I don't get the comments section sometimes

You know, the worst thing is that he didn't even hate her! As he threw the flower in her coffin, he thought that it was a pity that she ruined her life on him. Dude just needed some space and time. But OG Abigail was just too impulsive and hurt to even bother (plus pressure from family and a younger rival trying to take her place)

Ik that but, some of that attitude was because of his actions, he also neglected his daughter, if he truly cared about her he would've stepped in and stopped the abuse
I'm not saying she was a nice women and it's all his fault, but he's not clean either

Uh, are you???

He neglected his fucking daughter and let her get abused. I don't care what sad past he has and how horrible his relationship was with his first wife, but that is inexcusable

I mean, we're two chapters in, we obviously don't know the full story- I agree that he probably could've done more for Blanche as far as Abigail's abuse was concerned, but considering we see him interact with her for one panel and the context is he's coming to meet Abigail to accuse her of poisoning herself, we don't even know what he HAS done yet.

We don't know how he interacts with Blanche without Abigail in the picture. Heck, we don't even know how his interactions with Blanche were /before/ FL took over Abigail's body, since the only time we see Blanche and the ML together is that one scene. Am I saying the ML a saint and has to be forgiven for whatever he does? Absolutely not, but people are running with the same "ugh ML is shit as always" line when his actions so far have been reasonable (for a human with flaws like everyone else).

Don't want to make another topic so soon, so I'm just gonna add this after reading ch3:

Honestly, I'm not gonna go too far into my own Tragic Backstory, but manhwa like these, where parents who aren't the best (maybe not Get In The Fucking Robot levels bad, but obviously not as good as they can be) get the chance to reconcile with their kids and strive to be better are cathartic as fuck, and it's just absolutely frustrating, as somebody who USED to be on Blanche's side of a bad familial relationship and knows that abuse is a very hard cycle to break, to see people not even giving him a chance.

The ML is not a saint. I will never claim he is. But I do believe he's human, and that people can stand to give manhwa characters in general a bit more humanity than the 2D "Good Guy vs Bad Guy" morality schtick.

Bitch.

I'm sorry that happened
I can't say i know how you feel because I haven't been through what you experienced
But what i meant wasn't that he was also abusive or hated his daughter, he just neglected his role as a husband (but from what I heard from others is that his backstory has to do with it) and as a father, fine, we don't know what he did for her, but we do know he didn't stop his wife from abusing his daughter, even if he didn't want the child, he still needs to take responsibility because it's not the child's fault, they clearly didn't ask to be born.

Why so heated? They're just sharing their opinion, no need to fight about it....

Lol yep thought the same
Like the original Abigail was much worse. She would also mentally abuse Blanche.
Also I read the novel lol so it doesn't help that I already know the background of each character. The more they'll know about the King the more they'll warm up to him. He's a cute cinnamon roll.