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Hello there!
I was a novel reader until author blocked all online novels.
I can tell you about 20-30 chapters ahead? More less.

SPOILER ALERT!!!
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So, in the novel, Riftan and Max understand eachother a little bit better. However Riftan is going to be super overprotective of Max.
There is going to a a dispute between Riftan and Max's father.
As it is anticipated in this chapter, the duke accuses Riftan of invasion and Riftan accuses the duke of touching his wife.
This is mediated by the king.
Riftan was about to loose the trial, however Agnes cames with an idea.
Since Max's contribution was undeniabled in the war, she registers her in the magic tower without no one knowing at first.
That way, the duke was not "educating" his daugther but mistreating someone of the magic tower.
Riftan enrages becase that means that Max has to spend 3 years in the tower learning and he is completely opposed.
However that is how things goes.
At the end of the season he is like... I'm not going to wait for you. You stab me in the back, blablabla, to the end, feel guilt.

Then then next season stars with Riftan POV when he was younger. Why he was towards Max like this. And it was because he was supposed to be a high knight son, but he abandoned him and his mother. Instead of fighting and try to thrive, his mother was always sad and doing almost anything while he had to do everything. That's when he sweared that he was never going to be like that.
Then you have the story about how he got strong working, how got his intelligence, how he met Max, how he became as a mercenary, jow he met Ruth and finally, how he got super strong and super big. Also how did he got Anatol, the king's favor, Agnes frienship, the traicion of the duke amd how he manage to marry Max.

The story stops there and you jump into the present, 3 years later of Max departure
She's really good at earth/defensive magic, with friends, almost no babbling/suttering so you feel like GO GIRL!!
She's been working really hard to graduate ahead of time and the profesors offer her to go on a campaing to graduate sooner and in this campaing is going to meet Riftan.

BUT remember they hadn't seing themselves in 3 years, nor speak or write and they kind of end up.im bad terms so.... you can imagine.
Max met all the crew and when she was about to meet Riftan, Authot stopped the publications.
My anger could not be descrived in that moment hahaha

Sorry for the long post >.<

Thank you for the explanations!
Could I ask what do you mean by author blocked the online novels? Official ones too? How many volumes are there?

(Spoilers ahead for those in the comments)
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So, by the end of Book 1, Maxi is forced to leave Anatol to train as a mage. This decision is not made out of personal ambition or selfish desire, but rather it's part of a calculated plan that Princess Agnes thought of in order to protect Riftan from the political and legal consequences of his actions (Beating Maxi's father).

While Riftan beating Maxi's father was arguably the only genuinely redeemable action Riftan ever takes on Maxi’s behalf, it places him in danger of punishment. Maxi’s departure is meant to protect him, not herself.

As expected, Riftan is upset by this decision and unfairly lashes out at Maxi. He refuses to see Maxi off when she boards the ship and coldly tells her that if she leaves, he will not wait for her, and he'd erase her from his mind—essentially forgetting all about her. He shouts at her, tells her to "get the hell out" of his room, and Maxi ends up leaving in tears. Only after she's gone does he collapse emotionally, admitting that he lied, that he would, in fact, wait for her and that he cannot live without her. The narrative frames this breakdown as a moment of realization and supposed emotional growth. Three years later, Maxi returns.

At this point, we're led to expect some form of reckoning or at least an acknowledgment of his earlier cruelty, relief at her safe return, or even a sincere attempt at reconciliation. Instead, Riftan does the opposite. Upon their reunion, he pointedly ignores her. He avoids her, refuses conversation, and withholds any emotional engagement. This behavior is not neutral or passive; it's actively punitive. He spends the early part of Maxi’s return emotionally stonewalling her, forcing her into uncertainty and distress while never explaining himself, as "punishment" for leaving him. This prolonged emotional manipulation culminates in the infamous "banquet scene."

In retaliation, Maxi provokes Riftan by attending the banquet in a deliberately revealing dress and dancing with another man right in front of him. Her actions are immature and reactive, sure, but they are also a direct result of Riftan’s sustained avoidance and refusal to communicate. Rather than addressing the underlying conflict, Riftan responds with violence disguised as passion. He forcibly pulls Maxi away and has sex with her in a guest room. This doesn't occur once, nor in a momentary lapse of control.

He confines her with him for an entire week.

During this time, he repeatedly has rough sex with her despite her physical discomfort, emotional distress, and explicit protests.At one point, Maxi is crying and begging him to stop, yet he ignores her pleas—pretending as if he can't hear her. The scene itself doesn't read as consensual reconciliation but instead—at least from my perspective—as coercion sustained over days. When he finally stops, he smugly asks her, “Isn’t this what you wanted?”—a statement that reframes her earlier attempt to provoke communication as justification for her suffering.

What makes this sequence absolutely disgusting and egregious is that it follows directly after Riftan’s supposed realization at the end of Book 1. There's a noticeable lack of remorse, no offer of an apology for his earlier withdrawal, no accountability for his emotional punishment of Maxi upon her return, and no acknowledgment of the harm he's caused both before her departure as well as after her return. Instead, the story substitutes communication with sexual dominance and expects the reader to interpret this as romantic intimacy rather than borderline sexual abuse.

Far from demonstrating growth, this arc confirms that Riftan’s internal feelings—his guilt, fear, and obsession—never translate into meaningful behavioral change. Maxi bears the emotional consequences alone, and it pains me to witness an otherwise wonderfully written female lead be reduced to a sex object because of the ML's emotional volatility.

If you're expecting a "happy ending," after what was essentially a hellstorm of misunderstandings and miscommunication, then, honestly, it's best if you look elsewhere. At some point, Riftan finally tells Maxi that he's "proud" of her, but along with the lack of accountability or proper apology for his emotional avoidance during the entire first half of Book 2, him telling Maxi he's "proud of her" feels more like a hollow platitude than anything meaningful. Then at the end, he makes a dramatic scene by declaring a "knight's oath" to Maxi, but again, the gesture is incredibly hollow because of everything he had done to her and never once apologized for. All in all, I'd say to just drop it. It's "an ending," but I wouldn't call it a positive or even *good* ending. I think it speaks for itself when Maxi, in her own words, admits she's begun to feel more like a younger sibling than a spouse to Riftan because of his seemingly withered passion for her. So, after the festering disaster of watching them fumble and fail in their relationship, that's the best we get? The FL is left feeling like the little sister to her once obsessively horny husband. What mess this story has been, I swear.

Wow, thank you. You saved my time(⊙…⊙ ) I won’t read something shitty like this.

Oh F**** I thought it was going to be some redemtion arc or whatever but urrggg I hate when they do this.
Responding to the first question, at first author didn't want to publish them, so people started translating the raws, and it was a such massive success, that author changed his/her mind and block all non-official.
So for me, I had to wait more than 4 years to know the ending by a random person that replied to your post. I'm truly thankful, RabbitMage! ^^

Wow I've been wondering how this story ended for years and hearing how maxi feels like a little sister instead of a wife makes me want to shoot myself oh my god NOOOOO

Wow, thank you so much for taking the time to explain at length! ヾ(☆▽☆)

But whew, what a shit show! (╬￣皿￣)凸 I was really hoping for some sort of growth for him, what the hell are these author thinking.... Really, thank you for sparing us the anger reading!

Thank you for taking the time to reply! (=・ω・=)

And wow, what a trip. I am also very grateful to RabbitMage, I for sure ain't buying that stuff to read now!

Omg thank you for the spoiler - I’m not gonna read this shitshow

You're welcome for letting me spoiler the final arcs for you guys. Diehard fans of the series will swear by this story as being a work of high art when, in reality, it reads more like the author's barely disguised rape fetish with magic and medieval world-building sprinkled in. Anyway, Riftan doesn't improve in any profound or meaningful way, so if you're waiting for that to happen, you might as well drop the story now. Or not if you're mostly in it to follow Maxi's journey, which is understandable. However, I do have to stress again that Riftan will not improve by the end. The last-minute "character development" the author gives Riftan feels less like true payoff and more like cheap, rushed damage control in an attempt to salvage their marriage. He doesn't truly reckon with the hell he put Maxi through, and in the end he not only has his way with her in the most disgusting way possible while the narrative frames the moment as "reconciliation," but after basically assaulting Maxi for an entire week, she accepts his "apology" (which wasn't even an apology at all) and rewards him by giving him a blowjob... *Right after he SA'd her.... Just. Let that sink in.

I'll say he becomes *tolerable* by the *very last* volume/arc of Book 2—and I use that term *very* lightly—but I think he's harmed Maxi far too many times for his "development" to feel even remotely impactful.

holy shit thank u for spoiling im dropping if it follows the novel wow

Oh my God just when I thought it couldn't get worse!!! WTF! Thank you once again for the explanations at length!

Seriously, why do people generally consider this a good novel? It’s a manhwa too (╥﹏╥) Why is the author so beloved? And her other novel, which is EVEN MORE TOXIC, is just being released as a manhwa? ヽ(ಠ_ಠ)ノ ( ´ཀ` ) I'm just losing faith that there's any hope for most people ◉‿◉

Thank you so much for answering!!! yeah I'll definitely drop this one, I didn't have many expectations but SA is where I draw the line. So yeah thank you for telling me ^^ you really saved me for what would have been triggering as fuck lmao

If I had to guess, I’d say a lot of it comes down to the smut and the emotional fantasy attached to it. People will overlook an absurd amount of bad writing, toxic behavior, or outright disturbing dynamics if the story keeps delivering emotional intensity and sexual tension. That dopamine hit does a lot of heavy lifting. That’s why so many Riftan apologists latch onto scenes where he either does the bare minimum or makes some dramatic gesture of affection and use it as “proof” that he truly loves Maxi. They focus on those moments to soften or rationalize the abusive behavior so they can continue enjoying the romance without having to seriously grapple with the uglier parts of it.

Or, honestly, some readers just really love red flag characters and don’t care. Which would at least be the more straightforward answer.

Frankly, I should've dropped the series after the *first SA scene—where Riftan rapes Maxi on their wedding night. Though to be fair, I had only read the manhwa by that point, and the scene itself was far less explicit in there compared to the actual novel, where it was so damn obvious what was happening to Maxi, so I can't for the life of me understand how reader's could ever argue that what Riftan did to Maxi wasn't rape.

Anyway, it seems I've upset some readers again because of my spoiler, lol.

Yes to all of this!

I have read the ending. It was okay. Though Maxi never got pregnant again til the end. I have also read Riftan's POV since he was a kid.