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This is a story about mismatched timing, ruining good things, and being so bad at feelings, you make the object of your affection suicidally depressed.The ML has a definite chip on his should and is a salty, suspicious AH about everything and everyone. To a slightly exhausting degree. This lead him to treating his completely-besotted-with-him wife terribly for a very long time, as he was being a suspicious moron who suspects she has evil intentions, and is meant as a method of controlling him by her father and the Emperor (who actually seems pretty chill, so I'm not getting where the animosity and paranoia are coming from). His ab*se before his switch flips and he starts loving her mainly takes the form of cutting, b*tchy retorts, and neglect.He's also got a bit of fetish for dependency, control, and guilelessness. So, by the time he pulls his head out of his ass to realize, OMG, my wife is my perfect, ideal, type, and I was so mistaken about her! it is unfortunately too late, and she has gotten sick of loving him and just wants to move on. He reacts... poorly, to say the least.Spoiler
He literally locks her up for suggesting they get a divorce. She is literally kept in her room. And he puts an entire surveillance team on her. Having her completely dependent on him is apparently catnip to him.
[collapse]While that doesn't sound the most appealing, it is drama-packed, smacks you in the feels, and will keep you engaged in the roller coaster ride.If you like really obsessive and possessive guys, but in stories that go far, but not too far, this one is for you.