As usual, the author doesn’t even bother trying to make the story remotely believable. Why would you ask for a loan from someone who has less money than you? And more importantly, why would anyone agree to that? If that asshole needed money, he could’ve just taken out a loan himself using his wife’s name. So this is supposed to be the part where we feel sorry for Mincheol?
For once, it would’ve been nice to read a story about moving on, where the FC does what so many of us do: leave the past behind and keep living her life. She could’ve found happiness with Bern, honestly, with the way the story unfolded that would’ve felt far more believable. It’s such a shame. These authors just don’t have the courage to do something truly original.
This smut is ridiculous. At this point, I’m expecting him to get her pregnant again while she’s already pregnant, like a cat
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.
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All that assault just for him to get his picket fence ending. Crazy work.
Yeah, Leon is completely insane. His plan from the very beginning was to run away to Colombia with Grace and the baby. On top of that, while Grace was on the run, he kept Jimmy alive just to make him talk about Grace’s past
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may i ask where did u read the novel ? is it an English translation? last time i read was when grace escaped leon after exposing the rebels base
I read it on Born to be novel. It’s free up to a certain point, but after that you need a subscription
Wow, is this supposed to be “awe” for the readers? I swear what the fuck is the authors thinking when making these pathetic stories? I know grace isn’t weak but she definitely is a bird brain falling for the man who’s a rapist. She has the audacity to think a rapist has some sort of redemption. Wonder how she or Leon would think if their daughters grow up and being in the same situation as their mother during Leon’s evil era.
NAH even more of an audacity for the author to give Leon daughters.
Look, I do agree with you, but we’re talking about fictional stories, and sometimes we can accept things we’d never tolerate in real life. Usually I’m the first person to hate stories like this, but honestly I think the author handled it pretty well here. Grace forgives Leon because she realizes she’s a lot like him. She understands that she’s both a victim and, in some ways, responsible for his pain too. They were both manipulated as children. Grace’s forgiveness comes after a pretty solid redemption arc, at least that’s how it felt to me while reading the novel.
Leon is a victim of rape? Come on now these stories are too forgiving for insane acts but whatever again it’s fiction but I wish there’s reality check
Leon’s father was killed by the rebels, and Grace’s mother was involved in it too. He was convinced that Grace had been sent to his house to seduce him, because that was the kind of thing her mother did. In the end, Grace comes to understand this and tells him that she accepts that he, too, was a victim — just like her — of the adults’ manipulation.
Unfortunately, rape is an omnipresent element in a lot of fiction, and the saddest part is that, to soften it for the audience, it’s portrayed as a “gentle” and even pleasant experience for the victim. We already know that’s how these stories tend to work, which is why we’re free to interpret it differently.
So, is loan sharking actually legal in Korea? And more importantly, is it really normal for children to end up paying their parents’ debts? Could someone please explain how this works? Thanks
No, loan sharks are not legal in Korea, East Asia, or anywhere for that matter. And this leads us to your second question, because it is not legal, unlike most debts that die when the principal signatory (in this case, Wonwoo's dad) dies, illegal debts allow lenders to hunt down next of kin to ask them for the payment instead (in this case, Wonwoo and his siblings). Though Wonwoo initially avoided legal debts by renouncing his inheritance, his dad's illegal debts will continue to haunt him as that is what illegal loaning has to do in order to enforce payment. Basically, since its illegal, there is no legal court order and punishment to force Wonwoo to pay the loansharks back, instead the loansharks resort to violence, coercion, and threats to make their debtors pay. But when discovered by law enforcement, loan sharks will face a fine of $34-40,000 and at least a 1-12 months, or more if the case is severe, imprisonment. At least, that's what Korea's law says. Hope this helped. :3
You can read more abt it here:
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/20/1047735128/the-underground-world-of-debt-collection-in-south-korea
And here:
https://share.google/Xgd6nHgNyPuL6nsxu
Someone already answered but no its not legal and yes if the original debtor dissappear or dies their close family(in most cases relatives) will shoulder it—usually loan sharks even increase the money js to trap the person paying for it lol
Thanks everyone for the replies, you’ve all been super kind (⌒▽⌒)
I can already imagine they’ll reveal that Sei’s mother was actually a good person and a victim of injustice. But who cares? Why is it that in these stories, instead of going after the people who did the harm, they always take it out on the kids? And what does she even want? If she needs money to buy gifts for her son, she can always go sell her body and let her daughter live
I'm sorry, I totally agree with you but hit the wrong vote. So tiny and hard to hit, please fogive.
It's fine <3
Why didn’t she get an abortion?
Abortion only recently became legal in 2021 in SK, but also I've seen SK tabloids report on idols merely going to an OB/GYN even though there's plenty of valid health reasons to do so that are not related to sex or pregnancy. It was always possible to find doctors willing to perform abortions but there's also a stigma against it. I've seen those used as excuses before in K-fiction, but I think SK audiences would accept those reasons without as much question as other countries.
Women used to get abortions even when it was illegal
I watched the raws all the way to the end. Since I don’t understand Japanese, I don’t know all the details of the dynamics, but I can say that Riku’s girlfriend is not pregnant. They break up badly (she even slaps him later on), but eventually they manage to apologize to each other. They don’t get back together, though. Kyoko doesn’t go back to Maeno and starts dating the other guy instead. In the end, Riku gets to attend the school he wants, and eventually Mr. Maeno gets back together with Kyoko. They visit his wife’s grave together to ask for her blessing, and Riku is happy to have Kyoko as his father’s partner.
where did you read the raws??
On webtoon
Yes it's true I too saw. Still want Takahiro!!