
Same, I dropped this too. Thought there was potential but after that kind of hardship they go through, idk if I could see a positive ending. Just seem like it will be endless chapters of heartbreak and I'm not here for that lol my heart can't handle it. Might dip back here after a few months just to see if the story ends up changing but I doubt it.

You are in for a ride. Anyway, spoilers from @Affectionate-Guess25 in reddit
So there's a huge backstory relating to MLs mother that we piece together bit by bit through many chapters, and it's the main reason why he's doing everything
ML believes that FL has turned his mother over to his family for the reward money years ago (FL was sheltering her when she ran away), then his brother has locked his mother in a room under ML's childhood room and starved her to death, without ML's knowledge. When ML found out how his mother died, that's when he turned into a mindless killer.
The ML knew FL from long ago from a distance, he was attracted to her spirit and how she secretly listened to him playing the cello, and it was actually the ML, who told his mother to go hide at Lee-Yeon's house, so when his brother told ML that it was Lee-Yeon who turned the mother in, he went beserk
The moment he regained his memories (after 100 chapters of romantic bliss), the first thing he remembered is that the reason why he came to the island in the first place was to kill FL
That's when we readers get the first heart attack.
after this, ML decides to continue playing along FL's lies for a week, but his cruelty seeps through, he demeans and insults FL all the way through, while in some moments he's being sweet to FL so it takes her a while to catch on that he's regained his memories.
But the process is about 60 chapters of back-to-the-beginning FL being terrified half the time cause she's not sure.
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day of the 4th round of competition, FL decides to set up an orchestra in the forest for her round, he comes in a suit, destroys a cello to shreds and with his murderous self back he cruelly insults the FL multiple times while strangling her, he tells her why he hates her (mother story) while FL is still trying to hold onto him.
It's a very brutal scene emotionally cause he says things to hurt FL to her core and he succeeds in it while smiling
FL was trying to explain the truth, that it was his mother who wanted FL to call his family, cause she wanted to see her son one more time, but by that time all the lies she made up about their marriage made it impossible for ML to even listen to her. Also, FL though the money she got after after that was the mother saying thank you for helping her. She never thought it was a reward for a fugitive, and she used it to treat his uncle's cancer
After this she slumps into a deep depression, then she pulls herself together when she finds out that she's pregnant
although I'm not sure how long is that going to last now that they're back under the same roof thanks to that sycophantic b*stard of a brother
Dropping after the spoilers. I hope the artist will change the novel bc wtf. Why do ppl ruin their own work I will never understand