Call it hating man or anything but I will never understand how thia bastards do a lot and still have a second chance. Like no, I would kill you. When he turn back in time and go to her I was like "dude get the f*ck off" CAUSE WHYYYYYY leave her alone. She swan you frog. And like I kinda get that she was sad, he had a bad childhood but I DO NOT CARE. I will not accept.

When I talk to my sister about this book, I cried and she wanna know why, she said female lead was s*upid and she get what she should get. IM SORRY??? I do understand its bad to make someone do something, marriage, when they dont want to BUT THE AFTER MATH SHOULDNT BE THIS. She was all alone, only has her child and so scared and then lost him too. Like I said, I would kill him.

And you know like I still dont get why it always took male leads A LIFE to understand their feelings. I am here for drama. I am here for to see a man cry. But still... Female leads always the one who have bad lives and somehow male leads always has second chances. Well grow up dude. Some of us also have bad childhood DO YOU SEE ME LEAVING MY PREGNANT HUSBAND well you cant but I wouldnt tho.

Im happy for happy ending. But im so sad that he also have this happy ending.

I would definitely say he was also physically abusive because straight up r*pes her. All the s*x scenes in the main story were very uncomfortable to read about and we find out in the side stories that she actually felt no pleasure.

What gets me the most honestly is how horribly his household treats her, she is never given medical help, she has no servants to help her, she is starved. She is heavily pregnant btw, and the servants do this believing she cheated in their master. The audacity of these servants. FMC is a royal, she was basically raised as the King's daughter, even if she cheated (which she would never) they had no right to ever treat her poorly in any way.

Also, I just hate how the FMC justifies the hell the MMC put her though simply because he hated red hair (her hair colour). Yes I get that he was ab*sed by a women with the same hair as her, but that can never justify him abusing someone else simply for their hair colour. She keeps talking about his trauma with red hair, NO it was just his trauma with one very horrible women.

I really wish the story ended here because then the conclusion would be that the MMC went insane. That he spiraled to the point that he thinks he has a chance to redo the past and be with the FMC again. The way this part of the story was going, I genuinely thought that that was how it was going to end and I was so happy about it. This would have been such a realistic and good ending for me, making essentially half the novel a dream/delusional of the MMC where he is acting out a life with the FMC when she is actually not there. It would be such a good plot twist.

Sadly there are side stories going into the HEA of the FMC and MMC together in the alternate timeline.

a second chance and a happy ending (I skimmed the chapters after ch 28 and saw that there's a redeption arc. Imma pretend that didn't exist cuz there's no redemption needed).

Bro, the ML rejected the marriage but the FL wanted it, so the King forced it and so the ML has no option but to accept. Yet the FL is pitiful. The ML isn't without fault to but ultimately, the blame should fall on the FL but people seems to blame the ML. It's disgusting.

Hyacinth, while she does love him, forces the marriage on him without understanding why he dislikes her. And as for Ethan his trauma greatly limits him in forming bonds and accepting Hyacinth even though he is attracted to her. Additionally, the nanny will piss you off because her meddling is what led to their misery in their first life. I believe if she hadn't drugged the Duke that they would've bonded over time.

However, I do have to acknowledge that his actions following their intimacy (which he had no recollection of) were undeniably cruel. The hurtful words and subsequent actions were unnecessary and deeply damaging to her and their almost non existent relationship.

The first side story, recounting the aide's POV of what happened to the ML following the FL's su*cide, was deeply haunting. The ML's raw emotions were truly palpable—the regret, the self-blame, you name it. I think it explained really well why the ML acted the way he did in their second lives.