ok , nvrmind my last comment on maybe the butler being redeemable. I get the whole "respect based on ability" but you knew about not only the harassment but still punished a maid you knew was innocent. i cant with him. i have a shit list and it keeps getting longer. it goes
1.Duke, choose incompetent staff, and placed unprepared ppl into situations they weren't taught to handle, and then neglected them and got upset with negative results
2. Chloe, face and popularity obsessed she tried to be everything she wasnt, lied and blamed others for her own failings, resulting in loss of property at home and a maid to be whipped.
3. Butler, new the harassment the duchess was undergoing and did nothing, as well as participated in the punishment of a maid who he knew was innocent.
4.Maid collin, from ch1 who got slapped, shes just a bully due to her own inferiority issues and i cant like her. she pushes around her coworkers literally and is still trying to obsess and bully a kid from her childhood. Also she then proceeded to try to isolate her when she started making moves to get along better, by punishing a lower maid for following the the duchess' orders and trying to get along.
5. Park, the reincarnator, just ok with abusing staff after coming from a society she lived in for 28y where abuse at work is a major no no. And then while knowing the crimes Chloe committed before she took over, shes still acting snide about how ppl treat her. The empathy is gone