So she was manipulated by her stepfather that she was beautiful and deserves the best man. That's why she rejected the marquis at her stepfather's order cause he's an illigemate child. After her parents died she became alone. She couldn't inherit the properties cause she's a woman. She was harassed by preverted old man and ever the 60 yrs old emperor. At that time her godfather came and took her in. He tried to r*pe her and she ran away to the temple to become a nun. That time the marquis came and took her in. After 1 year she became his mistress. For 6 year she was still a mistress and obeying him. After a night of mistake she ended up being pregnant. She wanted to abort the child but couldn't as in the empire it's forbidden to kill a child.

She left the marquis and planned to went to a far country. She even thought of giving up her child for adoption. She was depressing and her actions will make you cold. She has so much suicidal thoughts. It's depressing. So the story was now in while she gave birth to the child and thinking of giving him up for adoption. If I didn't give birth to the child I would still accept leaving him. But after painstakenly given birth to him and then give away to another! Sorry, I can't accept it!

I hope in future she'll try to take and raise the child and become stronger. But I don't have the time and energy to spend effort to this anymore. I lose my screw and dropped this.

He has a wife who he married for title. They didn't consummate and both are living with their mistress/ hidden lovers. He's fl's child's father. And BINGO! It turned out all the misery the FL faced was his doing. He couldn't accept her rejection so he planned everything. Remember the harassing and almost getting r*ped by her godfather was his doing. He wanted to obtain her so he calculated everything. Cold blooded! He's a scumbag. I thought it would be a misunderstanding between them. They'll kiss and make up. But such a scumbag is no needed.

Yes, ladies and gentleman you are right, the marquis is not the ml. It's the duke Harsian-ex noble. He and his twin sister looked alike. He is the true duke of Seilos. He is childhood friends with FL and they were pretty close as children. FL is also his first love and always protected FL before he threw away his name and family for the sake of his twin sister, Nibera, who is the current Duke of Seilos. He gave his name because of his guilt and not really because he does not want the dukedom. He feels guilty that he has everything while nibera lived like a rat, worse than the servants in their dukedom. Of course this is not his fault, it was his father's will. I also hated that the logic of why he didn't help the fl. Despite getting all news of the empire being a mechenary, he don't even know the fl's news while it was the hot topic of the empire! He calls her his 1st love but didn't help her. He's a pushover. I hope he would take back the power from her sister cause she's very cruel and abuses power to kill innocents. The ML would do much better than her.

Nibera:

She killed their father, the former duke. Harsian didn't do anything while his sister was mu*dering their father. He was just watching and crying while it was happening. He thought that now that their father is gone, his sister and mother will finally be happy and love him. But Nibera told him to leave the family, that if he really cares for her he needs to disappear. And their mother agreed to this, she told him that he already enjoyed everything in the family so it is his sister's turn to experience it. That he owes them that. Harsian was only 16 when he left the dukedom. He never returned until nibera asked for his help to convince FL to give up the baby.

The sister is ruthless power hungry and selfish. She married a woman and for keeping the heir title she wants the FL kid. She'll probably snatch the child if FL refused to give him. One thing I don't understand she could choose a man to impregnant her wife liked. She didn't do that And trying to snatch a mother's child. She hates her brother while he gave her everything. This swapping logic also seemed ridiculous to me.

In a man dominating society you can't hide the secret of pretending to be a man forever. You'll one day get caught! And receive dangerous punishment for betraying people as it's a patriarchal society! The logic of the mother and sister was s*upid and the weak pushover ML made it worst.

I really hate this kind of weak ML who give his everything to a person who doesn't appreciate it! I also kinda hate their mother for treating her son like that! I hope the ML will improve and take back the duchy and care for the fl. But as I said I don't have the time and energy to spend effort to this anymore. So this is dropped now.