Spoiler The Wedding Business / 결혼 장사

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  1. solaria_

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    It is only on kakaopage for now. But needs age verification. I found this on twitter.
     
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    OK thaaank you ~
     
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    It's illegal how hot he is...:blobnosebleed: *imdead*

    Do you know when they release R19 version?
     
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    Her father sent her away at the age of 9 to get married (which isn't normal even in this historical setting) and told her never to come back....garbage. I wish she never forgave him. When they made up and hugged, it was an awful scene because they just swept a decade of trauma under the rug just because the imbecile a**hole dad thought he was doing what's best for her
     
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    OMG
     
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    Since there's a R19 version now does anyone know if they release all chapters of the R15 in it or did they only release the chapters that are and will different from the R15?
     
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    I wanna know what happened to that maid. The one that made up false rumors about Bianca.
     
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    It looks like they have released an alternative version of chapter 48. Also it’s not very different from the original (R15), there are just 2-3 more frames, one of which was added in a previous comment.
     
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    Dying to know what happened at chapter 52 onwards of the manhwa
     
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    Isn’t it the part where Fernand kidnapped and attempted to rape Bianca, but then Second Prince come to help and kill Fernand (then Second Prince tried to rape Bianca too, he’s not a good man, NEVER)?
     
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    I’m sorry but is there any more novel spoiler summaries? Specifically on the development of the knights and servants interpretation of MC?? I saw the second half of the 2nd volume spoilers and they weren’t as detailed as the first half (understandable, that’s a lot of writing and recounting of events lol.:derpyblob:)
    I really enjoyed the manhwa and the perceptions each character had of MC, BUT THIS, I didn’t realise how severe their scrutiny of her was bc it’s been watered down so much in the manhwa!! I really want a detailed summary on the characters dev and stuff.

    this, THIS!! Was a great take. A phenomenal one at that. I enjoyed reading your perspective on ML because it’s an objective point of view, whereas a lot of other opinions (even my own sometimes) are driven by emotion and bias. One thing that is saddening, specifically in the novel I’ve noticed is how negligent he was in reprimanding his subordinates for their disgusting displays of disrespect towards MC. I understand their distaste’s for her to a degree but they shouldn’t have been bad mouthing her as much as they did and as horribly as they did and felt comfortable doing so in his presence. I like ML but this was one issue I couldn’t get pass in the novel.
     
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    I feel like this is less a spoiler, more me rambling unnecessarily about how much I enjoy this story, but, hey! I rely on MTL so I can’t say for certain this is completely accurate – and I definitely extrapolate some I’ll try and delineate.

    So the knights do NOT like Bianca in the beginning. To them, she’s arrogant, extravagant to the point of being wasteful, ungrateful, and always on the edge of a temper tantrum. They dislike how coldly she treats Zakari. In their eyes, he’s going above and beyond to care for her and grace her whims, and instead of responding with gratitude and respect, she acts like it’s the least he can do for her and asks “is that all?”.
    Bianca doesn’t like them either, hah! In her head while trying to pick an escort knight, she calls Robert a pretentious lump and Sauveur rude.

    Gaspar
    Of the knights, Gaspar spends the most time with Bianca, followed by Sauveur. As the novels go on, Sauveur and Robert get less screen time (to my dismay!) especially with Bianca, but a good amount of time is spent with Gaspar.
    This is possibly just because he doesn’t talk much, but Gaspar seems to have the most almost-neutral feelings at the start - he doesn’t like Bianca, but he doesn’t seem completely comfortable with Sauveur and Robert openly insulting her, either. Gaspar tends to just silently radiate disappointment, and his dislike is only mentioned as part of the collective group’s dislike, never individually called out.

    Just as he seems to be the most neutral towards Bianca, Bianca seems the most neutral towards him of the three, indicating she would have chosen him over the other two if he hadn’t spoken up to be he her escort. Later, after the garden incident, she expresses her trust in him in her usual kind of blunt, casual way - “Well, Gaspar was with me, so it wouldn’t be a big deal.”
    I’m pretty sure the second Bianca noticed Yvonne’s clothes weren’t sufficiently warm and offered Yvonne the gray squirrel coat, her slate was wiped clean with Gaspar. The man is an absolute goner for Yvonne. Maybe not completely, but either way it clearly disrupts his view. Not sure I’ve quite translated this one correctly, but immediately after
    That said, he’s doing his duty with the bonus of getting to be near Yvonne, and he’s generally a silent but effective presence for awhile.

    We see the first hint of loyalty I think, when Bianca encounters Celine and the other noble ladies while on a walk in the gardens at the capital. Bianca is a bit brusque with them, because she sees Celine mentally dissing her peridot necklace (peridots are cheaper than emeralds, but Zakari picked the peridot to match Bianca’s eyes), and they bristle back, and when they leave, it’s noted Gaspar watches them with the eyes of someone who is going to remember every single one of their faces, and he immediately goes and tattles to Zakari about what happened lol. If he didn’t care, at least a little, I can’t imagine he would have bothered to give Zakari a heads up.
    By book 5, when Gaspar is left in charge of the Arno castle’s defense and it is under siege, he makes it clear he is willing to die to protect Bianca - but this is also explicitly stated to be because of his promise to Zakari, not necessarily because of Bianca herself. That said, he also speaks a full 3 sentences in a row to reassure her, which even Bianca notices as fairly extreme for Gaspar.

    When Arno castle is under siege, Bianca refuses to hide inside and takes a very active role in the defense, coming up with plans, directing people, making observations, and (though arguably not intentionally) raising morale. Possibly most importantly for Gaspar, she risks her life to save Yvonne, who by this point, is Gaspar’s fiancee (yay!), though Gaspar is injured protecting them both.

    That said, her actions all together are the final turning point for Gaspar, who explicitly and for the first time, swears his loyalty to Bianca as ‘Countess of Arno’ and not an extension of Zakari ( ‘the Count of Arno’s wife’).

    In the aftermath, Gaspar tells her “마님은, 누구보다도 용감하게 잘 해내고 계십니다. 그런 마님을 보필하는 것이 저희 가신들의 의무.”

    Which, from my hackneyed MTL cobbling, is something to the effect of “Madam, who has acted more bravely than anyone. It is our duty as vassals to support such a lady.”

    As affected as Gaspar is, Bianca is as well.

    Abbreviated a bit but--

    Sauveur
    Okay apologies because this is where I’m going to go wildly down the rabbit hole of interpretation.
    So a few things called out about Sauveur:
    • He’s not necessarily adept at reading between the lines, but he has excellent instincts.
    • Everyone assumes he’s hot-tempered and takes everything lightly because of his words and actions, but he’s actually got a ‘strangely high boiling point’ (aka, doesn’t get angry quickly or easily) and important moments, keeps his cool.
    • He has no connection to nobility - Robert is a noble himself, and Gaspard is one rung down (son of an unlanded knight iirc), Sauveur is commoner who is where he is by virtue of aforementioned instincts and raw skill.
    I find that really interesting because in many ways he’s a foil for Bianca (here we go into pure lee extrapolation land)
    • If Bianca has resting bitch face (and lbh, she does), Saveur has resting clown face. Everyone assumes Bianca is on the verge of screaming when she’s usually just lost in her thoughts, and everyone assumes Saveur is taking everything too lightly when he’s actually paying pretty close attention.
    • Neither of them are two-faced (this is explicitly called about by Robert wrt to Sauveur), yet both have a personality that gets generalized in a way that doesn’t tell the whole story of who they are.
    • They both say things without thinking / without a filter (and part of Saveur warming up to Bianca is the fact she understands this about him and doesn’t openly take offense, whereas others chastise him). They’re both considered rude as a result.
    • Both tend to notice details others overlook even if it’s only a side effect of pursuing their own goals (survival for Bianca, snacks for Saveur hah)
    • Both are out-of-place as a result of their status, which gives them a different perspective (Bianca as pedigree elite nobility, Sauveur as a commoner, both in this sea of new-or-lower-status-nobility).
    • Finally, there’s just the simple fact Bianca = Saint, Sauveur = Savior, like Saint-Sauveur is its own wikipedia page lol.
    Where am I going with all this:
    Nowhere in particular, it’s all mostly because of a point shortly after this behavior change where Robert kind of exasperatedly asks him what he likes about her, and Sauveur can’t really give an answer. It’s almost more like an instinct. Gaspard is the first to swear his loyalty directly to Bianca, but I think Sauveur is the first to actually 'get' her, and I think it’s mostly instinct, and I think it’s because the two of them understand each other very well, even if they don’t really spend much time thinking about it.

    He tends to have the most accurate pulse on how the relationship is going between Bianca and Zakari, predicting a number of things - which again I'm going to be stubborn and say is because of those similarities.

    I feel like their relationship is very like siblings. Sauveur slips easily into that loud, rude big brother slot. Although the narrative frames him more as like, a pet dog?? ^^;;
    OKAY now for actual novel-backed things
    For all that Sauveur acts easy-going, there’s definitely an edge to how he talks about Bianca at the start, like a sort of…casual scorn ("does she know while she was stroking that fox fur and smiling, what Zakari was going on the battlefield for her to earn it" kind of deal), and when Zakari is like, pick one for your escort, he’s described as a pig at a slaughterhouse.

    But unlike Robert, there’s not really a sense that the dislike is personal. It’s a bit subtle, but he doesn’t seem to dislike Bianca as a person so much as he dislikes the consequences of her behavior. He clearly thinks of her as extremely childish (which is important for a realization he has later). He’s also noted as being slightly afraid of her (though I’m not sure ‘afraid’ is the right word choice, intimidated by how to deal with her may be better) - he doesn’t like that he can’t predict what will set her off, as it doesn’t seem to follow rational thinking, again, like a child.

    It reminds me of like, the overworked secretary tasked with babysitting the boss’s bratty kid. One wrong move and you’re fired, but what’s a bad move when you’re beholden to the temper tantrums and whims of a brat?

    Bianca, in the beginning, just thinks of him as rude.
    When Bianca visits the stables as part of learning her duties to the estate. Sauveur and Gaspar both try to stop her, but she’s stubborn and goes in anyway, and earns some points with Sauveur by not being put off by the manure, and acquiescing when he insists she get the count’s permission to learn how to ride instead of stamping her feet and insisting like he expected. He acknowledges he hasn’t actually interacted with her much before that, so maybe she’s changed.

    He’s really quick on the uptake--guessing correctly that Bianca went to Zakari about a successor, for example, and changes his attitude as a result. It's kind of like Sauveur sees which way the wind is blowing and realigns his attitude accordingly. Robert calls him out for acting like a pet dog (again drawing the parallel between his ‘Mad Dog’ battle persona - and his instinct to open up to Bianca contrasted with his battle instincts) and Sauveur is basically like, eh, whatever, I’m getting good snacks so it’s fine.

    There’s also a suggestion that her prickly, stubborn attitude kind of appeals to him - like he’s the sort that is motivated to worm his way in the more he’s told to keep out.

    Sauveur is the most fair to Bianca, I think.
    That said, just as everyone seems to assume he goes with the flow, I think he hangs out in that ‘she’s not so bad’ space for a long time.
    Gaspard is the first to express his loyalty directly to Bianca, but imo, Sauveur is the quickest to defend her when she isn’t around, and he does so in a rather logical way. That said, at first, just as his dislike didn’t feel personal, his defense of her doesn’t either, but it’s still very fair I think.

    Particularly when Robert is picking at her, Sauveur is the one who shuts him down. At first, it’s again practical, not personal. He flatly points out that Bianca is going to be the mother of Zakari’s heir - and they are Zakari’s vassals. Later (post stable encounter) he points out that they didn’t spend time with Bianca when she was younger, and what behavior they did see was normal for a child, which she was. His thoughts show that he didn’t like her behavior and treatment of Zakari, and he’s not completely ready to just say it didn’t matter, but he very explicitly acknowledges that this behavior was displayed while Bianca was a child, and that it’s not completely fair to hold a kid’s faults against the adult they’ve become.
    For her part, Bianca upgrades her opinion of Sauveur from ‘rude’ to merely ‘loud’ ahhaha. Around the time of the tournament, her strongest impression of him is that he's kind of exhausting to be around.

    He and Vincent tend to team up in trying to convince Zakari to go along with Bianca’s successor plan (again, indicating a more rational/longterm thinking than his attitude would suggest), and Sauveur is also the first to be like, Zakari, your wife is cute and going to attract a bunch of guys in the capital, so get your shit together and win her over before that happens.
    SADLY Sauveur and Bianca don’t get a whole lot of screentime together, so things mostly the stay in the friendly banter state. He continues to kind of act the clown around her - he comes around for snacks frequently, and also to get Zakari’s hand-me-downs. Sauveur generally seems to find Bianca kind of amusing/cute? Like he thinks it’s funny that when he asks for snacks, she hands them over in a rather hostile way - but she still does it. In other words, he’s one of the first to really notice that Bianca’s actions tend to be kind - it’s just her words and expressions don’t match. (And I argue this is because he is the same way, though flipped–his words/expressions seem frivolous, his actions/observations are serious). He seems very genuine when offering her his tournament rose.

    Two things of significance IMO -
    1. Sauveur explicitly and personally apologizes to Bianca during the tournament for his past disrespect (eg, suggesting Zakari get a mistress pre-story-start). Bianca is a little rattled, but outwardly doesn't react, and simply expresses her faith in Zakari, which definitely leaves an impression on Sauveur.
    2. Sauveur’s casual observations avoid a MAJOR misunderstanding later. Zakari receives a lace handkerchief as ‘evidence’ Bianca has been kidnapped, and it’s Sauveur who looks at it and says, that’s not Bianca’s - as part of her business plan to create a sense of exclusivity, there are certain patterns of lace she only uses for certain customers, including the ones she makes for the Arno household, and that pattern isn’t one of them, it’s one from the royal family. This isn’t something he’s ever told outright - it’s something he picked up just through coming around to where Bianca and the seamstresses worked often for snacks, which I find hilarious. Because of it, though, Zakari is able to keep his cool and make a plan, instead of falling into a trap. It’s precisely the sort of small-but-significant observation that Bianca is making over in the castle (allowing her to catch a would-be-saboteur).

    Side note, he is fond of Bianca at this point, but he’s also like “uh….she’s not really very…saint-like…” Like I said, he’s very fair when it comes to her HAHAH.

    Robert
    Bwahaha, oh Robert. Poor Robert. The last holdout!
    Robert is definitely the one of the three with the greatest hostility towards Bianca. If the other knights dislike Bianca, Robert loathes her. Robert’s described as a pretty together guy, but bring Bianca up, and he loses it. He thinks she’s a selfish, arrogant, vicious, spoiled, immature little monster. He is determined to see everything Bianca does in the absolute worst light, and dislikes her so openly that Zakari ends up reprimanding him a few times over it.

    He’s the only one of the three who is a noble himself, so he has the most perspective on her shirking her duties as one. Add to that he is extremely devoted to Zakari (his loyalty is actually called out in this way, that it is something more than loyalty and closer to devotion). He was the most excited when a count brought a marriage offer to then-baron Zakari because it meant Zakari was being recognized, and so he was subsequently the most disappointed when that marriage turned out to be…what Zakari and Bianca have been living for the past decade.

    He also understands the most about what it must have been like for Zakari to get tossed out by his family, being a younger son himself, so Bianca’s haughty demeaning of Zakari’s efforts probably feel personal.

    He is also pissed that Bianca doesn’t even know his name, since it’s evidence she doesn’t care enough about Zakari to even know the three people closest to him.

    Bianca calls him a pretentious lump in her head when deciding between potential escorts.
    There is a SMALL shift early on - There’s one point where both Sauveur and Vincent (longest-serving aide to Zakari, in charge of household since Bianca has shirked all duties onto him, spends the most time with Bianca) are badgering Zakari about declining Bianca’s ‘let’s get a successor’ proposal, where Robert is kind of baffled that Vincent is even taking Bianca’s side, because he knows best how she’s wasted the Count’s money and shirked her responsibilities. The spring before they leave for the capital, Robert is explicitly feeling like the odd man out.

    When Zakari talks about Jacob flirting with Bianca, there’s the first spark of outrage in Robert, though it’s definitely more ‘how dare he insult Arno’ than ‘Bianca personally’ kind of moment. Like, it’s fine if ROBERT disses her, but how dare anyone else (because that’s looking down on Arno).

    During the tournament, Robert does present her his rose of victory since she’s the lady of Arno, and from that point on, his protests feel a little more obligatory and a little less actually impassioned.

    When she goes missing at the victory banquet, he rushes around just a fervently as the other two to find her.

    At this point, Bianca has upgraded him mentally from ‘pretentious lump’ to merely ‘annoying’.

    Also Yvonne snaps at Robert once or twice - she is NOT having his attitude ahahaha.
    Robert is still grumbling about Bianca by book 4, but it’s definitely more ‘token muttering’ rather than the blood boiling anger of book 1. Like his grumbling is more “I thought she wasn’t sociable why is she going out and about” rather than rabidly angry “that extravagant she-devil isn’t worthy” lol. He generally just avoids her when possible.

    He doesn’t FULLY come around until Bianca gets the Holy Order (in the final novel) to act as reinforcements for Zakari, and it comes out that she’s a saint.
    I rather like his arc, because it feels realistic. There’s no grand apology or swearing of loyalty, but you get the sense he’s going to keep his mouth shut and be a proper vassal from then onward. And it’s frankly hysterical to me that he’s all torn up and ashamed and Bianca clearly could not care less.

    Others
    I have to note, because I think it’s kind of hilarious, that pretty much every single character in the book acts shell-shocked when Bianca gives a genuine smile, knights included (even when they still dislike her, they react when she smiles at Yvonne joining her for a walk that first day with a kind of ‘did we really just see that, surely it was a mirage’ response). Her expression is typically cold/dismissive/prideful/arrogant, and when she consciously smiles, it’s clearly forced. She doesn’t smile often but when she does everyone is somewhat hilariously gobsmacked. Even Yvonne, who is probably the most positively inclined towards Bianca from the start, reacts to her first little smile with a feeling of someone who has had a fox hovering at the boundary suddenly come up and press their head against her palm.
    The rumors about Bianca are pretty nasty, and the seamstresses are on tenterhooks at first, but they come over to her side the more time they spend with her. They realize she doesn’t care if they chat and gossip while they work, even if she doesn’t join in herself, and the atmosphere becomes pleasant. Nicola, the candle sculptor, somewhat fanatically defends her against nasty rumors, but is mostly dismissed for being a weird kid - it’s the seamstresses that do her reputation the most good, as they talk to their husbands and their positive sentiments spread.

    Their take is that she’s very strict, but also extremely generous - they can’t believe that she would willingly teach such a valuable skill, one that they all would have been even willing to pay to learn, and is now allowing them to live a better standard of life. Also, Bianca isn’t comfortable taking credit for lace, since she learned how to do it in her alternate timeline, so they also think she’s incredibly humble. Also, because she's so strict/exacting in her standards, her compliments are accepted with high regard.
    Their reaction to her being a saint is to be kind of self-conscious in front of her for about 30 seconds, and then they tease her and go back to business.

    Meanwhile Nicola’s is like OF COURSE SHE IS A SAINT I KNEW SHE WAS HOLY AND GLORIOUS FROM THE FIRST MOMENT and everyone is just like, Nicola your opinion doesn’t count. Poor kid, hahaha.
    At the start, the people don't think well of Bianca. At best, they think she must be extremely frail and sickly. At worst, they think she's a hideous walking corpse who leeches off of Zakari and screeches and throws temper tantrums and abuses maids for being prettier than herself.

    Lace becomes extremely important to improving Bianca’s image. At a festival it’s said:

    So by the middle, her reputation is something like, the frail and delicate lady who is sickly and dependent on Zakari and gets what she wants out of him, but who also brought our territory a great deal of money.

    There’s a point during the siege where the ragtag defenders are rattled and on the edge of rioting - defeat seems pretty inevitable, they’ve gotten really bad news, and Bianca’s collapsed. She gets herself together (thanks to Yvonne giving her some important news):

    We flip over to the soldier’s perspectives, and they’re discouraged, and feel sorry for their frail, sickly miss, but are still on the edge of surrender, and then Bianca rallies them with a last stand speech right out of any underdog war drama.

    I don't want to give a poor translation of it, but there is a description while she's giving her speech and the soldiers are watching where it talks about how even when they're on the brink of death, starving wolves won't bow their heads and take meat from a human's hand because they are wild things. In it, it says people thought of Bianca as a fox - a sly woman who coaxed what she wanted out of her husband, and then as a small, delicate thing curled up under Zakari's protection, but she stands up and gives this speech, and they see that the wolf's wife is also a wolf - and maybe she became a wolf in support of her husband's will to protect Arno, or perhaps from the beginning, she was always a wolf and they hadn't noticed because she was curled up, but she's standing up now with that feral pride of a starving wolf, and it's kind of an infectious desperation that re-energizes the defenders.

    After the siege it's said simply:

    Vincent/Bang-sang is his own essay AHAHAH. His sentiments definitely yo-yo through peaks and valleys - he has the highest of hopes and also somewhat subsequently the most broken of hearts throughout Bianca's journey.

    ...okay I think I'm done rambling - cheers to anyone who go through my babbling!
     
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    Hey guys, has the third queen been mentioned in the manhwa yet? No I think, right? Neither her nor the King's kids with her? I wonder why?

    I feel so bad for king and the queen, the king had to live such a life with heavy responsibilities on his shoulder and the queen died early without seeing their children growing up. He must've blamed himself for all the tragedies and also about how his illegitimate child killed his beloved boy. First it was the mother who assaulted him, then her pawn killed his son off...oof.

    The Queen was betrayed by the one she trusted the most. Although it wasn't King's fault but living knowing that incident still bore a fruit.

    I wish I could read about them more.
    I would also like to read about the third queen, her relationship with everyone and what she thinks about the king and the overall situation. But, it is not their book so understandable why there is not much information about them except what the readers should know.
     
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    No, in the manhwa they specifically told that after 2 bad marriages the king never took a new wife.

    As far as the 3rd wife and her 2 daughters were never even named in the novel and didn’t have any lines, I think it was okay to cut them to make the king look more humane. There’s possibly some parallel with the main leads situation, but it’s too slight.

    The only connection to the story the 3rd Queen had (and if the MTL was right) was that she was Catherine’s relatives and this is why she had access to the Queen’s personal garden where she and Bianca first met. It was the part earlier where the other girls haven’t recognized Bianca and the value of her jewelry and where Ante appears for the first time after a while and starts rumours about Bianca.
     
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    Oh thanks for answering @its0k
    Also strange, that it's mentioned that the King had a bad marriage with regards to the first one, is there no mention of whether he loved his wife?

    Yeah right, I too think it was quite unnecessary, it's okay if they aren't mentioned in the manhwa.

    I'm sorry for too many questions tho, I don't wanna read the manhwa or the novel, I'm alright with the spoilers, these were just few of the questions I had :cry:
     
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    It was a wrong phrasing on my part, I apologize for the confusion. I meant that in my option both marriages were bad, as they were messy because of the drama and have ended with the wives’ death.

    Anyways the King loved his 1st wife very much. But she was very hurt by the “cheating” thing (he hasn’t cheated actually, Jacob’s mother and the future 2nd wife has basically used his drunk body to bring discord between the royal couple and got pregnant by chance) and couldn’t forgive the King for a long time. But as soon as she’s forgiven him and gave birth to princess Audrey/Odelli she has passed away because of an illness, leaving 2 kids and a grieving husband.

    Then the King had to marry Jacob’s mother not to feel guilty about his son being illegitimate (and because of the pressure to get a new Queen). But he never touched his 2nd wife. She went crazy because her plan didn’t succeed and the King has never loved her and killed herself, leaving a vengeful son who believes he’s owed the position of the heir because of his unhappy childhood.

    In the novel the 3rd wife was a political marriage which the King had to have. There was no mention of his feelings for the 3rd wife.

    I tried to find the piece about only having 2 wives in the manhwa, but couldn’t. But I remember reading the narration about how the king never got married afterwards because of the drama with his first 2 marriages.
     
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    Cookiemonster_007isback I need them cookies

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    Thank you for the spoiler! :love:

    Yeah man, read that part about him taking her so to not feel guilty towards his son who born in whatever circumstances, who in turn served his father goodwill by taking the life of his older brother.

    Haizz, such a cunning man yet blamed the wrong person. Although according to his situation, life was very benevolent to him, his father still accepted him keeping aside the trauma and pain his mother inflicted on him and his loved ones.
     
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    I don't know whether I should be posting this but ever since the latest chapter got released with the "Jacob incident" thing,did you guys see there's alot of reels and shorts been made:D where many people commenting like," oh his backstory is so sad,I pity him and love him now since it's all bcoz of his dad,oh his childhood is so sad blah blah..! Idk about others,ofc no one is born evil, circumstances made them to be one, but that still doesn't justify or excuse people like Jacob who is plain evil and doesn't change one bit despite opportunities given. I was just replying to someone about this too sarcastically about how Jacob growing up especially in the laps of luxury as second prince how sad his life was sleeping with tons of women,trying to r*** a married woman, murdering people and lots more. I just can't like his character one bit but that's just my opinion :blob_grin:hope his fans doesn't get offended!
     
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    Sad backstory should mever be used to justify or excuse horrible deeds. The think I suffer so you suffer is toxic as hell. There are millions of criminals, rapists, kidnappers, drug dealers, mafia and much more that have sad past. According to social media, we should just open jail cells and let them roam free. Also there are some people who have sad childhood, yet they manage to not hurt others because of it, coz it is not the world's fault. Everyone is too sensitive these days. No wonder crime ratio has increased.

    Also this pity happens when characters are handsome.
     
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