Wonder if the queen did it to stop him from chasing her, it’s been a while since I read, but maybe also that girl and is being petty.
It could maybe her brother that guy with the long hair he seems suspicious
The prologue is still my favorite.
I know it’s ‘weird’ for the Duke to be so gung hoe about FL, or that they’re too much, it really he’s a caring guy Only for those he considers His (which would be a treasure to have)
My guess is her stunt put her in his interesting catagory then quickly catapulted into His, because really what child tries to get someone else to kill her (and this wouldn’t have worked if he was a noble piece of trash, and he’s not so the story can work) he cares for his family in his own way, but she’s special because she unintentionally forces him to have to show he cares in Other ways and he has to do it but by bit or it’ll scare her off or to the point she begs for death again
And when or if she ever feels safe enough the Duke will have been showering her with so much love it’s normal by now
It she’s a good kid partially because it’s Her attitude and secondly because she knows what life is like without it and is replaced by hate and greed
The only thing I’m sad about is she doesn’t do this for his own kids, it I’m just gonna assume he tried to show his loves and his kids pushed that form of love away since they were ‘big’ boys now or are Aristocrats
╮(￣▽￣)╭ I’m not sure
He deserved that ten fold.
I don’t blame her for finally snapping.
Just when she finally started to believe in his love, the fear of his memories coming back and he hates her again (or is acting like it)
I wish she could just walk away and leave, she deserves that much
In this Second life they have been nothing but caring and loving
I don’t know what the difference is, if they had the blond girl before they got FL then it’d make sense that the blond caste magic to control, or if they met at parties one by one so the magic seeped in
If in the second life the family subconsciously avoided the blond girl (since they wouldn’t have memories). If blond could poison the Emperor who would probably have great magic and a lot of safety features to protect him… huh wonder if blond corrupts targets magic and then in turn uses targets own magic to influence target. If you don’t know you have cancer (magic or otherwise) how can you fight it and how can you fight it if you trust the source?
So in this second life, I like her family, would you climb a 3 story tree just to save or get your ward/ charge down? Most lords would send a servant, or it’d be one of the kids who wanted a challenge or bragging rights,
It also might have helped that she was much more cautious with the family, but that love had to be there in the first place ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
So yes I’ve forgiven but I have not forgotten the treatment
My guess is the bitch can control peoples emotions but it's not too strong, like, she didn't get to eat the fruit
I wouldn’t wish my worst enemies which him. If he cared I. The beginning then she wouldn’t have cause any problems. (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
If he had cared to have the servants treat her normally rather than abuse her, she wouldn’t have resorted to such measures, if, if, if.
This “ML” sure loves to dig his own grave and really does he even love her or just love an idea of her, he one that loved her lover and misses him dearly because he was the only one who care for ‘her’ not her title, not her family name, her.
Honestly it would have been a much better story if the lover was the one to get the FL (and that saying something since I love black hair and not so much white or blond)
The only possibile love I see forming is Stockholm syndrome e cause she really doesn’t have a choice , he’ll if FL is able to die without Ellie taking the brunt of ML’s wrath I’ll call it a happy end.
That’s how messed up he is, and how toxic this relationship is
And anyone in their orbit crashes and burns in horrible ways （/TДT)/
So like, I’m just waiting for the emperor to shoot at the duke to kill him and it either hits or she takes the hit and a revolt will probably happen
And o m G they are so fucking cute together! Then I get to the ‘end’ with their future selves are demon and holy fudge! I want ALL of them to be happy!
So like I’m thinking threesome.
We got grand Duke her Past his future, Her now and Grand Duke now
I don’t want any one of them to be unhappy (⌒▽⌒)
But if it won’t end in the threesome I’m hoping past/future empress might wake up as a demon to spend the rest of her life with past/future demon Duke!
If I ever ended up Isekai into this story I’d happily work as a servant for the grand Duke and ship threes two so god damn hard! (≧∀≦)
She never asked him and always assumed.
She never told him why she never told the truth about being cursed by the witch.
She may have done it to ‘protect’ his innocence.
She knew he wanted to say goodbye to Daisy, that he at the very least had a friend that he Truly cared about..l
She tried I’ll give her credit there, but did she ever Listen to her son? She didn’t explain and only told (if she even did that *eye roll*)
I can’t help but wonder if he was never curse would he still be unhappy. I’d believe it. A son trying to be a ‘good son’ for a sad queen/ mother
So recap
Ch 1 she killed herself so he could finish revenge, then for some odd reason she returned to the day she met him.
And I thought he hated her. Turns out he’s obsessed with her… not… not in a good way (normally I like possessive men, but only to a point) killing everyone around her didn’t help anything and killing this guy on the latest chapter… yeah… I don’t feel safe around him
But I think she gave away the plot, saying that the king would do ANYTHING to bring her back
I wonder if he turned back time to bring her to life, the cost his memories and her keeping hers (though maybe that was more a side affect, but for history not to repeat itself something g has to change) but maybe this happened again multiple times on repeat till something changed
I really don’t know if I like the ML, right now I can’t really sympathize with him (￣∇￣")
He's hateful in wanting to kill a loyal guy like Gideon for this, and perhaps the ML did kill her dad in their past life, but in the new life apparently the only one the ML did kill for sure was her aunt (as he had officially executed), and not the rest of her family, since the person who killed her father and uncles in this life is ultimately the one who set fire to the house. Yet.... that fire doesn't seem to have been the ML's doing, either, since in chapter 1 they show him looking at that fire and telling his soldiers it must be just a ploy from the FL's relatives distract them, in order to buy time to escape... (but we learned later on he was completely wrong at that time, because, aside from the FL, her father and uncles had all chosen not to escape from the burning house, and simply waited to die in there..). As for his motivations, I interpreted that he had wanted to kill everyone but her because he (mistakenly) thought she was the only innocent one in that family, believing her father and adult relatives had killed his father, leaving him an orphan, and that they had also tried to poison him (but he was also wrong on this two accounts, because that was only what the FL's family *LET* him believe; the FL's father never killed his dad, but *took the blame* for a certain someone else, and the FL's aunt never tried to poison him for real, she only gave him a non-lethal dose of poison mainly to convince him give up on being with the FL). In a way, it's sad how her family let the child ML believe the worst because they chose not to tell him the truth about his father (that he'd been secretly beaten and brainwashed since childhood to turn him into a bloodthirsty killer, by his own maternal family).
Hmm... I was contemplating on reading the story
Lol, we're mostly speculating and "fact-checking"because the story's so confusing