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I’m reading the novel, so I’ll write down the spoilers for you guys. Feel free to read them if you want.

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Leon officially gets engaged to the Duchess, but he has other plans in mind. He realizes Grace has been brainwashed and wants her to understand that the rebels have been using her all along. His plan is to let her escape and secretly follow her back to the rebel headquarters. However, he needs a way to tie her to him, so he decides to get her pregnant.

Grace could endure the sex, but not the idea of becoming pregnant, and it causes her a lot of suffering. Unfortunately, she gets pregnant almost immediately, and the first part of the pregnancy is so rough that Leon is genuinely afraid she might die.

Still, Grace regains hope of escaping and decides to follow something her mother once taught her: the most powerful weapon against a man is making him fall in love. She completely changes the way she acts around Leon, becoming sweet and pretending to love him.

Around her fifth month of pregnancy, she finally manages to escape and goes to Nancy, Fred’s sister. Nancy gives her money and ammunition, but warns her not to return to the village. Grace contacts Jimmy, her boyfriend, who had already been informed by Nancy. That’s when Grace discovers that nobody had ever tried to save her, and Jimmy ends up leaving her.

She takes a train to see her brother. Of course, Leon has been tracking her the entire time and has organized a massive raid to capture the rebels, but Grace already knows this. When she reaches her brother, he gives her their mother’s diary, and Grace finally learns the truth.

The rebels had raised Grace specifically to undermine the monarchy’s credibility because she was the daughter of a nobleman. Her mother had wanted to save her and leave her at an orphanage, but she was never allowed to.

Grace completely breaks down from the pain and decides to get revenge. She leads the military to the village and has everyone arrested. Then she disappears again, because she still intends to get revenge on Leon too.

At the same time, Leon learns the truth about Grace and starts feeling overwhelming guilt for the way he treated her.

Meanwhile, Grace goes on the run, but continues helping the military capture rebels. Leon eventually discovers that she’s the one feeding them information and manages to speak to her on the phone. She mocks him and tells him he’ll never see her again.

Months pass. Leon starts having horrific nightmares about Grace dying during childbirth. His mental state becomes unstable, and he searches for her everywhere.

Grace gives birth to a baby girl. Her original plan is to leave the child with a good family and go to Colombia alone. But in the end, she can’t bring herself to abandon the baby. She decides to leave the child with Leon instead, leaving the baby outside his house — but then she comes back to take her again, finally admitting to herself that she loves the little girl too much and wants to raise her.

Leon realizes Grace had been at his house and figures out that she intends to flee to Colombia.

Grace boards a ship with the baby. Leon boards it too, but Grace spots him before departure and manages to escape again.

Two years pass. Grace is now living with her daughter Elizabeth, nicknamed Ellie — a little girl who looks exactly like her father but has her mother’s eyes. Grace works for a film company, and Leon discovers this by accident.

He goes to meet the little girl and cries with happiness when he sees her. He reunites with Grace and sincerely apologizes to her.

The two end up in a sort of forced cohabitation. Ellie grows attached to her father, and Grace realizes Leon has truly changed. She doesn’t forgive him, but she allows him to be a father to Ellie.

Later, Ellie is kidnapped by Nancy. Grace suffers a complete mental breakdown and grows much closer to Leon during the ordeal.

In the end, Ellie is rescued. Grace leaves for Colombia with her family — her brother, his wife, and their children. Leon stays behind in the Old Continent for a few months, overthrows the monarchy (as a gift for Grace), fakes his own death, and eventually joins Grace and Ellie.

Grace finally admits that she loves him. They get married and later have another daughter, Olivia.

Grace becomes a journalist, while Leon had secretly transferred all of his wealth to Colombia — a plan he had apparently been working on ever since he first decided to get Grace pregnant.

And that’s basically where the story is right now, since it’s still ongoing.