Many readers felt aggrieved for the male protagonist. He was abused. The male protagonist was so good and the female protagonist never got a marriage certificate from him. Although the female protagonist married him and gave birth to a son and a daughter, the white moonlight in her heart could not be surpassed!
The female protagonist has never loved the male protagonist. She has always loved the second male protagonist. She was forced to spend the first half of her life with the male protagonist, and then went to find the second male protagonist for the second half of her life.