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I think I might be more interested in the backstory of the characters' parents... XD
Turns out I was right?! The ML's dad and the FL's foster dad were lovers?! And then the prince's maternal uncle had to ruin the prince's life over even more than he already had (through beatings since the prince was a child) by making him off the older brother of his beloved (the FL's biological father). I'm so angry at the former emperor, never watching out for any of his children!
The latest chapters make me think the ML's father (the Crown Prince) and Chloe's "legal" father Troy Langsher were two men secretly inlove with each other, at least until Chloe's dad realized what the ML's father did (OF COURSE). I think the flashback scene where the prince convinces Troy of his girlfriend Leona's betrayal in chapter 20 proves that the love interest that the Crown Prince mentions in chapter 17, that he managed to monopolize to himself (allegedly by manipulating them into getting disappointed on the "third wheel"), is Troy Langsher, and that the "third wheel" he managed to get out of his way is Leona (Troy's former lover who later married the prince and was the ML's mother). The name "Esther Penselors" in the letter of chapter 15 is probably a code name for "Hessel Orpenster", the name of the ML's dad the former Crown Prince (the two names are written with the same 15 letters, only in a different order)