@aFFi He put his blood on the eggs. It might of been an accident, he might of been ignorant, but he still did it. The kids are definitely his, no one elses, he wasn't cucked. Like I said, only a fucking mongrel abandons his children. I'm not sure if the author intended it this way but I'm reading this as a commentary on how terrible modern parents act these days. If this was an American couple the mother would be all "Take the kids today its girls night out~" and the dude would be "Goddammit is it too late for abortion?" Couples today will divorce each other and throw away their kids just because they're not "happy." This is really the biggest thing for me - if they were not in fact his kids, I would denounce the mother as a vicious THOT and fully support the MC fighting such bullshit.
It might not be fair or just or even logical really, but the fact is the kids are his and MC is a man of honor because he's accepting that.
I would be very interested to hear what you define as having equal meaning to raise your kids. Saving lives is meaningful. Serving your community is meaningful. Raising children is meaningful. "Happiness" is not meaningful, which is sadly what the typical American pursues relentlessly day in and out.
Tons of people in these threads have been bitching about his virginity, the latter half of my comment wasn't necessarily directed at you. As if getting laid is the most important achievement MC could have accomplished and not I dunno saving a species from near extinction.
Can't really compare age difference when talking about cross-species. For all we know FeMC is still considered a minor by dragon standards. Regardless I don't see how having an eternally youthful wife is a negative. Rather than "forced marriage", its "I accidentally and unintentionally made some kids while trying to do a good deed and now I have to take responsibility."
It literally said she's been stockpiling the crystallized eggs because she didn't want to throw them out. Alls they gotta do is auction one off once and awhile.
And yeah, if you switched the sexes, it'd probably be more fucked up(the details sort of matter, obviously the old dragon man in this case wouldn't be the one laying the egg so we don't know enough to say exactly how fucked up it would be). Buts thats because men and women are different, regardless of how much feminists shout they are not. Society has always been shit to men - working the fields all day, being sent to die in a war for someone else's gain, having to be the primary caretaker for a large extended family(That whole going to war thing? It was often the case it was the comrade's duty to take care of his fallen battle-brothers' family, the government sure as shit wasn't gonna do anything about it), and ooh is that smallpox? "Get fucked peasant." Reality is shitty, unfair, unjust, unkind, and suffering is the default state of humanity. The reason men of honor and integrity have been revered and held up as standards of human behavior for thousands of years is because they manned the fuck up, did not curse the heavens for their fate, and rose above it all while still doing the right thing.
This guy is literally a male version of Daenarys, he is the Father of Dragons. He'll be a goddamn global legend when its known. Considering how much support he's receiving from his father/brother as well as magic mouse man I'm just saiyan this situation is not nearly as awful for the MC as people want to make it out to be(on top of the whole, y'know, they're-his-goddamn-fucking-kids thing and will literally die without his presence). Its fucking crazy anyone would think he should just let the kids die because notmyproblemIdidnttouchthatbitch.
tl;dr you say cuck, I say man of honor doing the right thing.