing for Minyoung's secretary? They had a moment where they both looked stunned by each other.
At this point we're just waiting for the outing loose end to be tied up, which age-regressed Cheol hinted would be resolved if Minyoung would apologize. I'm sure that will come soon.
As I was reading, I kept having the thought that the intensity didn't match the happenings, like they were overreacting to things, but this is resolved once it starts going into the abusive father. The outing was so damning *because* he was outed to his abusive father. His father was just that bad. As was the extent of the psychological damage he'd already been subject to up to that point. The reason Minyoung makes crazy yandere faces all the time is because Cheol's past was just *that* tragic to him. It became his entire life's purpose to protect him. He's literally ride or die.
He was just mildly surprised and then got into it, went back for more of his own accord and then ended up asking him to date... He'd had a crush on him since high school... The whole "rape" starts with him having a wet dream about him and waking up with an erection after saying his name in his sleep...
If you keep reading you'll see how he reacts when someone is actually trying to rape him and he doesn't want it, the difference is pretty clear. When the other dude is actually attempting to rape him he fights him off until help arrives.
It's another case of the comments seeing him say "wait, stop" or something and immediately saying rape. Guys, people can be overwhelmed too, that doesn't make it rape. What makes it rape is whether or not the person themselves wants it... He was a virgin, he was just overwhelmed. That's like, the whole thing. He comes to terms with his feelings. But he did enjoy the sex and want more.
The story did a very good job at getting across the seme's lack of understanding/his emotional stunting from his bad upbringing. I got the vibe even before that was actually brought up as a plot point. He's just awkward at expressing himself and his jealousy, but he's entirely willing to listen and work on it.
Idk what the comments are about, it was a really satisfying ending in my opinion. I think people don't get that *they were in love the whole time*. He hurt her, but they're husband and wife, they're in love and he has a right to try to right his wrongs if she's willing to allow it. Plus so much of it was terrible misunderstandings in his intentions (because he sucked at expressing himself and also just had a terrible personality at first). My thought was that if so many people hadn't actively gotten in the way when she ran away, they would've made up. But I also understand Francis wanting to free her from Edric. He didn't realize Edric really loves her and Edric didn't know how to treat her right and took her for granted. This sort of needed to happen, but the amount of time she was gone is unfortunate because I think this could've all been sorted out much earlier if she hadn't been being lied to and Oz hadn't hidden the letter. Which again, I get is because she also thought he didn't care about her. Everyone around them thought he didn't care about her, which really just shows how badly the optics were. He really needed this wakeup call. Him watching her live her life happily in the village showed him what she wants and also highlighted even more what she'd been doing for him though.
Francis was a really nuanced character, I'm very satisfied with how he ended up, as platonic family with her and Jade. It was fitting. All he wanted was family, he realized he could have that even if she wasn't his wife. That's why he had the realization that she hadn't betrayed him. With her character development, I'm looking forward to seeing Rosaline and him work it out. Since he did love her.
It hasn't been said explicitly yet, but I think that what Edric did for her was allow her a leadership position where she no longer has to worry about which man she's attached to, and in the absence of that she's now just wanting love and looking back to Francis. She has some making up to do, since she treated him badly in their relationship even though they were childhood friends.
I can see what people mean about the pacing, I guess, since suddenly everyone is nice to her when she comes back, but I think it's explained by the story if you think about it. Everyone thought she *died*. Like, I was a little thrown off by the crown princess being nice to her all the sudden, till I realized it's not really "all the sudden", it's been three years, a funeral and the Duke being a suicidal mess for those three years. It's understandable for mood/opinion to have changed in light of these events and time having passed. The evil mother (Ada, I think?) is gone, so no more pressure on the staff/no more machinations in general since she was sort of responsible for like all aspects of Mellie's failed life as an aristocrat.
I'm satisfied with Edric's growth and the reveal of his feelings. I don't justify his behavior up till then, it was trash, but I'm happy for them that he'll spend the rest of his life making up for it.
The story was decent and I think the comments are a bit over the top about the threat letter. It was like less than a chapter of miscommunication because in the moment she was scared and wanted to protect Kassel so she tried to distance herself. She very quickly realized her mistake and told him everything next chapter and now everyone knows the truth and all that's left is to find the one who cursed her.
Not asking about the rape, gang rape, etc. I'm curious about why the summary says Ian is "obsessed with Jayden"? We see that he's done this to many guys, that seems to be what the porn videos are about. They're different villains he has done this to, I'm assuming. He gave one of the three dudes a glare for some reason, what's that about?
(I haven't read the novel or seen any spoilers)
Remember that we've literally seen in Jaemin's head a few times, we've seen thought bubbles of him gushing over him. It's not fake, he's just having a mental breakdown.
He's just freaking out because he thought there's no time left. He's hurt because he thinks he's going to be abandoned, like none of it mattered since he's just going to walk away after this since "it's the last day".
They'll have some communication and everything will get sorted out. This is definitely just a final hump. Idk how *long* the hump will be drawn out, but I don't believe for a second what he said at the end there. It doesn't make sense. I started this after reading the comments, knowing he's going to betray him in some way, but that's not the vibe I got while reading to the end. The story seemed to me to be pretty direct in what's actually going on if you just pay attention to what Jaemin is saying. He's upset at the thought of MC just walking away.
Idk, just what I got from him and what he said. Along with some things the friends have said. He has had a crush on him since highschool.
I suspect that there will be an "everyone happy" ending since she just realized the force is a thing and knows it's effecting him. Might be the same for his father, given the same applied to Antes and his parents.
This starts off with a typical transmigration beginning. Modern girl gets transported into a book she read and wants to go home. The book is a dark tragedy, she's possessed the villainess of the story who kidnaps and then brainwashes the third prince, Magnus, using drugs that shatter his mind and her own unique dream controlling powers to repeatedly give him nightmares to control him. She turns him into her "beast", he no longer remembers his past and thinks he's her property. MC wakes up after Illiana has already done this to Magnus. She decides to give him the antidote for the drugs and put distance between them for a time by doing priest training for 2 years. She knows that he will escape and become Emperor, falling in love with the FL, Cheryl, and making her Empress. She just wants him to be happy and thinks the story must progress for that.
In the 2 year gap, Magnus leaves the cabin he was trapped in to try and find Illiana. To do this he decides to become Emperor and sign a contract with the powerful darkness spirit, Nox, to gain enough power to fulfill his ambitions. He sets out thinking he just wants revenge on Illiana for abandoning him when she left for the priest training. He stumbles upon Cheryl when he escapes and she nurses him to health like expected. Illiana finishes her training and returns to the capital to fulfill her role in the plot, Magnus is supposed to see her at the ball she's been invited to. Magnus invited all the nobles to find Illiana. There's some plot threads added in where it's suggested that Illiana was abused by her father, but there's a weird discrepancy between what it looks like and how he acts towards her. Anyways, Magnus finds her at the ball and more plot threads are revealed that Magnus and Cheryl seem to be working together. She knows he's looking for the woman who kidnapped him. He tears her away from her father against their wills and declares she will be his Empress, she just sort of goes with it after some time because she knows what Illiana did to him. There's some internal struggle for her because she is not Illiana, but knows all that happened. So she's irritated at the unfair treatment, but also understanding and giving in. He wraps her in complete sensory deprivation, she discovers her dream power because of this and meets Raphael and Billy in Raphael's dream. This is how she gets through without breaking. Her and Magnus get closer as time passes. He's adamant he wants revenge, but his actions don't always match. He seems confused.
Illiana is Empress-to-be for awhile, she becomes friends with Cheryl assuming Magnus will end up with her, though Cheryl tells her she's not interested in Magnus and is actually in love with the duke. While she's here she starts looking into the dark land because she thinks it will help her return home. She notices that Illiana's feelings for Magnus seem to be growing stronger in her, she gets very overwhelmed seeing others with Magnus. She starts to feel like she's becoming Illiana. Eventually she starts getting memories back and, turns out, she wasn't abused by her father, she was crazy and self harmed to protest her mother. Illiana was a religious zealot who believed her mother was a demon because the empire is prejudiced against the "dark land". Her parents couldn't get through to her. She became depressed because she thought she is a demon because of her blood and felt she couldn't be saved. She met a priest who accidentally implanted the idea in her head that if she, as a demon, killed a demon, that god would be appreciative of her. So she plans to kill her family. That's how the original story ends how it does. She plans to die with her family to save herself in God's eyes, her family is killed in front of her, but instead of dying like she wants to, Magnus kept her alive in a recreation of the cabin and she dies of starvation in there.
What else was revealed by her regaining her memories? That the modern girl is actually Illiana's reincarnation. She happened to find her own story and her new life experiences made her able to recognize how unfair she was. She questioned why Illiana did that. When she died, the god Regneva took her soul and decided to send her back into her last life to change the story. Regneva took interest in how she'd changed from one life to the next and how her new clarity made her question "Illiana"'s actions. MC falls in love with Magnus herself, but struggles with accepting it, thinking he plans to torture her for revenge.
Illiana's father sends her a letter with a picture of the cabin, letting her know Magnus rebuilt it. She thinks he's still planning to torture her, but he'd changed his mind. Cheryl had been talking with him and made him realize his feelings for Illiana. That it's not just revenge. She runs away with the help of her father and some dark landers via a portal to the dark land made by her mother. Turns out the dark land is just a normal place and the narrative is actually the opposite of reality, they're actually holding the darkness back in Sidus. It's just expanding because of the dark god sealed there. She makes up with her parents there and decides to speak with Magnus once more, she learns that the ending of the original timeline where her parents died was just an illusion her parents created to give her what she wants. Her parents knew she was trying to kill them, but they loved her and pretended to die because she was not able to be reasoned with. Iliana realizes the depths of her parents' love for her. Magnus blazes a trail into the dark land looking for her and ends up waking up the dark god in Sidus. Regneva reveals that Magnus never wanted her to die, even in the original timeline. That he despaired when he found out. She realizes that she misunderstood things. That he did actually love her even then. She uses her dream powers to reach him and break him free and then Regneva takes the dark god away and brings light back to the land. Cheryl and the Duke are in love, he is finally forced to confront his own feelings for her in the chaos. Billy and Raphael are meeting in reality now.
First and foremost, if you're disgusted by incest vibes in fiction then this one isn't for you. They aren't blood related, but grew up calling each other brothers because they only had each other. Seungdo saved Yegeon from the orphanage director and raised him himself. Same with rape, it's pretty plentiful in this... But there IS a story under there and it's sad...
Seungdo (MC) is an orphan who's raised his brother Yegeon (ML) since they were both in the orphanage. The director of the orphanage was a pedophile, Seungdo protected Yegeon from him by putting himself in the way. When the director started looking at Yegeon he took Yegeon and ran away from the orphanage. Eventually Seungdo met this bar owner guy, real piece of shit, that tried to get him into prostitution and drugs. Seungdo was really young at the time, basically an impressionable teenager. The bar owner was attracted to him and wanted to trick him into sex. He told the guy he wouldn't work there at first, but then Yegeon needed tuition, so Seungdo agreed to "work" there (prostitution) and let the bar owner take his virginity and train his body for sex with men. He got Seungdo addicted to drugs so he'd stay there too.
Backstory out of the way. By the time the story starts, Seungdo has already stopped working at the bar, though he is still sleeping with men for money. The story opens with him having sex with a man for money. He gets a text from the bar owner, who is trying to get him to come back, he tells him that he has the drugs and Seungdo agrees to do one more job for the drugs. Turns out that the client was actually Yegeon, who was trying to see if his brother was still working at the bar. He knows that Seungdo has been whoring himself out for his sake since they were young and he's trying to catch him in the act so he can bring him back.
Seungdo has MAJOR self esteem issues after having whored himself out and given his tattoos/general way of life. He wants Yegeon to have a normal life, but feels like he's a stain on Yegeon's life, so when he's caught he decides to try and leave his life right then and there. He tells Yegeon to leave him alone and that he's living like that because he wants to. That he likes drugs and sleeping with men, he wants Yegeon to forget him and leave him behind. Yegeon doesn't know what to do, so he says "then I'll do it" and ravishes him while Seungdo protests and ends up giving him higher quality drugs himself so he won't go back to the bar. This starts their sexual relationship. There's a misunderstanding on Seungdo's part that persists for a bit that he has corrupted Yegeon and that's why he's suddenly gay and giving him drugs. He thinks, because he's a stain on his life, he has corrupted him. He eventually realizes that Yegeon just cares for him the same way he cares for Yegeon, that's why he took on the sex and drugs role, since Seungdo was saying he wants that.
The romance aspect is a bit confusing. It's hard to say if they had feelings for each other beforehand or if they just ended up in a sexual relationship because of what Seungdo said to Yegeon when he got caught working at the bar. It's implied that Yegeon at least had feelings, because he says something along the lines of that "I used to hate it when it was said that we are strangers, that we don't share blood, but now I'm actually glad it's the case because I can stop acting like your little brother". He's now glad that they aren't related because they can be together without that being an issue. It's also said that Yegeon wanted to always be together with Seungdo, and that's said in a context where marriage is being compared. Seungdo says that Yegeon feels the same as him, which could mean Seungdo also had feelings for him. Actually that would explain the pang he feels when he sees Yegeon talking with a woman at work.
Seems like they were "brothers" because they lived together and took care of one another, but eventually it became more for both of them, but they were too scared to break the status quo/really look at that head on until things were broken.
Has anyone read ahead to know what happens between Genas and the Empress? Does she get kicked out? Do they remain together? If so, does it end up being consensual or is she crazy the whole time? I'm expecting some character development from her, a lot of her jealousy seems to stem from her misunderstanding that he loved Enoch's mother. Even though in reality she was raping him and he just didn't resist because she was pitiful. I don't think she understands the relationship between the brothers tbh, she thinks he views him like a son because he loved the mother when really it's that they both survived living with a mentally ill person that traumatized them both. She was the saddest thing he'd ever seen and her saddest moment was her dying pitifully and asking him to take care of her son... Or am I forgetting something? I don't think he ever said he loved her? But the empress thinks it's because of Enoch's eyes. Like Genas is seeing his "first love's" eyes. He cried when she raped him that first time, but I also feel like maybe now after all this time he might not hate her? Like he knows she's obsessed with him. Idk, just a feeling. Will probably age like milk. This could totally end up being her being the next "big bad", with the main characters patching things up and ousting her together.
She doesn't realize that him using magic to instantly teleport to her is a sign... She even just mentioned that they're the magic pillar of support! He's like "Don't you dare marry! But also, let me adopt you into my family as my daughter". ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ
Her accidentally acing mother's test was hilarious too, she really came there prepared to save some innocent girl from her son! Both parents are like "my son is trash".
I can't wait for this to come to light.
Also, she's so worried about her commoner background, which seems like it's already taken care of with her new grandfather (and really her family in general).
Hopefully he learns to feel emotions right and learns right and wrong, right now he seems to just be pathetic towards everyone, even his fellow students, and he seems to just be obsessed with her. He's emotionally at Claude's level, arguing with him about how she loves him the most. Maybe being around him will help him learn? I think it's just heading towards him spiraling out of control so far tbh...
The point of an earlier scene, the one where Dietrich is revealed to be alive to Wilhelm, was for Rein to rest if Wilhelm cares about Dietrich and whether or not he killed him in cold blood. His reaction was to draw his blade wondering how he's still alive. This confirmed for Rein that Wilhelm never cared for him and killed him in cold blood.
Flash forward and now the story is that he didn't care at first and then ended up feeling guilty and changing his mind but was too late to save him. He wasn't lying when he said he didn't kill him or when he was crying about his death. The first scene doesn't really make much sense in this new context, but I guess he was just too shocked? It's now exploring how deadpan he can react even when he's looking at his son and thinking "he's so adorable", so maybe the reaction didn't match the inside or maybe he was just too far gone at the time because of his estrangement with Rein at the time. He was very mentally broken at the time.
Honestly surprised he's not just a psychopath that was faking emotion at times, that's what it seemed like at the start, middle and late game. The happy ending is nice though, I'm glad everyone is happy.