No, this is how it goes:
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1) Prince Hessel Orpenster, the long haired blond guy (the ML's father) never got to be emperor: he died before ever getting to the throne (so, the emperor that the ML overthrew was his own grandfather, Hessel's father who outlived Hessel).
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2) In his youth, the ML's father, prince Hessel Orpenster (the long haired blond guy) was just an imperial prince who was NOT supposed to ever be in line for the throne, because he had an older half-brother who was the current crown prince, and was supposed to be the next emperor. Hessel Orpenster was just a younger prince who fell inlove with Troy Langsher (the MC's bio uncle, who later in ended up raising the mc as if she was his own daughter).
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3) Hessel wanted Troy Langsher for himself, so he secretly made it look like Troy's girldriend had betrayed him, in order to get them to break up. However, by this time Hessel's maternal uncle, Duke Retentor, had already forced Hessel to have a secret illegitimate child with someone else (that child was the 2nd ML).
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4) Duke Retentor, wanted Hessel to become the next emperor. In order to do that, they needed to get rid of Hessel's older half-brother, who was next in line for the throne. So Duke Retentor forced Hessel to get rid of him by falsely framing both him and Troy Lansgher's eldest brother (the mc's bio dad) as traitors who had schemed against the empire.
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4) To hide what they had done, prince Hessel killed Troy Langsher's eldest brother (the mc's bio dad), too, but made Troy Langsher also believe his older brother had indeed been plotting against the empire (though it was false). Troy Langsher thought Hessel had been the one who saved the rest of his family from being executed for treason along with the eldest brother, so he started acting as Hessel's "aid", and took Hessel's illegitimate son (the 2nd ML) under his wing.
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5) After both Hessel's and Troy Lansgher's older brothers died falsely accused as "traitors", Hessel was able to replace his own older brother as the "new" crown prince (and next in line for the throne) while Troy Langsher married his own belated eldest brother's girlfriend, who was pregnant, in order to be able to pass his daughter (the MC) as his own child. Hessel in turn married Troy Langsher's "betrayer" ex girlfriend at some point, and they had a son of their own (the ML).
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6) Troy Langsher, not knwoing what prince Hessel had done to his eldest brother, acted as his aide for years. Their respective children (the MC and the ML) met and played together as children.
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7) Years later, one day, Troy Langsher FINALLY discovered what Hessel had done to his eldest brother, but Hessel attacked him in a fury. The 2nd ML killed Hessel to protect Troy, and Troy took the blame for it. Then Troy made the 2nd ML run away and take the kid ML with him.
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8) Troy's older sister married the then emperor (Hessel's father) and they had a daughter, the baby princess, who is the mc's much younger maternal cousin.
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9) The ML at some point reunited with Hessel's (his father's) old uncle, Duke Retentor, who was also his own great grand-uncle, and grew up believing the Langshers had betrayed and killed his father, prince Hessel.
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10) The ML, fooled into thinking Troy Langsher had betrayed and killed his father (prince Hessel) out of sheer greed, spent years planning his revenge against Troy. With his grand-uncle, Duke Retentor's help, he faked another identity to be able to meet the MC again, become her fiance, and use her to secretly gather info against her (adoptive) father, Troy Langsher. But he fell inlove with the MC. Meanwhile, Troy Langsher knew exactly who he was and what he was plotting, yet he and his still-living brothers still decided to along with it, because they wanted to put an end to that endless series of tragedies.
Ohhhhhhhhhh~ thank you!! I finally understand
Wow thank you for this. Your reading comprehension is amazing. Or did you read the novel or something?
This is very detailed and its not complicated. Im starting to get the picture now
But can you explain the part where the 2nd ML resuced the ML kid. I think it was chaotic at that time
Who started thr fire or something? Was it the duke? Or was it Troy? Thanksss
Well, the fire that killed the Langshers was probably started by the 2nd ML, because in chapter 2 he explains he needs a fire in order to be able to fake Chloe's death: if he wanted to prevent people from finding out he had switched Chloe with the corpse of the *real* Marie Edante (who had already committed suicide), he needed the corpse to get damaged beyond recognition, and only a fire could do that (...now, whether the 2nd ML knew the Langsher brothers would take advantage of that fire to commit suicide, themselves, as well... that is something I don't know for sure).
As for how and why the 2nd ML rescued the child ML, after Hessel's death: we know the 2nd ML rescued the child ML because in chapter 16 the adult ML asks him why he did it, and we see a flashback where, at some known point after Hessel's murder, the 2nd ML was escaping while carrying the unconscious ML out of the Langsher house, only to actually bump into Troy Langsher while escaping... and that Troy Langsher let them go, ordering the 2nd ML never to return. To get the gist of what happened in the time between Hessel's death and that escape scene, we're given the flashbacks about it, at the end of chapter 22 and the beginning of chapter 23:
1) After the 2nd ML killed Hessel to save Troy Langsher, there was certainly chaos and while there were rumors, most people didn't know for sure who had killed Hessel at first. There was an investigation going, and most people thought it had to have been an assassin, or something. That's why the child ML who was Hessel's son (and who had come to the Langsher home with Hessel, on that day) had no reservations extending his stay at the Langsher house for months on end, after his father's murder, and even several months after finishing his father's funeral.
2) During the months that the child ML stayed with the Lanshers, after his father's death, Chloe's aunt, the 5th empress (who later was baby princess Sylvia's mother), was thinking of nothing else other than how to get rid of him... In chapter 22 there is a flashback where this aunt even says to her brother, Troy, that since the child ML had only been obssessively looking at Chloe during his own father's entire funeral, that was enough proof that that the child ML was dangerous because he would turn out just like his father: the type who obsessed over the person they liked to the point of being dangerous (the aunt believed that, just as Hessel, the boy's father, father had obsessed over her brother Troy, to the point of causing him harm, the same could end up happening between the boy and Chloe, later... *And REALLY, was that woman forseeing the future, or what*).
3) The aunt needed proof to show her brothers that she was right about the level of the child ML's obsession with their niece, so, in order to get that proof, she schemed to taunt the child ML to prove his "devotion for Chloe" by agreeing to drink poison. The child ML proved her right, and willingly drank it, but he survived it because the aunt had deliberately given him a non-lethal dose, since she hadn't been trying to kill him, she had just just wanted to have proof of the extent of the boy's obsession.
4) It is after this, that comes the flashback in chapter 1, where Chloe says the child Luke (the child ML) had begun acting "strange": the child ML wasn't allowed to see Chloe, and so he refused to eat, while the aunt told Chloe not to go see him because he was "sick"... and we can infer this scene happened months after the poison drinking scene, because now the aunt was already heavily pregnant with the unborn baby princess Sylvia.
5) Then comes the scene in chapter 16, where the 2nd ML sneaks the unconscious child ML out of the Langsher house, bumps into Troy Langsher, and Troy orders him to escape taking the child ML with him, never to return. In chapter 31, the 2nd ML confirms he has always served the ML bc Troy ORDERED him to do so.
Nah, I didn't read the novel, I just re-read this webtoon a few times.
Omg its amazing how your long explanation clarifies some parts of the manhwa that confused me. Its like your stitching the relevant parts to make a clear summary.
Thank you for taking the time to write this explnation! Your reading comprehension and your patience is amazing. Im sure you do very well in school and Im sure youll do well if youre going to make/write a research/dissertation paper in the future. Good luck to you!
you’re fucking amazing i need you to explain everything to me all the time
like this is the level of detail i need
Previous Emperor (long haired) was a yandere and killed MC's bio father and also attempted to kill (which later commited suicide) bio father's brothers, and stole bio father's lover (ML's mother) and also married his sister (the princess's mother) because he wants him to be isolated and depend on him??? So who is 2nd ML's mother??? What's uppp with the witch?? Does she have a power to produce a forbidden mpreg or something?