Let me just say this to people in the comments trashing the king. The fact that ya'll are ...

I think they still dont know that he got raped when he was a child neither do i but i agree !

I mean I don't personally like him that much. But my dislikes towards him, is sth I just can't explain in words, it's not excessive, it's like mild unpleasant feeling I've got towards the king. And I think I've totally missed out on the r*pe part, I think I didn't pay attention.

It bothers me even more because if he was a woman, they'd be clamoring for her to swear off men and perfectly sympathetic when she wanted nothing to do with any of the male characters. It's the Abandoned Empress double standards all over again.

True, they would probably say," yOuR'e bEtTeR oFf aLoNe QuEn, u DoN't neEd nO mAn," that kind of bullshit.

Sorry, it's a spoiler but he was forced to marry an older woman and that woman raped him until she got pregnant which is fucked up. That's why I can understand his doubts towards mc

You should read the comments that literally said that they know his past but they still don't like how he's suspish of mc and I'm like, where's the brain? common sense? where is it? They just glossed over the part he was raped because he didn't believe her and I was just disgusted.

Jeez! Can't blame him. I think there was also a thing abt the previous queen (his wife) trying to drug him or sth? I think I might be mistaken, but, ye who can blame him. I mean I can't get rid of this unpleasantness, but can kinda sympathize with him, coz I went through sth familiar.

Haah! Some feminists they are.

Did whatever I said just now, make any sense? I'm so sorry.

don't worry, it made sense and true they probably consider themselves feminists but when it's a man who has the same struggle as the woman, it's suddenly crickets

I think you feel uneasy towards him because he neglected his child which is understandable that you feel that way. Because I know that even when he's got this trauma towards women but that doesn't mean he gotta treat his child, poorly, you know? It's like passing trauma to another due to his treatment towards Blanche

This is just so fucking disgusting. I really feel bad for many characters (not just this book) who are often called stupid, so lame, 'why isn't she standing up for herself', 'I wish she was more badass' etc. when the girl was fucking abused all her life. You think a person's trauma is so simple that it can go in when the king's wife suddenly acts nice. Yeah, you know she is a nice person cuz it's not even her anymore but another woman in her body. She has no clue what has happened to the king. The king has suffered the whole time. Sadly, though he may not hate Blanche, there are many who do cuz when they see the kid, he/she is reminded of the suffering they went through and the result of that and blatantly hate them or abandon them and I'm glad the king is not like that though he did neglect her.

No. If he treated her with love and care and then she went through the same thing he did (which he thinks is NORMAL) he'd be traumatizing her just like he was.

Blanche is also female. So even if his reaction was purely based on that and the fact she is a reminder of what happened to him his treatment of her is still completely understandable. He Isn't going beyond the traumatic reaction and taking his anger out on her in the slightest.

What do you mean no? lmao, I told the other person that them feeling uncomfortable towards the king is understandable since he treated his child poorly and that he's just giving his daughter a different kind of trauma of her own and him having trauma doesn't justify his neglect towards Blanche. Did you even read my comment carefully? Ghorl, read it again.

When people say women are better off alone without some man after experiencing a traumatic incident like the ML did here, what they're really saying is that the woman better not fall for the other person again or they'll pretty much claim the woman is 's*****' and deserved whatever happened to her. Victims don't have to react a specific way to get our 'approval'. But that's what *women* are told, most often.

And the king knows that Blanche is a child and has nothing to do with what her mother did. Like this was already established in the previous chapters. He has nothing against Blanche it's just he has the typical father trope in isekai shoujo that he's emotionally stunted towards his daughter. I'm just pointing out, that him, neglecting his child is still wrong.

Uhm, ghorly, I'm pointing out the double standards that is happening towards a man and a woman in this site. We already know the semantics that you're explaining, we're talking about when a man is said to have been raped, people gloss over that fact because he's not doing what they want him to do, like what's fucking happening with people trashing him for doubting mc. They literally said they think he's an asshole for not believing mc even knowing his traumatic past. That was literally the point, idk why you brought an entirely different topic into the table lmao

And you don't need to tell me the struggles of being a woman and understanding women's struggles in different periods of time since I'm a woman myself lol

Also, whoever paid enough attention to the whole story while reading, there have already been a few moments hinting at the king's traumatic past and anyone with logical thinking could imagine what exactly had happened.

Also, I'm sorry but as long as he doesn't directly abuse Blanche he gets a pass with me. Psychological trauma is something that every person approaches in a different way, and whatever you need to do to be able to keep on functioning despite it, I applaud it, as long as you don't directly hurt other people. Blanche might miss her father's love but in the society she lives in, that is not really such an unseen thing. Aristocracy and royalty children usually are raised by nannies, and parental love hardly ever features in the equation. The fact he was rational enough to separate Blanche from the crime done to him in her favor and that not only does he not abuse her, but makes sure she is perfectly provided for and protected is commendable, especially if he was really raped when young like some spoilers are saying. I'm sorry but the "he's a shitty father" card doesn't roll here, because he's not even a shitty father. He's an imperfect human who is constantly scared and in a defensive state because his trauma is not only something he cannot get rid of, but something that gets reaffirmed every day of his life whenever somebody talks to him about taking another wife or having an heir. I wonder if the people insulting him can even imagine that, living with the constant knowledge that eventually you will be forced to relive your trauma probably more than once, or risk jeopardizing or even losing the life you have worked so hard to build.