But why do they anger me so much? Also I love the baldwin family and all their staff but I HATE how they know she’s being bullied and instead of assigning a high ranking staff/soldier/bodyguard to her, they just send her off with one person and leave her alone in the wolves den. Also, the duke has no control over his vassals AT ALL. How can he be so negligent in his own duties? In every other story of dukes and my own knowledge of dukes since my country still has them, they do not tolerate vassals thinking they have the upper hand or the last say. The highest person of the land is the duke/viscount/count/etc and everyone else SERVES THEM! They may also be nobles but it’s like how the butler is a viscount but serving the duke. It’s the same principle. Dukes can and do kick vassals off of the land if they cannot respect that the duke is the number 1 of that land and nothing can override them other than the monarch. Also didn’t duke Baldwin in the first few episodes state that he’s the noble right under the king? Meaning he’s the HIGHEST RANKING NOBLE! Yet he acts like a doormat when it comes to his responsibilities. Such a hypocrite. What’s the point of having power if you never wield it for good? What’s the point of bringing someone in as an esteemed guest if you don’t protect them? The fact that the butler is cleaning up after the dukes neglectful actions towards our baby is horrifying. The duke should have taken her out as his “esteemed guest”. The fact that people look down on her is actually a reflection on how they look down on him and he’s hasn’t even battered an eyelash about it. In my country, the hierarchy of nobles is strict and there is such a thing as “noblesse oblige” meaning that people on the noble’s property or land would have to respect the land owner and their rules but it also means that noble’s had a responsibility to protect and safeguard and treat all those who grace their land (with good intention) with respect. Quite literally the obligation of a Noble person is to be mindful and respectful of those around them and that the strong (nobles) should protect the weak (commoners). This is a very very strict rule. To go against it is to announce yourself as a poor charactered and arrogant fool. The duke is utterly negligent in his duties despite how kind he may seem. And on top of being negligent, he never once explains stuff to her. I don’t like him.
Yeah he’s a loving parent, but a dumb and weak duke, or at least the author made he seems like it.
Murk him? Bump him off? Send him to his maker? Let him cross the Han river? Why is this man still roaming the streets?
I think I read like 2 chapters but when they continued to have sex and just told their kids “why are you awake? Go back to sleep.” I can’t. Parents are meant to hide that part of life away from children and teens and these two are going at it IN FRONT OF INNOCENT TODDLERS! Also whenever uploaded this, please please please never upload all the chapters in one go. It makes everything really confusing and it’s honestly so much harder to read this way.
I think it’s weird af for a father figure to sit on their child’s lap but also.. this was a situation where the car is small since he’s just too goddamn huge and wren needed quick access to the wounds to clean them up and do a quick patch up job. I’ve had my mum sit on me for less. She was tired of standing and walking around all day and I was sitting in the only available seat but instead of telling me to get up, she just sat down so we could both be sitting. I think it’s a little less weird being that wren still seems to view him as a small child he must protect. If you look at how he holds his babies head in his arms and almost cradles him, you can see only paternal love there. I don’t blame him for it but I can also see why it would look so wrong and how assumptions were made about their positioning. I just think wren is happy to finally be reunited with his child and isn’t really thinking much beyond that. He’s happy he’s alive and relatively safe and is sad and stressed about the fact that his safety is being threatened. That parental love is a really really sweet thing even if it’s shown a little weirdly here (especially since wren lowkey looks like a hooker or an idol)
“Teachers” who whip children should be whipped and flogged themselves until they are a blood mess and need to be carted off on a hospital bed. Hopefully then they will understand that hitting someone isn’t the same as correcting bad behaviour, it’s simply a horrible and outdated punishment. Besides it was originally for thieves and criminals so whoever started doing it to children is the real villain but those who carried it on bear the same sin. Children are either too young to understand why they are being hit and therefore shouldn’t be hit or they are too old and are capable of understanding concepts taught and therefore should once again not be hit since you can gently teach them! Corporal punishment is for criminals and disobedient soldiers where mistakes = death. It shouldn’t be brought outside of those sectors. I’m saying this as a child who was hit and beat my whole life. The only thing it did was put me into survival mode my entire existence and that forced my reproductive organs to push me into an early puberty since it didn’t believe I’d live as long as I have. There’s scientific evidence that backs that up. Hitting children does nothing but make them become adults far too early and possibly introduce them to a world of kinks and fetishes that they otherwise wouldn’t have. I get this is a book but I HATE people who hurt children. Even if they are “monsters”, they are still children.
I know that almost dying and literally being comatose can mess with your brain and the fact he was bleeding out and haemorrhaging just means that his brain didn’t get enough oxygen and therefore parts of his brain is dead. I get all of that. Scientifically, it makes sense. Romantically, it’s heartbreaking and we get to see a redo of their love story. BUT I STILL HATE IT! Every single yaoi romance author either uses amnesia, SA, controlling and abusive ex’s, power harassment and imbalances at work or homophobia and I’m so tired of it. Even miscommunication is overused but that’s not only just yaoi authors that do that one. I just want one book where shit happens and they realise “damn… the last thing I thought about before my ‘death’ was my lover and I can’t imagine living or dying without them by my side, holding my hand” and they live happily ever after and have extra chapters to prove it. That’s all I want. It’s not a big ask. All you have to do is chop out the 20 chapters of bullshit tropes you’ll normally use and just replace them with love and joy. That’s it. It’s just that simple. Please authors, please just give us a little something more to be happy about.
The douchebag is douche bagging cause he’s stupid and thinks she’s property so she was probably talking to a male about work things and laughed or smiled ONCE and he was all like “WHAT A BITCH?!?! DOES SHE NOT KNOW HOW GOOD SHE HAS IT WHEN I ABUSE HER?!?! I GIVE HER SO MANY LOVELY BREADCRUMBS ONCE EVERY TWO MONTHS!!! SHE WILL NEVER FIND BETTER THAN ME!!” So now that she has found better than him, he’s pissed cause he no longer has his perfectly trained toy.
Also, he’s totally a narcissist and I say this as a daughter of one who used this EXACT treatment of me when female teachers gave me affection knowing my home life was shit. She knew she was losing me so instead of doing better than the teachers, she doubled down and lost me for good now. He’s stupid so I doubt he’d figure it out BEFORE she absolutely destroys his entire career and livelihood for what is essentially stalking (chasing her to her job) and harassment both inside and outside the office. I think I also remember him hitting her or wanting to hit her so add on assault/attempted assault and that’s a perfect little arrest right there!