ML's father's manipulation of forcing ML to inherit the dukedom is so like wow.

Right? Like he treated his second son as an after thought and now that he has no choice he’s like “well, you’ll be the duke”... only AFTER his 1st son is no longer an option (⊙…⊙ ) if he did this when Cliff was first found ‘evil of sorts’ it’d be kinda ok - but he just said “oh, you can still recover” and gave him a second chance ...