@talas
Well, they quite stupid but less in the novel.
The pope (all asshole he is) he treated his son very preciously, Van have basically grow up in a ivory tower with a silver spoon. He have everything and didn't need to really think about anything at all. The church taught him about god and all the thing a religion usually taught but nothing about real life.
In the novel he just came and ask some help beacuse it's right to help someone in need without thinking 1 sec about the fact that MC is indirectly the victim twice by him.
The knight is just stubborn as fuck. After the incident in chap 1 he's father put him in prison because MC was still the crown prince fiance a this time and to put some plumb in his head.
But even after 2 month, the knight still think he's in the right.
In the end it's mama who will shake he's will with 2 argumùents :
- Another women flirt with her fiance, she didn't behave right but she's not entirely in the wrong either
- Instead of ending this story in private, they made it public and her life as a women and noble is finish ever, this punition is way more harsh that what she is accused to.