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What happens?

lots and lots and lots of rape. leon still keeps grace prisoner for a long period of time. forgot the guys name, i think it's jimmy, but he sends grace a letter basically telling her to kill herself because she's been imprisoned by leon and the elders gave up and won't do anything (her people won't try to help her). leon receives the letter and reads it and keeps it. i guess he feels some kind of pity for grace because he doesn't give the letter to her.

grace escapes and still thinks the revolutionary army is trying to help her flee from leon. she goes to the postman peter who is a secret agent working for leon and he rats her out. peter is supposedly about her strike her, but leon kills him. he ATTEMPTS to kill grace, but doesn't end up going through with it.

leon then takes grace and relocates her elsewhere to abuse her and mistreat her. he starves her, too, and has some sort of tantrum because she tried to leave him so he treats her even worse. he starts treating her like a dog/object and gets her a collar and starts calling her "bella" which i believe was his childhood dog. he's fucked in the head basically. he calls her mean and nasty things and continuously tries to manipulate her with the "you're the only one for me, this is your life purpose, you're stuck with me, it's always gonna be like this" nonsense.

one of the craziest things to me was leon has these split personality moments where he acts all kind to grace, like sometimes sleeping with her or comforting her to getting her cake. i guess grace warms up to it and then one moment she gets emotional and tells leon she's always liked him when they were younger. and then leon rapes her again. i genuinely stopped reading for a long time because the switch up was almost psychotic and the whole story made me sick. anyway, grace finds out she's some illegitimate child of the royal family.

leon ends up proposing to the grand lady (throughout her imprisonment, he taunted her about this). more rape. lots of rape after the night of his engagement, but he tries to impregnate grace. really horrific scene, because grace was crying about how she didn't want a child. he does it for days to really make sure she gets pregnant. grace does end up getting pregnant, and she gets super sick and weak and loses body fat. later, leon tells grace that both her real father, a royalist, and the revolutionary army declared she was dead. it's not true (because it's leon) and grace refuses to believe him.

then, grace starts plotting to pretend to love leon back in a way she thinks will manipulate him and plot an escape from him. i'm gonna be very honest, i skipped some of the parts like grace being given freedom to roam around while being followed by leon's men or something, and finds her half-brother joe. joe reveals all this information (mostly about her mom, angela) and the money he and grace were given to leave the revolutionary army.

graces mom left some kind of letter telling her about how twisted and manipulative the army was. she was apparently manipulated all her life to show the upmost devotion to the army and kill the royals (which, we learn, is her family). angela went through with her pregnancy and had grace only because the army wanted her born so they could brainwash her into killing the royal family. as i said i did skip most of this part, but i skimmed through another person's spoilers and they explain the next part well:

"Now, this is when Leon finally started to get what was coming to him. Grace secretly leaves Joe’s place still pregnant with the letter from her mother and a bunch of gold bars. Grace realized the Revolutionary army was corrupted and evil just as much as Leon Winston. She sought out a plan to use Leon to take down the revolutionary army. Leon was thrilled because this was why Leon let her leave the Annex in the first place. Things were finally going as he planned; which was to use Grace to lore out the rebels’ hideout. After she gave up the rebel’s base, Leon assumed Grace was going to come running back into his delusional arms. Which doesn’t happen.

After Grace revealed the rebels’ base she then skips town, evading Leon’s army of people watching her every move. Grace uses her inheritance to stay at motels while secretly calling in rebel forces, while going on the run from Leon. At this rate, Leon was going absolutely crazy, losing his mind for losing the woman. He cares more about the woman than the child she was forced to conceive. He counted every day, hours, minutes and seconds he has been away from Grace. Recalling every second he spent with her before she left him… Leon was stuck in a constant loophole of despair."

sigh, i'm lazy and it's a pain to recall this novel so i'll quote the summary the same person did.

"Below is the continuation of Leon Winston’s demise and Grace Riddle’s somewhat of a freedom.

At Christmas Eve, Leon Winston was awarded a Christmas miracle. As he was decorated as the hero who took down the rebels and his military status went from being a captain to viscount. Leon on the other hand, couldn’t care less about his ranks. All he cared about was losing the love of his life, Grace. He began to ponder and dwell on the past. He deemed himself as an ignorant fool for losing Grace and the unborn child.

Meanwhile, Grace is sipping Ginger ale and eating chocolate. Residing in temporary motels not too far from Leon’s location. Since she can’t travel by sea while being pregnant, she had to resort to moving from one location to another to not allow Leon to catch on to her. Grace was experiencing a normal pregnancy without experiencing the constant oppression from her sick baby daddy, Leon.

He finally did manage to talk to Grace’s half-brother Joe and threatened him to leek everything Grace had told him before she disappeared. Or else Joe’s wife, children and him would all be placed into a concentration camp. Joe willingly complied as Grace’s prior instructions to him. Joe showed Leon Angela’s journal. After going through the journal and hearing about what Grace and him talked about that day, Leon goes into a frenzy of self blame and guilt about how he had treated her. He acknowledged he was an ignorant fool who mistreated his woman. She was going through something much worst and he didn’t even have the decency to believe her. Or even trust her words. (He felt like crap lol, good)

Later, Leon’s people suspected Grace to be the one who frequently called his call-in facility to report rebel sightings. Leon manages to catch her on the act during one of these calls from her and plead her to come back to him. During this conversation, Grace asked him to ‘Try Begging’ for her to come back. As embarrassed as he was, he apologized with a fake and insincere apology. Grace didn’t accept the apology, which made him feel like sh*t for saying it in the first place. (This was kinda like wounding his pride. lol I say f*ck his pride man. After the sh*t she had to experience and do this is NOTHING). Grace ended the call with her echoing questions to him ‘Do you still not love me? Are you unhappy?’

Grace disappeared off of Leon’s radar again after this call for over 4 months. (I think this is POSSIBLY when the 4th season of the Manhwa will come out) Leon Winston continues to stumble to find Grace. He drew vivid descriptions of her on posters. Grace couldn’t go anywhere without sunglasses covering her eyes. Grace even dyes her hair to throw off the description of the posters. She has been using fake alias everywhere she went. Winston out here going cray-cray searching for her whereabouts, through every nook and cranny. (Lol)

Back at the Annex/torture chamber, Leon was growing ever more scared, nervous and worried about Grace because it was her due date soon. Leon recalled the time when Grace told him she would k*ll the baby before she could call her mom. Which drove him to feel even more despair. If she got rid of the baby, she was forced to have with him, he would no longer have anything else to tie her to him with.

Grace had given birth at May 21st. Grace gave a successful delivery to a baby girl that had her turquoise eyes and Leon’s face and hair color. She gave birth at a temporary apartment she leased for the summer. After a month of nursing Grace was going to get rid of the baby by giving her for adaption. Even though reminiscence of Leon’s voices in her head told her not to give his baby away to anyone. The newborns mother tried to give her baby away several times before coming to a conclusion she couldn’t because she had grown too close to the baby. Grace acknowledged, giving her baby away will be no different than her mother’s compliance with the rebels, when Grace was a baby. Grace wanted to live her own life, just as her mother instructed her on her death letter. Grace realized the best way to obtain this happiness was with her baby.

Grace had registered the baby after 6 months of birth. The baby’s name is nicknamed Ellie (short for Elizabeth).

Meanwhile, Leon goes mad looking for Grace and the baby. While finding glimpses of her presence at places she used to live in. Reports came to let Leon know people had sighted Grace at apartments/motels but by the time he got there she was long gone. Leon scuffled and felt sorrow that he couldn’t even hold his baby daughter, let alone know her name. Grace took those privileges away from him, when she and the baby left him.

I am pleased to announce Grace is no longer imprisoned by Leon at any of his estates. (From ch 146-201 Grace and her baby is free from Leon’s grasp.)

Leon continues to pursues to hunt for Grace after 2 1/2 year after their encounter at the port trap, but he had absolutely no luck catching her.

Leon’s arranged marriage with the Grand Lady had been postponed. All the man has done for the past 3 years was smoke cigarettes and use drugs to sleep at his annex and reminiscence and his past memories with Grace. Taking the pills is the only way he can garentee seeing Grace again. (Okay, this is getting a bit serious now… he might actually overdose on these pills if he continues, but he can’t help himself) He hasn’t been able to see Grace for 2.5 years and that drove the love-sick man to want to lose his sanity.
Leon referred to himself as a dog, and any clue that Grace had left him before was like a bone to chase after her. But for 2.5 years had left the dog to dry. Parched, the dog had nothing to cling to other than his own devices, in which case for Leon those devices were drug, nicotine and alcohol. (None of which are good for his health in the long terms. In other words, Leon Winston was trying to slowly k*ll himself from depression.)

Grace had been dreaming about Leon’s violence towards her, while craving for his embrace. Recently, she had been longing for Leon’s touch. However, she kept reminding herself of all the horrific things he made her do, when he had locked her up at his private estates. The man was far from redemption. As we get to know Grace’s current life, where Grace’s is known by her alias, Anna. Grace was running low on money and therefore, resorted to working a working class job at a movie premiere office.

Grace felt lonely and alone being a single parent. She was 30 years old and thought at this age she would have a husband and children at this age. However, due to Leon Winston that future was robbed from her. Grace was peer pressured by her co-workers at the office to go on a date with the PR manager. Grace at first didn’t want to do it because it didn’t feel right for her, when continued to have lingering feelings for Leon. Grace was asked out by the PR manager a couple of times in the past of working there, but she respectfully let him down. However, after quite a number of times being asked out by him, she decided to give it a chance. She thought moving on with another man, living happily with him and the child, would bring Leon great discomfort and agony. But she still couldn’t sleep with that man, because she always reminded of the times how Leon had warned her that her body only belonged to him. Not to share her body with anyone.
She couldn’t go through with sleeping with another man, because all the memories of Leon flooded her, instantly. Grace ran away as soon as the PR manager was about to lay her down.

Grace continued to live the life of bliss with her daughter Ellie. Ellie was quite brilliant, just like her mother and father. She spoke and understood 2 languages at the age of 2. Ellie was showing her mother how to love. Ellie’s love was innocent, pure and wholesome. All the things Grace never received from anyone in her life. (In all of Grace‘s life, the people who claimed to have loved her were deceiving her or not truthful enough, Ellie’s love broke through those barriers and gave Grace the opportunity to experience unconditional love. Which was very much the most beautiful thing in the book, thus far).

Currently, on the latest chapter release, Leon grows anxious. The man wanted to hold his woman and child. However, since there was no sightings of Grace from any of his forces, for well over 2 1/2 years, Leon was broken and abandoned. Everyone wanted to talk about the most handsome, desirable, eligible bachelor in the kingdom, Leon Winston. Leon could care less about his fame. He was a deteriorating corpse who was abandoned by his owner, Grace. Not being able to find Grace and the child, whose name he still didn’t know. He had tried to use national magazines to his advantage. To make Grace jealous and enraged by announcing, him and the Grand Lady were about to get married real soon. He was like, ‘Grace, I’m about to get married to another woman, don’t you want me unhappy and miserable, while chasing after you? Come and get me. Give me a bone to chase after you.’ (Dude was literally dying to get her attention.) His tactics, however, didn’t work. Since Grace burnt the magazine newspaper as soon as she read it. (Lol) However, Grace also felt relieved in a twisted way? Because even after 2 1/2 years Leon was still obsessed enough to look for her.

Ellie tries to help a little boy, who got lost at a department store, who speaks Norden (the second language Ellie speaks). Then, Grace and Ellie met Police forces. The police forces recognized Grace and Ellie, from the Wanted poster and reported it to Leon. Leon was beyond thrilled to finally receive the ‘bone,’ he had been longing for by his owner. It was actually beginning to be harder for Grace and Ellie to run from Leon. Since Ellie was coming of that age, where she will start going to school soon. As Grace and Ellie continued to hide from Leon, her office job at the movie premiere made it very difficult at this time.

Meanwhile, there were still some remaining forces of the rebel, trying to reform. The rebel forces placed a ticking bomb at the movie theater, where Leon was scheduled to attend. Grace was the first person to expose the bomb’s location to the local authorities. In doing so, she had saved Leon’s life in the process.

Due to a co-worker’s injuries, Grace was forced to attend the movie premiere Leon was to attend that same night. The movie was about Leon and his ‘heroic’ act of taking out the rebel forces on Christmas Eve. The fictional, one sided movie had no mention of Grace. Who was actually the main reason the rebel forces fell in the first place."

that's where it's currently left off on (201, i believe). i read up to 192. here is the link to their comment for a more in-depth spoiler. https://www.mangago.zone/home/mangatopic/19301973/

thank You!

wow you deserve a reward for writing all that for us. thank you! I wish the book was finished but it looks like we'll have to give it a few more years.

you're very welcome.

Ahh, bless. You're my hero.

Tysm