I know that a lot will not like who she ends up with and I personally would have preferred that she ends up with XY but what can we do, the author chose to end that ship way too early T_T

There are probably a lot of things that I didn't like about how the author dealt with some events but the worst are:

--Seriously, what did XY do to you author, to cut him off that way after you made her spend so much time with him? Poor XY, first the author makes him fall for her hard, then he is to believe she is his sister, then he has to completely forget about her existence, and finally he abolishes his martial arts to remember her but when he regains his memories it is already too late for him to fight for her. This kind of second male lead is just too pitiful... I am not saying that XY's decisions are right but just look at it from his point of view and you'll understand many of his decisions. For example: when he sends her to the prostitute camp, she is a kind of "shame" to him since he is the crown prince of his dynasty but another empire fooled him into marrying someone that he has no interest in when he clearly chose someone else, at that time she has a really bad reputation, he also knows nothing about her side of the story and in his eyes the fact that the southern empire tried to kill her means that she is a pawn that was used to provoke his empire. So even if it was any other man, he wouldn't have sided with her nor treated her nicely and if he actually did that would be a miracle!

--Lan Bing, that **** should have been punished for the aphrodisiac WAY MORE than how he was punished, because the r*pe was entirely his fault. If you pay more attention to that scene you'll understand several things, I don't want to side with JFL but it was not his fault that our poor MC suffered that night. He had already fallen very hard for our MC by the time that night happens and he is the type who wouldn't want to betray his love in any way so the way he dealt with the "unknown women" that night can be understood. Of course understanding doesn't mean accepting!! In the 2nd version he is punished by JFL at the end, so I will reluctantly dismiss my dissatisfaction for this issue.

--I hate how the author disclosed to JFL that our MC was the "unknown women" he used that night to deal with his aphrodisiac, there should have been more to that, so I find that the author rushed that part. Seriously that was one of the most important things in this story but it was resolved like it was nothing. That I CAN'T accept!!! The author made our MC agonize because of that night and the loss of her child and made JFL agonize because he thought she loved someone else and lost someone else's child and when he finds out it was him the issue was brushed off as fast as it was mentioned. THAT is just irrational! The 2nd version is so much better since it deals with this point in a way that left me satisfied and happy about how the author disclosed this thing through that letter our MC left him in that sachet!

Anyway all in all even if I preferred XY, the hatred the author showed us between our MC and JFL was a bit too reliant on fake facts so there aren't many things that we can fault him with. The real sinner in this story is none other than her "father". When I found out about that I was like ????? All the things she suffered were either directly or indirectly caused by him. He certainly wins the award of Worst Dad Ever!!!