
Y’all I was seriously expecting this to be the usual “stupid violent ML that doesn’t understand the basics of a relationship” and a manipulated MC who is desperately trying to get away but also can’t help but fall back into the trap—
That isn’t what I’m being fed rn and goddang it’s such a weird, unusual taste! It’s a violent guy but with a heart and conscious who is actually visibly smartly doing his best and it’s between hilarious, scary, and cute when they’re having a moment between the two. Heck, I found myself more upset with the MC than the ML sometimes coz ML gives such misunderstood aggressive doggo vibes and that it’s obvious he just needs a little social training (and that he is even open to being put in his place) and like if only MC could see his efforts or anyone else and praise him lie agh just in a couple chapter he tried and change so much (/TДT)/
He’s an aggressive misunderstood doggo who isn’t fully blind of how bad he could be and trying to be a good other half—

I just need someone to tell me that this will have a Happy Ending please ╥﹏╥

Regarding the spoiler
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The duke is not "framed," he actually was fully involved as a traitor...the only difference is that halfway through, the motivation for his betrayal disappeared so that he would no longer benefit. However, he was already in too deep, so he disowned his son to keep him from being involved in the rebellion.
It's still a Happy Ending, though, because the Duke is allowed to live after the rebellion (in a different country) under a false identity.

It's a sad story in general, though the ending sounds even worse when taken out of context (ie, me only talking about the Duke's ultimate fate).
If you look at the rest of his family, the ending's a bit happier (though still bittersweet).
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The FL and her son prevent the coup from happening. The son turns down a title as a reward, and went with his mom to her mother's (?) country, where they find out that the Duke wasn't executed as they were told, but banished...to the same country. So the entire family lives Happily Ever After together.

Just as you'd expect in that situation, I assume. (I haven't read any spoilers that specifically answer this question, so below is purely supposition based on stories with similar situations.)
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The Duke got neck deep in a rebellion against the royal family; only chance out of it was succeeding, which it didn't. Anyone who fails a rebellion against the king has their entire family executed (except for their very small children, since infants and toddlers are presumably not involved), and their lands and titles taken by the royal family, who usually give them out as rewards to their loyal followers.
The son probably would NOT have been given his dad's lands and titles, despite being raised to succeed them. He contributed to the royal family, but not QUITE that level. He probably only would have made Count...which doesn't really matter, since after being disowned by his father, he's now legally considered a foreign noble through his mother's family. (This has nothing to do with his dead uncle's land and titles, which I hope were handed back to his cousins post-attempted coup...I haven't heard anything about that, though.)

I haven't read the novel, but there is literally a spoiler thread on NovelUpdates.
https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/the-flower-dance-and-the-wild-song-%EA%BD%83%EC%9D%80-%EC%B6%A4%EC%B6%94%EA%B3%A0-%EB%B0%94%EB%9E%8C%EC%9D%80-%EB%85%B8%EB%9E%98%ED%95%9C%EB%8B%A4.117872/
Why it feels like it escalated so fast from “I hate you” to “wanna have sex?”
1- “I hate you”
They never said they hated each other, it just felt like they might because of the hostility. And then author showed in previous chapters that squirrel has always been at the very least physically attracted to pitcher (often hinted at however that he might have liked him till now but that’s way more implicit)
Author still isn’t show any thoughts regarding what Pitcher thinks of Squirrel except unusual curiosity (and lowkey admiration, but he’s also prideful af so it’s showing up in tsundere manners). It’s a good thing though coz it makes their relationship more confusing and ambiguous to us.
2- “wanna have sex?”
As I said before, squirrel explicitly showed in the story to be physically attracted to pitcher so whatever
Now pitcher
A lot of people didn’t understand the ice cream scene
Basically it was at the peak of when Pitcher was most curious and also confused about his curiosity for Squirrel and was like “y tha fuck do I even care?” and he tried to rationalize everything.
And then he sees squirrel licking tha ice cream.
Y’all probably know how the cliche scene goes and that’s why the author didn’t put emphasis on it and rather used that in a silent symbolism of him kind of stepping into the “physical attraction scene”
When squirrel left, he asked his friend what people usually think when they see someone asking just to double check and make sure that he isn’t crazy for thinking of it sexually.
And theeeeeeeennnnn he was like “okay imma check if that’s REALLY why I’m curious about him” or rather “imma check if I wanna bang him”
And then this
Voila
Hoped that helped a few!
The progression and sexual tension is so hella implicit since the characters aren’t blushing messes (they have fucking amazing poker faces hahaha) and their thoughts aren’t laid out every single time (plus there’s tsundere filters over them)
This helped so much thank you!!