A misunderstanding fic, mixed with second chances. No rebirth or isekai, just straight amnesia. A solid 4 stars because while it packs an emotional wallop, it is not for everyone, and not for every mood.

At the current moment, I want to set all of the "good" people on fire, for being awful, hypocritical wretches who are worse than the "bad" people. Seriously, they are puppy-killing garbage people, so I do not understand why they get to play at being so much better than the Everetts. If a giant fissure opened up and the entire area got s**ked straight down to Hell, I would honestly feel like they deserved it, and good riddance.

Our main character and female lead is the much ab*sed adoptive daughter of the "bad" guys, i.e. the Everett family.

She wasn't given a choice when she was married off to the "good" Valentino family heir, but by God, are they going to make her personally responsible for the sins of her father (which is why "good" is in "", the fake scumbags). No matter what she does, she's going to be seen as the evil spawn of the Everetts.

The thing I like best about our MC:

She spends her marriage being wrongfully pillaried by her new husband and his "good" family, household, and estate, after quietly smothering her hopes and dreams of a fresh start to death and deciding to endure on her own terms.

Anyways, our female lead is too gorgeous for her own good. Our "good" guy male lead, who agreed to marry her for assistance with his lands, is instantly and wildly attracted, much to his own disgust. He sends out mixed signals, treating her like catnip one moment, then wanting nothing to do with her the next.

For those readers who have such concerns/ preferences on ab*se levels:

Once he gets amnesia, suddenly he forgets all the qualms and political drama which kept him from acting on his attraction to his beautiful wife. And, now that his head is out of his ass and his grief blinders off, he also notices that she is genuinely wary and afraid of him. A bit of a soul searching rummage into how's he's treated her, and viewing her actions without prejudice skewing them, and we have a recipe for a reformed lovesick sap trying his best to get his reluctant wife to love him. Which I am very on board with.

To be fair, they both came by their misunderstandings honestly.

The pair are no where near as messed up as "What it means to be you, " which is a relief, but they're pretty messed up.

Read if you are feeling wronged and want to soak in it until pruny, because our MC is very, very wronged. Then enjoy as they try to make it up to her and get her forgiveness. Her husband better crawl through glass to beg for her forgiveness, or I am plummeting the rating from 4 stars to 1.

• ETA: Rating reduced. His attitude so far has remained that of a controlling boor who is undeservedly forgiving of the past wrongdoings he can't remember, (but is certain aren't that bad), since it's easiest and gets him what he wants the fastest: s*x and lovey-dovey-ness with his hot wife. And he's getting annoyed she isn't falling in line. He is not remorseful, doesn't try to earn forgiveness or trust, and instead bulldozes all of her boundaries because he finds them inconvenient. I really, really hate him.

I'm giving this three more chapters for him to become remorseful, or I'm dropping it.

Lily has run away with Charlotte!! It's finally happening and that tr*sh ML is realizing how much he has f*ked up. Chapter 60.1 is still her running away but I'm rooting for her making a complete escape so I'm here to the end.

it was not only because of the way she was dressed to seduce him by her disgusting fraud of a father, but the letter Theo was given by the Countess? Or his aunt

ML is Theodore Valentino, he apparently fell in love at first sight, but she is the 'enemy' so acts cold, though after his memory is erased, he is overly clingy and protective, which honestly is a little annoying as he doesn't have boundaries and really acts bipolar throughout until the end. He is very handsy during his amnesia arc, not backing down even when lily clearly wants nothing to do with him (understandable though) after regaining his memories, he reverts back to his normal self, however slightly more outlandish at lilys changed behaviour, after she escapes he realises how much he loves her and chases after her. She is unforgiving rightfully so

MC is lily everett (lily valentino is much better than being tarnished with her mentally abusive family. She was originally a child when adopted. She also fell in love at first sight, however after enduring enough neglect at hands of the servants who would stuff dead animals in her area, not to mention the duchy that despised her (hated protagonist tag is real) she came into the hands of depression itself and spiralled out of control. She is a cold, though more passive and reluctant however she can and will defend herself especially when it came to charlotte. She doesn't hesitate to be snarky

The description of her disguise with the masked arm looking healthy, but when reverted back to her original appearance, turns slender, was irking

greedy Everett family or whatever, they are the ones who "sell" her off to a marriage to the Valentino family (Theos family) She has two brothers both disgustingly in love with her, the second brother is the irrational Hessen I believe, the first, the future head (not much of a future though) is ohen, or owen, a disgrace of a person. He has to firmly ingrain the fact that she is "his" which frankly is disturbing then their is the flirty and slimy bastard lenon who is the family friend (red head) then in the family, she is known as the despised daughter, not even illegitimate, but merely a lowly orphan whose father is unknown. She was adopted for political and trade usages

Charlotte her personal maid, who helped her escape, consistently on lilys side, and honestly the true MVP people even say lily x Charlotte was the way to go

the fact she almost got r***d as well by her shitty brother friend, (lenon) shaping out the one time us readers were thankful that Theo came to enact revenge (and 2ML as he came first)

They spent 2 years? Can't remember, away and she learned to make peace with herself and grow, while he learned boundaries, resulting in her to come back to him, leading to the true end, with their cute child

The MC is a super depressed duchess who's entire life is depressing, the MC is a douchebag to the MC and only the MC, her eldest brother is a possessive freak and her other brother is really weird, her father is also heartless. They're the only particular characters I can think of, everyone else just hates her, like, 99% of the story hates her, literally the entire world, all but 1 person hates her.

decided to runaway and divorce ML after he lose his memory again (due to the magic that causes by her tr*sh family) were very well written by the author about how the pain and suffering all there's left for her after their big fight. Towards the ending, she didn't get together the ML as they give time for each other to heal both emotionally and physically before decide to get back together even they still keep in contact. I like the way the author make them deal their own heart first by healing themselve and the ML respect her decision eventhough he miss her. I love Theo - First I hate him, but after continue reading, I like him, Both of them deserve happiness.

With all honesty, if I were in her place I'd have divorced that s*upid *rseah*le and married the fluffy Zen. But that's just me. I love bright people.

he knew deep that MC was innocent, but continued to treat her like sh*t and grow the misunderstanding ONLY because he didn't want to admit his feeling.

I especially liked how she still divorced the ML after defeating the villains despite her realization that she still loved the ML and took time to heal and work on herself instead of just forgiving and forgetting like they do in so many other novels with scummy MLs.