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Let's see for the options:

  1. They couldn't stand him and did what the girls in the original fairy tales did.
  2. They couldn't stand him and he finished them like Blue Beard

Since he feels he has nothing to hide and even tells her I go for 2.

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I was thinking about Blue Beard too

It helps to be famous... and feared.. if you get away with it. He did. It's not a fairy tale.

It's a cautionary story about marrying a strange guy with many missing wives.