rapes MC when she was drugged, forces her to give birth to his child which was a product of r*pe when she actually wanted to abort the child, brings her to his house and lets his mother abuse her, lets his stepsister abuse her, lets her family abuse+humiliate her in public (it was like almost 1 whole chapter long before he spoke up to "protect" her), lets his stepsister and stepbrother almost r*pe her.....

abuse with her kid

she accidentally burnt her kid ONCE. Because of her depression, she smoked and drank secretly in a room away from the child. the kid sneaked in and she felt ashamed because she was smoking and drinking and clearly this is not a suitable situation for a 2 year old to be in. She wanted to push him away and then accidentally burned him.

how is this abuse?? Like anyone who smokes would know that it's possible to accidentally burn someone out of carelessness even without adding in the alcohol factor. I've dropped a cigarette on my own finger and burnt it before out of carelessness and I was sober. My friends and I have also accidentally burnt each other with cigarettes by accident. Like a careless flick of the lit end of the cigarette end and it flies in the wrong direction or like maybe talking and gesturing and the cigarette accidentally brushes against the person next to you. Are you going to call any of that abuse? Obviously not?! It was an accident. It happens.

Was she irresponsible as a parent? YES she was. She could've locked the door, she could've drank and smoked outside the house, or she could also not drink and smoke at all. But saying this is abuse is just too harsh. It was an accident. And not only that, it's a ONE TIME ACCIDENT in around 4 years.

abuse with her husband: again those were accidents.

Burn incident -> she wanted to burn herself and ML blocked it and got burnt instead.

stone incident -> she was throwing snow at him and there was a stone in the snow she threw at him.

Honestly I just feel like calling it abuse here is also just too much here. The reason is that both times, whether she was drunk or sober, she was consciously trying not to hurt him. She wanted to burn herself and didn't know he would block her and wind up getting burnt. In the stone thing, she threw snow at him. The fact that she purposely took snow to throw at him when there were other things she could've thrown shows she did not want to injure him. She purposely took the softest thing in the vicinity. She was emotionally unstable and careless yes, but she wasn't abusive. They were accidents.

I'm not justifying her actions and saying it's ok by arguing that it's not abuse. She was definitely emotionally unstable, irresponsible and even dangerous, but her actual actions just do nooooot constitute abuse.

Other than that, considering her circumstances and the fact that she was aware that she wasn't fit to be around and was ACTIVELY trying to avoid both her child and ML to avoid hurting them, I do feel like it makes her a lot more sympathetic.

I mean, he was soldier. He is mean bussinessman. But this is first story in which I really believe it because it wasn't just written down but also shown, which is rare. He was sweetheart to his wife, but quite brutal to his enemies - even females.

Only problem was - MC was behaving really, really bad. Borderline with child and domestic abuse, so there was this. But it was in line with storyline when she was amnesiac and just wanted to be better, so these shades were quite glossed over. Also, she had reason. Some people can never understand how desperate is man in depression and lost in self-loathing. They don't take it as excuse for harming others, but I think it was, if not good explanation, than at least honest one. And again, author used slight "deus ex-machina" to made it work. It's story after all.

The FL was understandably a victim of a series of unfortunate events that plunged her into despair and added to that; the circumstances of her and ML’s meeting (since we all know how that usually goes in this type of storyline, I’ll skip the deets), followed by the betrayal of her supposed best friend c*m stepsister and boyfriend as we have known early on and her disappointment towards her father for not protecting her following all these event causing her 3 views to distort making her the person she was in those 5 missing years. Her state of mind was unstable, added on to that of her mother in law’s action and words during her confinement period causing her to lost hope and plunges her self esteem even further down at one of her most vulnerable period. Confinement period is very crucial for postpartum mothers and they are not to be overly stimulated emotionally especially when the FL was already stretched thin from all the events that were happening prior to her son’s birth, and just when she started building up hope following her son’s birth, it was again destroyed by her mother in law’s action.

the build up towards her real feeling for the ML

the scheming sibling giving the MC drugs to sleep with the ML and subsequently having a child isn't something I like in either story.

now, I'm not super into one dimensional scheming characers or face slapping really that cnovels are rife full of, but the cp was cute enough to be able to suffer through all the evil adopted or half siblings in this novel

i don't don't really understand why she pushed the ML or their child away though, the she had low self-esteem so she didn't want to get close to them didn't make much sense to me as an explanation. I think the amnesia angle wasn't really needed either, reconciling with her full memory would have been nice instead.

also for people calling the MC abusive or the ML a r*pist you clearly don't have reading comprehension. The MC wasn't absusive to the ml, the first time was an accident and she wasn't trying to hurt him at all. She was feeling guilty after accidentally burning her son, so she tried to burn herself as a form of penance. The ML stopped her by letting himself get burned in place of her being injured, and for the other time she just wasn't thinking and pushed him away without thought over what she was doing. Imo, she didn't purposfully try to hurt anyone. Now for the ML calling that r*pe is too extreme he didn't r*pe her if anything it's a case of dubious consent. I'm frankly, not that bothered because giving the characters drugs to sleep together is pretty common as a trope in cnovels.

one last thing, I still hate the mls mother.😡 she had no right to take the mc's child from her. I hate that she even reconciled with that nasty women really

I don't like the FL's behavior after sbe gave birth because even if she felt depressed, she shouldn't hurt her loved ones like that. I was also angry when she accidentally puhed her son that it made her cigarette to hurt the cute boy, but when she broke down after that, I can't scold her anymore.

I kind of understand where her sense of inferiority came from and sympathizes with her, but it's not good for her to neglect the child. That's why I didn't really like her behavior that time, but thankfully they're fine now.

As for the ML, he's very good and honestly, most males in this story are very loyal and decent.

(except for some scummy cannon dodders)

I like the way the ML retaliated against the Lu brother and sister when they drugged the FL.

I really saluted when the ML didn't make the villainess get r@p3d like any other novels out there.

He made her have the taste of her own medicine, but also not dirtying his own hands in the process.

He just made her drink the drug and left her and her tied up brother inside a room.

THEY DIDN'T COMMIT in*est JUST TO BE CLEAR, THE ML JUST MADE HER DRINK A DRUG AND HAVE HER BROTHER WATCH HER SITUATION TOGETHER INSIDE A ROOM.

Considering that the Lu Sister wanted to be a mistress and the Lu Brother wanted to r@p3 the FL, it's a really well deserved punishment.