The Rise - Land of the Vicious series

The start is a bit messy/hard-to-follow, but once you get about 30 chapters in it turns really nice. Definitely worth a read.

Another story about a woman who swallows all her dignity (why do they call it pride?) and suffering for a forced marriage with an abusive assh*le who hurts her both **icologically and phisically because he's jealous (or whatever other reason he finds justifies his actions) disguised as a charming love story... Sincerely, it makes me want to puke and slap a lot of people out of their hurtfull cliches.

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