No Kaliq. It's not about happiness! It's about mutual love and sex. That's why the duke is incomplete, because he has the sex, but not the mutual love (for power? for Belita? for the dead widow?idk)
Evidence:
Happiness is something fleeting. So no happy, no beast!
Buuut the duke is very much unhappy. So no happy and yes beast.
Before Hae da says they were all the same, I was thinking exactly right that. Usually authors give different personalities/traits for the leads. But here the leads are all manipulatives, liars (as in opportunist) and obsessive. They would do the same in each other situation. I mean, maybe not hide a child. Idk, maybe they would.
I imagine the servant looking for a shawl for Vivian. He was confusing how to get a shawl in the first place. Its not like he can open some guest luggage or her Majesty closet. So he goes to a empty room and get a the sheet from the bed. A fine sheet no less. So now the duke is satisfied and nobody seems to question why this shawl is so long.
Nice work, unamed bro ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
And I have few words:
Why Adaline so closet-lesbian code?
And, when Theo loose his memories for the first time and was talk about affection I really wanted to say to him: "Yk what you do with this affection? You gonna buy a corn, wrap you affection on it and then... Shove in your ass"
How dare him to try mend everything with the power of love?
FL just commit perjury for vindication hahahaha