
Tbh if I was the Duke, I'd kill Lauren in the original too. Cause he never really fell in love with Lauren, he fell in love with the one who wrote the letters and because of his misunderstanding, he ended up killing that person. And ultimately, the reason for his misunderstanding was Lauren. Cutting off his tounge so he may not speak, so he can keep up the illusion that Lauren was the one behind those words. Kinda sad. But also crazy. I'd go crazy too if I found out I fell in love with the wrong guy and killed the real one.

Eh its not really justifying and more like me analyzing why the duke reacted that way. Im trying to put myself in his shoes and imagine what was going on in his mind during that time. I dont really take stories are seriously as other people seem to do. Its a story and most of its elements dont even apply to the real world so chill out.
Eeehhh I dunno how to feel. Top is kinda icky, but bottom is cute. Story is kinda meh and sex isn't that hot. But bottom is cute. Top's personality is meh, he's kinda like old generic yaoi seme guy who everyone goes crazy for and has a lot of money and uses it to get sex, who has an ass personality and but author tries to show he's decent by making him do random act of kindness which isn't really doing much cause he already did the worse shit which is using his money to force uke into a situation where he has to have sex with him. I say old generic yaoi seme cause in manwha's, instead of trying to make it seem like top is decent, they just justify top's ass personality by giving him a buckload of trauma. Which I like better than the yaoi approach of, he's kind just not when he likes you and he's horny! Which further complicates my feelings for this manwha, cause this is manwha with old yaoi manga approach.
But the uke is cute. So I dunno how to feel.