
plssss....WHAT exactly happened to the emperor????? what is his trauma???
T^T I just need to know already huhuhuh

The previous empress, his supposed to be mom hated him and tortured him because he wasn't her real child. I think he was the son born by the king and a lowly maid. So yeah and the empress adopted him because she couldn't bear any children. One day the empress called for him. When he arrived he saw a woman tied in a chair with her head inside a sack. The empress commanded him to kill the unknown person if he wants to make her proud and so he did cause yeah he's a kid and he wants his "so-called" mother to love him. Of course he hesitated but he still killed the person then the empress laughed and told him that he just killed his real mother. He was shock and after he found out that the person he just killed was his mother, he cried so bad and screamed while hugging the dead body.

Basically after that he thinks rosemund is some god who is there to save him from his past full of bs and he ends up falling for the image he created and once he finds out that rosemund chose the Fl to be the empress because she was barren herself, the emperor realizes that he was a bitch and was doing exactly what his father did to him and his mother.
With the help of the dukes wife, the FL ruins rosemund's reputation as the duchess divorces the duke and without his wife, the duke is nothing. Since rosemund was depending on the duke a lot, when he loses power she becomes nathing and has barely any social backing. Therefore, the FL gains more political power slowly and the emperor in the meantime is trying to make up with the empress because he did sth terrible.
they end up having a happy ending

I'm not sure as to why the emperor would hate the duke but as to why the duchess would hate him is that the title of duke was originally the duchess's and the blood of the original duke family flows with her but the duke basically rapes her and gets her pregnant and she has no choice but to marry him. As for the emperor hating the duke when he finds out, it's probably related to how his mother (the maid) died. i forgot TwT

Oooooh. I also had a feeling like that when I was reading the novel. Like, maybe the doctor got too much pressure from Rosemund and had no choice but to choose among the ladies (even though no one was actually barren among them) and he happens to pick the fl.
Well if that happens, then that's great too! At least the MC's have a chance to have a family. I also want the ml to experience having one since his childhood is so saaad. Though it's still great that he loved the fl even knowing that she was barren
Title: I tamed the wild duke
FL: "I decided to live like a cockroach...
meow"
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