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Even if the ML had begged for forgiveness back then (in the 1st life), it would’ve been useless. The MC was too broken to ever fully recover.
I once read a novel where the MC did forgive the ML and they even had two children together. But even when the MC eventually died after the second child came of age, he still hadn’t healed from the pain the ML caused. In his drawings of a family, he never included himself
They're the definition of happy family on the outside, but the carrying scars never faded.