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What’s toxic about it?

You do not see the physical abuse and emotional hurt? Let alone the toxic obsession that he has to claim him? This manga spells toxic and everyone else knows it.

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I think that's an archaic way of thinking. A woman shouldn't attend the needs of man just because she is married to him. She doesn't love him so she probably is going to do that. Instead he really needs to work on his relationship with her because he fucked up his first impression. She doesn't know he needs love cause there is no communication. You can't love someone if the only idea you have of them is if they are a murder. Plus he hasn't been kind to her much. So yeah.

true, like why would she need to tend the duke? lol if i were her i'd be scared too

No, she doesn't have any duty toward him. Especially when they already agreed this is just a fake marriage.

She didn't marry the Duke out of free will the original duchess did. So to expect her someone from our century to show love towards him is asking to much. In our society murder or torture is looked down very heavily. Theirs however not so much. And even from times like that alot of woman didn't love their partners. Yea they did the duties of a wife but mainly relationships from that type of time period was more business like then an actual relationship

Sorry for the confusion, I wasn't speaking about tending his needs as a person. I meant loving him as a wife would. I get that she got the wrong impression of him but it isn't like she doesn't know what kind of family it is. That's why she is trying to save Ain. I understand your point with the lack of communication that they have but that's because she always avoids him and won't give him the time to speak his peace. I feel as though she isn't giving him a chance based on his job(which isn't normal). She gives Ain the benefit of the doubt.

All I'm saying is that I just wish she'd give him a chance like she is giving to Ain. Also with that some love.

What I mean as a wife is just simple gestures of how was your day...

I'm sorry I just don't see any woman from the 21st century ever giving a man like the Duke any sort of attention let alone a greeting. People can say they would be different and would do things differently but unless you have a sociopath or psychopath like mind no I don't see anyone being different. Plus the only times before he tried to get close was at the dinner table and again he only started that was he wanted to see how ain acted around the duchess up close not because he wanted to know her as a person. Again if this was real life those 2 would hardly ever see each other that place is massive. In reality when those 2 met it was at a social advent, he called for her in an office or it was time for a nightly endeavor. But because it's a book of course there gonna run into each other cause that's how the author wants it to go. I'm not completely hating on the Duke cause I can see he's actually trying but I can understand why the fl is so cautious of the Duke. So I can't hate the way she tries to avoid him. Because any normal human would.