where daniel went & what exactly happened between him & fl, the countries' politics & where did the fl's family run off to (i wish her father & step mother a very painful death) & also I wanted to see FL & ML talking about their families & share the sadness & trauma. Sigh.

& last but not least, SHOW ME THE BABY: ( ( (

Anserina has been crushed her entire life by the people around her - her mother was an incredible beauty but selfish and neglected her daughter, and in the end was blamed for all the kingdom's woes and deposed so another, smarter and more scheming woman with a stronger family could take her place as queen. Anserina's father also ignored and neglected his daughter, and doesn't care about her at all because while she's pretty, she's not the ground breaking beauty her mother had and therefore is not as valuable to sell to another country. There is a revolution and the king and queen flee with their children but leave Anserina behind, and if the creepy old man had not bought her in advance from the revolutionaries her fate would have been terrible. Riven is the son of the above creepy old man, and he HATES his father for excellent reason. His father was obsessed with Anserina's mother, and since he couldn't have her re incited her revolution to have the daughter. Riven's father was also spectacularly abusive to Riven's mother and neglectful and hateful to Riven, and eventually beat her to death when Riven, now a teenager, has finally given up on getting his mother to leave his father. Their scheme to "save" Anserina from him is get her pregnant, because then she is considered "married" to the father of her child and therefore Riven's father can't legally put his hands on her.

The twist here is that Riven was already inclined toward Anserina because she had initially come to his attention as a marriage prospect, and he feels a kinship with her because their lives were both ruined by their fathers' selfishness and narcissism.

He said he loved MC and he really treated her well during her stay at his mansion but not during her journey from her kingdom to ML's place. She was treated like a livestock and sometimes they beat and insulted her. No wonder MC was angry when she knew that ML was the culprit behind the ruin of her kingdom.

I really hope MC wouldn't easily forgive him for the humiliation that she suffered but too bad that's not happened. He even made use of his injury to propose to MC just to make her stay. I didn't like that kind of manipulative ML.