My Child Will Have a Different Father

Got to say, not really loving the underlying sexism, the unbalanced relationship dynamic or the ML’s personality.

[ MAIN CHARACTERS ]⚜️Princess Hinael (FL)

• doe-eyed look, shaken, demure, determined
• wants to be a mother again
• daughter of King and Concubine
• mother was a maid turned concubine
• bullied/looked down on in palace

♟️⚔️ Prince Lutz of the Empire of Triekas (ML)

• confident, kind of condescending, bitter
• violent, obsessive, careless, temperamental
• hold a dark family secret. Inherited curse
• heightened senses
• a madness lurking beneath
• pushed out after new empress+her kids entered
• mother died of despair

His response to his attendant saying his new wife had arrived safely: “…as if I’d be worried. She’s just war compensation after all”

🐝 Count Chetaire (antagonist)

• sadist, perverted, obsessive, controlling
• violent, possessive
• famous for being madly in love with FL
• refuses to let go of FL
• ”she’s mine!”

[ ASPECTS / TROPES ]

• going back in time. Who marries who is reversed
• FL is always in ML’s power
• kingdoms still suffering from previous war
• political intrigue
• ML and his half brother’s fight for survival
• snowy/icy backdrop
• The FL calms the ML’s ‘madness’ 😑
• Fast paced romance

[ CONTENT WARNINGS ]

Death, nudity (implied), sex + sexual references (shows a bit then fade to black), sexism (slut shaming, kings with many neglected concubines, normalised r*pe and adultery, the “I can’t help it” excuse when the ML repeatedly continues sex despite the FL saying to stop), war (past. Mentioned), explicit sexual assault, kidnapping, suffocation, confinement, abuse (verbal, psychological, physical), violence, blood, public humiliation, drug use