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Okay, I wanted to write a quick summary of what happened so far up to chapter 201.1 from the novel. Things get worst at the beginning before it gets better. Leon’s down fall WILL COME so please don’t give up on this story.
So whoever needs to hear it, here it is. It will be very difficult to hear this for some people. Your discretion is advised. Thank you.
Leon continues to imprison Grace because of his childhood abandonment issues. He continues to take her against her will whenever he pleased. While calling her a ‘prostitute’ and how he was going to keep using her until he gets tired of her. Saying sh*t like he is going to marry the Grand Lady and keep Grace as his mistress for the rest of her life and continue to r*pe her on the daily. Sometimes, Leon attempts to recreate an environment within the torture chamber to re-live his childhood memories. He is doing these things because he is having an identity crisis about Grace. Meanwhile, Jimmy is persuaded by the elders to send a letter with capsules to have Grace kill herself instead of being Leon’s prisoner. Leon intercepted the letter feeling pity for Grace because even her own people didn’t want her. Leon keeps the letter from Grace to manipulate her in the long run. Because Leon thought if Grace finds out she was being sentenced to death by the Revolutionary army, her own people, she would lose her mind and kill herself. Instead, he wanted to use the letter to control and manipulate her later on.
Meanwhile, Grace manages to find an escape route out of the prison room. Thinking the Revolutionary army was probably still in the process of getting her free from Leon’s prison. When she broke out of his prison without him knowing and goes to the mailroom to report to Peter, she finds out Peter was actually a double agent hired by Leon, who ratted Grace’s location to Leon.
After Leon kills the double agent Peter in front of Grace because Grace called him out to being a coward for turning against the Revolutionary army and Peter was about to hit her in retaliation. Leon came behind him and shot him dead. Leon then tried to kill Grace with the same gun (due to his abandonment issues again >_>) but failed to do so. (I think this is where season 1 will end in the Manhwa).
Then, Leon relocates Grace to a new prison, starving her for days because of his anger towards her leaving him again. Then, he came back with food and a dog collar, saying he was going to train her to listen to his instruction. Grace was now treated as a dog. Dehumanizing, degrading and humiliating her continually. He nicknamed Grace ‘Bella’ to mock her (Bella was the name of the dog from his childhood). He continued to brainwash Grace, telling her she is better off with him. That she had no choice but continue to be his s*x toy for the rest of her life.
While this happens, Leon started behaving a bit out of character sometimes, like sometimes he would sleep next to Grace in the torture chamber and bring her favorite cake. Then, one night he even reenacted his childhood date with Grace while he was drunk. Grace got emotionally honest with her feelings and confessed her heart out to Leon. Saying she ‘liked’ him when they were kids. Hearing that, Leon loses his mind and r*pes Grace even harder. Not saying a single word about her confession… (I guess from the author’s respective, he was hurting from his childhood and had no room in his heart for love other than indifference towards her).
Afterwards Grace finds out she was actually biologically related to the commander of the military, who also had turquoise eyes. Apparently Grace’s birth mother Angela was a spy when the revolutionary army assassinated the former king. Angela got with the commander to infiltrate the king. Grace was an a illegitimate child of the Royal family. (so not only was she unwanted by the revolutionary army, her fiancée, mother, step father, biological father and the royal family didn’t want her… the only person who wanted her alive and well was Leon… who is fucked in the head… I feel so bad for this girl … HOW is she so relentless to continue to have the sheer WILL to keep wanting to live?! I don’t know. I sure do admire that about Grace.)
One day his engagement took place with the Grand Lady. After putting a ring on the GrandLady, Leon came to his Annex, where he trapped Grace and showered her with gifts like dress, make up and jewelry. (It was as if he was engaging/marrying Grace in the same night) Then, Leon loses it and r*pes Grace. This time, with the intent to impregnate her. He thought that this would be the last option to keep her tied to him for life. Their first attempt for pregnancy fails… so he continued to r*pe her for days… (it’s so disgusting what he continued to do to her that I don’t even feel comfortable typing it here. me: (︶︿︶)＝凸 to Leon)
Grace eventually became pregnant. Grace experiences some major pregnancy sickness and loses a ton of weight. She asked Leon if this was his newest torture technique. Leon started to grow a ‘conscious’ at this point and felt a little bad for her.. (me over here (╯°Д °)╯╧╧ (╬￣皿￣)凸 to Leon. And Hoping his dick rots in hell. lol, lol)
Grace I was struggling to live yet refusing to die. At this point in the story, this girl finds out some major life altering news; her biological father was a royalist and the revolutionary army presumed she was dead. (Leon told Grace about these two information)Grace didn’t believe Leon and thought he was making all of this up to manipulate her. (Which he also actually was doin)
In order to get out of the sh*t hole imprisonment, Grace try’s to use Leon’s love for her against him. She plotted to give him fake love and take it all away by leaving him, so that he may suffer miserably alone forever, unhappy. Leon Winston, the lunatic he is, didn’t fall for this. Instead he uses her fake love to satisfy his sexual desires. ( (╬￣皿￣)凸 this guy has NO SHAME)
One day while Grace was pregnant with the baby but was still recovering from her pregnancy illness… Leon set her up with a gun and cash in a handbag. She uses the gun and herself as leverage to escape the Annex. It was all a set up, Leon had his guys follow her every step. Grace knew she was being followed, yet, she went into the revolutionary hide out anyway. She contacted Jimmy and found out he DID in fact sent her a letter with capsules to kill herself, just as Leon told her. Grace was in a place of shock at this point. She felt abandoned(Jimmy) by one man and manipulated (Leon) by the other. Grace then, managed to escape Leon’s spy bodyguards and went to visit her half-brother, Joe.
Joe told her about their dead mom and why he had left the revolutionary army because of what she said and done. Grace’s mom Angela wrote a journal and a letter for Grace. Explaining everything wrong with the revolutionary army and told her to get out.
Basically, the revolutionary army that Grace was taught all her life to devote her self to was no different than the royal family. Grace was brainwashed into their system to only get used by them to kill the royals. They convinced Angela not to abort Grace because they wanted to use her unborn child to kill her own blooded people. The revolutionary brainwashed Grace ever since she was born. They showed Grace only the best side of the revolutionary army to obtain her allegiance to the cause, while secretly making fun of her because she was killing her own kind. (They say some bullsh*t like it’s dog eat dog and pig eat pig world out there) Angela didn’t want this for her child, she didn’t want how she got pregnant with her to happen to Grace too. But Angela didn’t have a lot of choice because the Elders made her be complicit (Still, she could have fought for her child and left the rebel army, but didn’t…idk why).
All this newly learned information opened Grace’s eyes. Angela left a bit of money for both Joe and Grace for them to start a new life out side of the revolutionary army.
(I think this is where season 3 will start in the manhwa)
Now, this is when Leon Winston finally STARTED to get what was coming to him. Grace secretly leaves Joe’s place with her pregnancy, 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 delulu 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 (despair has its own counts ╮(￣▽￣)╭ and Leon Winston was only BEGINNING his counts, heheheheheh (=・ω・=))