i feel like the ml deserves his happy ending... he was literally bad bc he was manipulated by outside sources (aka mc's dad, royal family, priests, and that snake woman) and bc he didn't know what love was until he lost it. like it was a classic miscommunication trope. could he have been a better father in the first life? yeah probably. but in his first life he was a (mentally) weak man who felt powerless
i feel like the ml deserves his happy ending... he was literally bad bc he was manipulated by outside sources (aka mc's dad, royal family, priests, and that snake woman) and bc he didn't know what love was until he lost it. like it was a classic miscommunication trope. could he have been a better father in the first life? yeah probably. but in his first life he was a (mentally) weak man who felt powerless