Oh wait really? Just give them a follow request, they already have so many followers so they wouldn't ignore yours.
As for the spoiler, it's nothing climatic but it can be hard to believe, it was for me too trust me. But this spoiler in itself changed the entire outlook of the novel altogether and everything pieced together after a second read. I find it upsetting that some readers here try to spoil everything altogether and even false ones instead of letting new readers judge the series on their own.
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Basically Matthias has never been a red flag (he's
not toxic, never forced himself on her and always loved her) and never will be. Also he fell in love with the 18 year old Layla at first sight, not the 12 year old one. The real red flag has always been Layla (and even Kyle to some extent, yeah I know you can't believe it but he's a mommy's boy and he only cared about marrying Layla, never trying to understand whether she loved him or wanted to marry him too, basically he's being forceful and there's other reason too) and she started the mess by making it a bigger mess than it already is. Layla always wanted to be a perfect because that's how she believed she could keep living with Uncle Bill. Her mother abandoned her and her relatives kept making her go to one relative to another, she never really had a place to call home. She wanted to be useful to Uncle Bill so he wouldn't kick her out. Uncle Bill also kept pushing away the matter that he wanted her to live with him permanently, acting all tsundere and telling her she should live under better care (Layla thought he didn't want her there).
According to the analyses, Layla's obsession with being the perfect adult made her look at everyone else's as flawed. She fell in love with ML at first sight and yet she is harsh to her as we saw in the manhwa. He never did anything offensive, and as a noble, is there a reason why he should be extra caring for FL who is a commoner, who was also only a child when they first met. Despite that, the FL remains hateful of the ML, why? First, she knew a commoner, moreover an orphan like her has no chance with a Duke, so to keep her love from growing, she used every reason she found to dislike the ML, one being the fact that ML hunts birds as a hobby. But hunting was a favourote pasttime for most nobles back in the old days, and
Second of all, there's a huge status gap. Remember the coin scene? Layla felt embarrassed picking up a coin in front of ML, she said the ML gave a mocking smile at her, but according to the translations he never did so and because she never looked up to check his expression, she imagined it all in her head. And why ashamed? That's because she loved him and wanted to be his equal, any person would not like to be in the embarrassing moment in front of their crush, right? And when a person like her is abused and neglected to the point they don't have anything of their own, the only thing they could cling to is their pride, and pride became the reason Layla acts haughty in front of ML instead of taking it chill.
Then comes the fact that ML gets engaged to Claudine, and she saw that as a flaw to reject the ML every time he tries to get to know her. She could have been chill about it, Matthias should never matter to her if all she cared was being Uncle Bill's family. She saw Matthias's advances as being very unbecoming of him because she saw him being an engaged man as an insult to her dignity. She would rather die than be his mistress, and even if he wasn't engaged, she would rather be his Duchess than a mistress hidden away from everyone else, she wanted to walk along with him proudly. She never said these explicitly btw, but if you read between the lines, her thoughts become too obvious.
Layla always plays the victim card (like Rashta and the other villain mistresses you see in many historical manhwa) but I never suspected it because the entire plot went mostly in the point of view of Layla, who twisted everyone around her with flaws and viewed herself as an adult who would never do anything wrong or harmful. She gaslighted herself so much that way cuz it's the only method she had to feel better about herself. She saw Matthias as a villain he never was and provoked him so much despite his great efforts in trying to understand her. Matthias is very perceptive of Layla's likes (he knows she likes sandwiches, mystery novels, birds and stuff) and has also defended Layla on multiple occasions which Kyle could not do.
There's so many other spoilers I wanted to share with you and explain properly but it's getting too hectic here so it would be better for you to read the spoilers from the account I mentioned. They arranged the spoilers and analyses in an organised manner and they are also willing to explain you anything you don't understand.
Also please don't attack me. If you still think ML is a red flag and toxic, let me tell you I hate toxic people to the core and I would never defend ML this much if he was really toxic. Give the ML a chance to understand him and stay away from the spoilers anyone tells you here because they all read from those illegal translation sites who messed up with the original storyline so much it's unbelievable.
thank you so much for replying I will surely read the novel and wait for the manhwa updates now I don't have to feel guily for reading it idk why I even believed the half fake spoiler but i was kinda doubtful they might be wrong cause why such good artist will pick a super toxic ml story ;)
I hope everyone just wait and enjoy the manhwa and judge things by themselves :))

There's this user on instagr@m who posted spoilers and detailed analyses of the novel and she read it from the legal site, not the inaccurate translations available illegally. It changed my entire outlook of the series.