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I have a huge feeling that both the imperial family and his mistress have something to do with it. I'm even guessing that the mistress was sent by the imperial family but who knows. I might be totally wrong at the end.
Honestly the way they've been throwing around how the villainess is a poison pro, I wouldn't be surprised if he was drugged too. A made up fuck you stuffed into a bottle to mess with perception/intellect or what have you. And from there Barbara just swoops in and tells him what's what.
I don't get the father at all I think he has some kind of deep hatred/resentment towards fl's mother which landed on fl and her brother after she died,, but they haven't revealed exactly what that is yet,
I also have zero idea what the brother is doing, he feels so incompetent, everyone seems to think he's smarter then he looks but the way he's letting himself get walked all over is so annoying