Wait, where does it say he didn’t want to he did. He committed a lot of atrocities even before they were properly together because he wanted to be king he wanted to be better he wanted to kind of be worthy to be with the person who loved I think that was why That person but at the end of the day that person just didn’t love him the same as well as you know crazy ass bitch
EXACTLYYY
I think I has spoilers but I read the novel long ago so I am not sure ....
If I not mistaken in the novel the emperor father had a inferior complex because he was a beta he had a few other princes BUT he finally had one alpha so he planned to make his only alpha son the next emperor then he forces the now now emperor in a engagement with the dominant omega, the emperor meets in private with the empress and says he doesn't want get married and he doesn't want the throne but the empress family kills his brothers make him the only heir and forces him to marry her he ignore her in the beginning then the night he was raped and he started to actually act like the emperor more like self defense and then he became a ass completely
so the manhwa failed to present his character as it was in the novel and made it seem like he already had intentions to become the emperor with plans to collude with the now empress but chickened out when it was happening...?
But when I think about the fact that he didn't even wanna be the emperor, was raped by the queen that couldn't take a "no", lose the love of his life and the fruit of the worts night of his life is now the only heir to his throne and he must see the kid the reminds him of the night the he was raped +the fact that he hated the idea of becoming the emperor... HE IS a TERRIBLE FATHER, TERRIBLE EMPEROR... but I make sense that he is terrible the guy only had trauma
That doesn't excuse the fact that he traumatized Etienne, but I Don't think he even had the time to process his traumas let alone heal from it...