
Can someone explain to me why he ignored her for 18 years of her life and now he wants to step up... imagine being so indifferent to your child they think u want them to kill themselves bruh. I just can’t with the duke rn.

Slightly spoiler? I think there is a spoiler somebody said even before he spoiled and adored his daughter but after an incident involved with the death of his wife and he couldn't protect his wife, also thinking his daughter didn't like him before thinking he was the one who killed her mother. So he tried to distant away from her or she distance herself from him first. So their relationship during that timeline was troubling. Guess there were misunderstandings on both their parts. I think this timeline she was able to approach him by herself and he might have had a chance to get back to where things were with his daughter. Sorry if this sounded like a mess lol. It'll be revealed on the future anyways.

Yep as I have understood, the dad always liked her daughter but he's a shitty dad that doesn't understand the concept of neglect. I also think the knife was given for self-defense since he said "survive" which as far as I know is the opposite of dying. Pretty sure the duke and prince had some sort of scheme in the first life, like perhaps prince was supposed to bring the daughter to a safe placw or explain that they're going to overthrow the emperor or smth but she didn't know, she was scared and she had a knife. Can't wait to see duke's face in the past when prince tells him So yeah, your kid killed herself at the sight of me with the knife you gave her. (No idea if such a scene even exist but I want it and want to see duke grumple and loose himself in agony and sadness. But the dad's personality is Like:
"I'm busy and I don't know what expressions or good social skills mean but I'll give you shit load of money and let you do as you please and so you can be happy my sweet daughter"
Listen kids aren’t written like real kids in books if they were we’d all have left cuz kids are just snotty no hygiene, no brain brats who probs can’t wipe they ass properly.