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I’m super grateful for the translation, but the translator’s note at the end of this last chapter is completely off.
Evil and stupid aren’t mutually exclusive. Daddy dearest’s evil might stem from his extreme stupidity, but he abandoned his wife who he knew was on borrowed time and confined her even in her own home. He abandoned his daughter from the moment she was born and when the only parent she ever knew died, he left her in the care of a woman he only knew horizontally.
He says he was focused on protecting the territory, but it seems like he didn’t bother to handle any of the duties that hold such a territory together. The way he was going, he could easily have come home from one of those hunting trips to find the place torn apart in a rebellion.
His actions say he never really cared about his wife, child or the county and did only the work he was comfortable with while fobbing off the rest as someone else’s problem.
Right!! Why make her pregnant in the first place when she's unwell tf ?
but bby aria is so cuteee huhu
I guess it's the only good thing he did u know he plant the seed that's all but MOTHER ALLANA MY ANGEL GREW THIS BABY FOR 9 MONTHS AND CARE FOR ARIA WITH ALL THE LOVE SHE COULD GIVE BEFORE SHE DIED
AIN'T NO WAY HIS SIDE OF STORY WOULD JUSTIFY HIS ACTIONS LIKE GIRL U THOUGH WE'LL PITY YOU? GO FUCK YOURSELF IS WHAT I WOULD SAY TO THAT BEARDED MAN
The story starts with the ml wanting a fake wife so he is free to live as he pleases. After being raised to be a perfect ducal heir (by parents who are introduced as kind and well meaning), he develops a personality that forces everyone else to comply with his whims wherever he can and sees no problem with this. Even his lover is someone he fell in love with because she wasn’t interested in him and treated him as an amusement. He threw aside his duties for someone who never seemed to even love him back.
I really liked the fl, as someone who saw through this behavior and decided that it simply wasn’t her problem. She accepted occasional annoyances in exchange for also living how she pleased, but as the story goes on, the ml shifts his interest to her. He invades her space with no consideration for her or their staff (Yes, I know it’s his house, but it isn’t his routine). He suddenly decides he loves his fake wife and of course she should simply love him back.
After seeing him one-sidedly alter their contract, and the fl only managing to tell him off for his bad eating habits instead of the way he treats people, I had to drop the story. I’m not interested in watching him get rewarded for his bs or the fl get forced into changing to suit him.