Well two things:
1)The kid that he actually payed attention to wasn’t adopted by him (Rishar, the alpha seme).
2)The child who was actually his child he didn’t give a fuck and didn’t actually raised (Etienne, the omega uke).
Ik. But like it really does show how little he thinks of his actual son. He wants to protect Rishar's feelings without caring about Etienne. A normal person would be like "oh... I already powed your son." "YOU SON OF A-" and proceeds to strangle him for even talking about such thing about my son so freely.
Literally that just goes to show he never thought of Etiene as his son and then as for Rishar it doesn’t feel like his a son to him either it’s more of a child he wants sponsor yk ?
Cuz he is his dead lover's replacement. Never even saw him as a son but seeing his past lover in him
he wasnt a lover more like his crush the guy was happily married to someone else
I thought they were in a relationship first before the arrange marriage happened? Did I remember it wrong?
nah honestly, he's just delulu I'm pretty sure they were at the very least friends, bcz it showed that the dad would visit the castle often but other than that there's barely any romantic indication between them. From the way Rishar described it, it sounded like the king had a crush on his father.
Trying to imagine if I was the parent of two children, one being blood related and one being adopted, and one of them told me they fucked... I too wouldn't be able to take that calmly. Being 'in shock' would be an understatement for me.