So for all the dumbasses saying "Oh how could people defend the Duke feeding ains poison" or "the comment section is full of psycho defending child abuse" here's your proof dumbass, here's the red handed fact that the chide family has to be ruthless cause in the game of politics and nobles, it's you or them, this is why the female lead is dumb and those commenters who think she's right are dumb, ains ain't a "normal" child to begin with, he pretends to be "kind" because the kid wants a maternal parteintial figure, just like the Duke has a issue being detached from his own emotions and doesn't understand what he's feeling or how to react with his "wife".
The main female lead,she gets me mad, she has read the book, she has to have a clue on the internal political strife, her soft handed approach would be deadly in that environment and before you throw your emotional dribble at me or some dumb argument "oh ains just a kid, how could you think he should have harsh training!", Reread the chapters where he threatens the servants and the chapter we he straight up murdered the spy and come back to me with "he's just a kid", ains ain't normal hell his own father has seen his ruthlessness and knows the kid, is playing a role.What does ains gotta do ? Does he have to straight up do a torture session to make you understand?