So, to sum up:
- Some incident happened 10 years ago that the FL forgot the full details about, which the ML and her brother do remember. Apparently, it was something serious and both the brother and ML were somehow involved, since the brother does know about it too and doesn't want the FL to remember the full details, thinking the only reason she'd ditch them for the ML is if she had finally remembered them.
- And while her grandpa was nice and supportive of her, her late father was an abusive trash who got a 2nd wife, the horrid sister's mother (BTW, is their brother from the same mother as the FL, or not? That's not very clear)
...So... any theories about what could've been the "incident"?
Perhaps she showed musical talent since young, and her brother had already tried to pass her musical scores as his own by killing her, but the ML prevented it?
So let me get this straight..... her bro hinted that the FL was not their father's biological child? (Their mom got knocked up by the enemy while playing spy?) The fianceƩ reminds the ML of her (maybe they're biological sisters?). The ML's grandfather caused his family to lose their title (any chance the FL's 'believed' father was related to him?) ...Man, if even half of this turns out to be it, this story will be so (much more) f**ed up.
The emperor is right. There's nothing creepier than imagining the future emperor getting eventually overthrown for having made people angry by becoming "Di Xin of Shang, the western version", executing people left and right just because "they made my woman cry"... Dude, Liena is not half as pretty as Daji, even...









To think this all happened basically because the previous emperor (the ML's grandfather) never paid attention and allowed their crazy maternal relatives to raise his children.