
It wasn’t the past tho, her dad literally threatened to ruin them socially and financially, if he so much as showed a TINy bit of love towards her. And because he was raised to exist without weaknesses, he immediately marked the FL as dead weight and chose to ignore the problem.
If we’re being entirely honest, he didn’t do much except ignore her. The servants are the ones who took advantage of ML’s indifference and FL’s humble modesty- cuz ML wasn’t going to do shit about her abuse and FL was too broken to fight for herself. If anything he made himself purposely ignorant, despite how his wife’s life low key mirrored his own mother’s

But don't forget how he took Reina's baby away from her and and gave elle to his ex fiance to raise him. I mean, I know she wasn't properly taking care of elle but that was because she was scared she would ruin him if she touched him. And even if that was the case the Duke could have help her or even sent someone to help her but he didnt care enough to.
In Reina's last moments when she asked him if she could see elle one last time he was grew alittle and treated Reina as if she was a stranger that must've hurt her a lot. So he didnt just ignore Reina he really hurt her.

But don't forget how he took Reina's baby away from her and and gave elle to his ex fiance to raise him. I mean, I know she wasn't properly taking care of elle but that was because she was scared she would ruin him if she touched him. And even if that was the case the Duke could have help her or even sent someone to help her but he didnt care enough to.
In Reina's last moments when she asked him if she could see elle one last time he was grew alittle and treated Reina as if she was a stranger that must've hurt her a lot. So he didnt just ignore Reina he really hurt her. ( ̄へ ̄)

He didn't know how she felt, we do. You can't put all the blame on him when he didn't know how she felt like we do. He didn't know what she endured, we do. Yes, he didn't care to look at what she was dealing with, but he was raised that way. And no one said that it was wrong she of course he would know. But regardless what he did was terrible. Let's at least be happy that he is changing.
Nope,still hate him!and waiting for his suffering.having a sad past doesn't give you an excuse to be a mf.