doxies

I’ve read ahead on the raws and here’s just a few things if anyone’s interested. Will update as more chapters come up I’m at 30+ chaps in rn
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1. Louis slept with the Crown Prince that night, the child is also the Crown Prince’s. The Crown Prince was wearing a red wig to the masquerade, hence why it then appears that the guy he went into the motel with was red haired — Louis reasons that this appearance could be due to poor lighting, which caused the person who saw them to mistake the brown hair of the Duke to be red.
- on the night of, the Duke confesses to Louis and then told him to wait for him. Meanwhile the crown prince’s carriage passes by (with his date from the ball, who he promptly ditches) and he spots Louis; Louis got on the carriage with the prince and essentially they end up sleeping together
- the Prince notes that while having drank alcohol, Louis does not appear to be intoxicated and presumes that Louis knows it is him he is sleeping with. Louis and the Prince are both well acquainted since their youth, and so the Prince leaves the note to call him (without leaving a number or name) — but when Louis fails to do so after, he gets upset and does not contact him in the next 4 months
- Louis decides to keep the child after he keeps having dreams of the dragon. The prince finds out about the pregnancy, but multiple misunderstandings occur: both of them mistakenly believe the child is the duke’s, the prince finds out about Louis’s initial plan to get rid of the child and agrees with it thinking its the Duke’s child etc.
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2. The Crown prince has been harboring a crush on Louis since their time together as youths in the training academy.
Louis is the white rabbit that the prince talks about, if that isn’t clear enough
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3. The Duke is possibly behind both the murderer and the drugging Louis 4 months ago. But this is just my conjecture at this point.
- mentioned above, Louis doesn’t appear drunk but has no recollection of the events. The situation came about only after he was speaking to the Duke.
- He meets the Duke at his estate at a later point to reject his advanced, to see him covered in blood. The Duke’s excuse is that he killed a deer — Louis wonders what large deer needs him to personally kill it, and is instantly suspicious asking to see the deer itself, but the Duke claims the hunt was too poor to be shown to Louis. He eventually shows a bloodied deer to Louis in the dungeons, who promptly feels nauseous at the sight. Nothing concrete but suspicious nonetheless.
- in that same visit both his butler and the duke himself offer Louis tea multiple times; Louis appears to take a sip but doesn’t (due to his morning sickness), and when the Duke is rejected, he seems to appear to try to compel Louis into staying — at which point Louis is saved by a a command from the Crown Prince to return to the palace.
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Randolf is essentially Wolfgang's foil, from their appearances to their backstories. They're mirrors of each other, similar but also different in many ways.

Wolfgang, who is born with gold eyes and gold hair. He grows up with his mother, who keeps him hidden from the King. His mother burns, in a house set alight by the King. He has friends and comrades who trust him. He steals food, but he never touches supplies from the Royal Palace. He hates the King and he kills the King, and in turn becomes the King. In this process, he also grows to have friends and allies, and he grows to love Shin. By the time he meets Randolf, he's happy and for the most part he's content.

Meanwhile, Randolf, born with gold eyes but with dark hair. He also grows up with his mother. However, unlike Wolfgang's mother, his mother desperately wants him to be seen by the King, and longs for the King's providence. Randolf steals food specifically from the Royal Palace. Like Wolfgang, he too, grows to hate the King, wanting to enact revenge on the King. He's angry, bitter and alone in spite of the fact that he has many other siblings with him in the same place.

I just thought how well done the author illustrated how their color of hair has made all the difference in their life paths. If Randolf had been born with golden hair, wouldn't he too be able to be like Wolfgang?