Ok, for everyone who is confused:
The FL is from a foreign country, Ingerd. Ingerd has a republican government, meaning people get to vote for their leaders. Her husband, the Duke, is nobility in the country of Bessen, where they currently are. Bessen is a monarchy, and has a king/queen and noble ruling classes. The rulers of Bessen do not want their people looking over at Ingerd and being all “it sure would be great to vote, we should have a republic, too!” but republic sentiments have been spreading in Bessen, threatening the ruling class. So, Bessen’s rulers decide they need to make Ingerd look like a hell hole failure of a country, so they can curb the spread of republic ideologies. They assign the Duke to pull off destroying Ingerd. The Duke comes up with a plan to ruin Ingerd’s economy, targeting the country’s largest banking system. The FL’s father owns said bank. Her brother is also the elected treasury minister of Ingerd. The Duke married the FL to gain access to these two men, and to use his wife’s insane amount of wealth/dowry for his plans. With that access, he has slowly placed more and more funds in their bank, both his own and other noble’s who are in on this plan, invest heavily in the bank itself, and set his FIL and BIL up to be accused of espionage against Bessen, and embezzling bank funds. Once FIL and BIL had their asset seized and reputations destroyed, the Duke arranged a run on the bank, causing it to collapse and destroy the economy of Ingerd.
The big problem for the Duke is that, along the way, he fell in love with his wife. However, because of his many affairs, which were part affair, part espionage where he’d use these women as cover to receive information, the FL became quite cold to him, so he believes his wife hates him. It ironically lead to a spiral where he would treat her badly to goad her into a reaction because that was the only rise he could get out of her, which made her dislike him even more, so he’d be a little more blatant about the affairs to try to get a jealous reaction out of her, which would make her dislike him even more, and so on. He does not appear to have realized her viper of a friend has reported everything to her every time, which wrecked his chances of winning her over from the beginning.
The original plan was for her to be discarded along with her father and brother. She’d be accused of treason, since she became a Bessen citizen through her marriage to the Duke, executed, and he’d be able to remarry a noble woman and carry on. But now he loves her and wants to keep her. He knows she’ll hate him for killing her family, so he stashes her in the isolated monestary so she wouldn’t hear anything about it, which would enable him to keep visiting her and playing happy couples, though he had immediately killed her family, even before she was sent away.
He is desperate to impregnate her because then she would be less able to leave him, even if she ever finds out the truth. She was previously trapped into staying married by the business relationships he had with her father, but those are gone and she’d be able to divorce him if he didn’t come up with a new way to cage her. Having a child with her would also give him a public excuse to keep her around. It is uncertain if he planned to always keep her at the monestary or at least away from the capital so she’d never learn what he did, or if he was going to move her back to the capital once she had his child and was completely trapped.
Now that they’ve gone back in time, it appears he remembers as much as she does, but he is still in denial and hoping it’s a dream. His dream caused him to go running to the monestary to check if she was dead (which is a little silly, considering she was already in the house he was in). This disrupted and delayed carrying out Project Canary. He is now in a position where he is obligated to carry his plan out, but does not want his wife to commit suicide again, and he likely hopes that since he didn’t kill her family this time around (yet), he can get her to love him, or at least stay married to him. He seems to be figuring out that she also remembers what happened,, which will no doubt change his tactics.
As for the FL: she cannot report all the shady stuff she found because the government and the king are the ones who told him to do all of the stuff. Instead, she is trying to wreck Project Canary by ensuring her family backs out of the investment deal the Duke used to frame them, and by declaring divorce. If she declares divorce, then the Duke pulling all of his funds from the bank won’t cause a run on the bank; people will just think he’s petty, not that the bank is failing.
He has a lot of power and seems to really want to trap and impregnate her so she can’t ever leave, after which he’ll sort out her family. But she is now disgusted by him, and is resorting to using the public as a shield to get away from him.
tlmaaaaa
@Skite thank you so much bro <3
Saber2341
@Skite thank you ❤️
Skite
Ok, for everyone who is confused:
The FL is from a foreign country, Ingerd. Ingerd has a republican government, meaning people get to vote for their leaders. Her husband, the Duke, is nobility in the country of Bessen, where they currently are. Bessen is a monarchy, and has a king/queen and noble ruling classes. The rulers of Bessen do not want their people looking over at Ingerd and being all “it sure would be great to vote, we should have a republic, too!” but republic sentiments have been spreading in Bessen, threatening the ruling class. So, Bessen’s rulers decide they need to make Ingerd look like a hell hole failure of a country, so they can curb the spread of republic ideologies. They assign the Duke to pull off destroying Ingerd. The Duke comes up with a plan to ruin Ingerd’s economy, targeting the country’s largest banking system. The FL’s father owns said bank. Her brother is also the elected treasury minister of Ingerd. The Duke married the FL to gain access to these two men, and to use his wife’s insane amount of wealth/dowry for his plans. With that access, he has slowly placed more and more funds in their bank, both his own and other noble’s who are in on this plan, invest heavily in the bank itself, and set his FIL and BIL up to be accused of espionage against Bessen, and embezzling bank funds. Once FIL and BIL had their asset seized and reputations destroyed, the Duke arranged a run on the bank, causing it to collapse and destroy the economy of Ingerd.
The big problem for the Duke is that, along the way, he fell in love with his wife. However, because of his many affairs, which were part affair, part espionage where he’d use these women as cover to receive information, the FL became quite cold to him, so he believes his wife hates him. It ironically lead to a spiral where he would treat her badly to goad her into a reaction because that was the only rise he could get out of her, which made her dislike him even more, so he’d be a little more blatant about the affairs to try to get a jealous reaction out of her, which would make her dislike him even more, and so on. He does not appear to have realized her viper of a friend has reported everything to her every time, which wrecked his chances of winning her over from the beginning.
The original plan was for her to be discarded along with her father and brother. She’d be accused of treason, since she became a Bessen citizen through her marriage to the Duke, executed, and he’d be able to remarry a noble woman and carry on. But now he loves her and wants to keep her. He knows she’ll hate him for killing her family, so he stashes her in the isolated monestary so she wouldn’t hear anything about it, which would enable him to keep visiting her and playing happy couples, though he had immediately killed her family, even before she was sent away.
He is desperate to impregnate her because then she would be less able to leave him, even if she ever finds out the truth. She was previously trapped into staying married by the business relationships he had with her father, but those are gone and she’d be able to divorce him if he didn’t come up with a new way to cage her. Having a child with her would also give him a public excuse to keep her around. It is uncertain if he planned to always keep her at the monestary or at least away from the capital so she’d never learn what he did, or if he was going to move her back to the capital once she had his child and was completely trapped.
Now that they’ve gone back in time, it appears he remembers as much as she does, but he is still in denial and hoping it’s a dream. His dream caused him to go running to the monestary to check if she was dead (which is a little silly, considering she was already in the house he was in). This disrupted and delayed carrying out Project Canary. He is now in a position where he is obligated to carry his plan out, but does not want his wife to commit suicide again, and he likely hopes that since he didn’t kill her family this time around (yet), he can get her to love him, or at least stay married to him. He seems to be figuring out that she also remembers what happened,, which will no doubt change his tactics.
As for the FL: she cannot report all the shady stuff she found because the government and the king are the ones who told him to do all of the stuff. Instead, she is trying to wreck Project Canary by ensuring her family backs out of the investment deal the Duke used to frame them, and by declaring divorce. If she declares divorce, then the Duke pulling all of his funds from the bank won’t cause a run on the bank; people will just think he’s petty, not that the bank is failing.
He has a lot of power and seems to really want to trap and impregnate her so she can’t ever leave, after which he’ll sort out her family. But she is now disgusted by him, and is resorting to using the public as a shield to get away from him.
Saber2341
I don’t really understand his goal 🤔