Review: A Ruling Passion: Mr. Tremont's Priceless Little Bride by Lemon Flavored Cat

 What is A Ruling Passion: Mr. Tremont's Priceless Little Bride about?

A plane crash left two children orphaned. The one was an 8-year-old girl. Her father was the captain, who was drunk when he boarded the plane, said the investigation report. The girl became the daughter of a sinner overnight. Because her father died in the plane crash, his guilt fell on the young daughter. And the object of her redemption was another orphan caused by that disaster, the 18-year-old male protagonist of the story. To everyone's surprise, the young man took the little girl back to his home, took care of her life, and raised her up. Everyone thought that he was kind and disregarded the hate, but no one knew what their life was like in the big, closed house. Only the girl was sure that she had been brought to this big mansion to atone for her sins, and she had to bear this for a lifetime...

 

Main Characters in A Ruling Passion: Mr. Tremont's Priceless Little Bride

Heroine: Arianne Wynn

Arianne is an extremely forbearing girl. She became a "sinner's daughter" after her father's death. She has to bear the heavy identity and life with suffering in her heart. The twist in her life happened when she was adopted by a wealthy family that her father had ever worked for. After the adoption, she was not deficient in material, but she rarely bought anything for herself, and she never asked for anything from her family. Her life from 8 to 18 was just like an ascetic’s. In addition to treating herself badly in life, she never resisted the cold violence from her adoptive father (or brother). Her father had ever flown a plane for the Tremonts, but she and her employer's son, Mark Tremont, were orphaned when the plane crashed because of her father's fault. Later, she was taken back to the Tremont family's mansion by Mark, and lived a life like "a rich family's daughter" in the eyes of outsiders. On the contrary, Mark didn’t treat her well at all, even worse, what he did to her was appropriately abusive. Mark Tremont didn’t allow anyone to give her anything, including money. For ten years, he always ignored her when they lived together, and he just kept reminding her that she came to atone for her sins, not to enjoy happiness.

 

Hero: Mark Tremont

Mark Tremont is a typical man with a hard mouth but a soft heart. Because of hatred, he brought the perpetrator's daughter to live at home, even though he was initially to torture her and made her atone for her father. But after years of living together, he had long since let go of the hatred in his heart and sincerely felt sorry for this little girl who became an orphan at a young age. He saw her living carefully in her family, saw her trembling with herself, saw her weak resistance in the face of excessive demands. He saw her suffering, but remained silent throughout standing on the moral high ground of the victim. However, only he knew that love was slowly taking root in his heart.

 

Main Plot of A Ruling Passion: Mr. Tremont's Priceless Little Bride

After being adopted by the Tremonts, Arianne spent a time with sweetness and bitterness. The sweet side was she could live like a normal girl who went to school and made friends as usual. However, the bitterness influenced and shaped her more. Years of repressed life have deeply ingrained Arianne's guilt. She has never doubted her debt to Mark's family. She should bear these sufferings until Mark forgives her father and forgives her. But it seemed that she would never have the hope for Mark’s forgiveness. Maybe it was because of Stockholm Syndrome that she could feel her guilt was lessened a little bit when Mark gave her a little warmth and a smile. She even gradually started to become attached to Mark. But she reminded herself all the time: when one person owes another too much to pay it back, there can never be love between them. If there is, it is only a little bit of interdependence originating from the 10-year-cohabitation. In order not to make herself more pathetic, Arianne has been suppressing her feelings from the moment she found out that she liked Mark. She would rather hope that there was family affection between they two, because she was too eager to have a home.

 

From Mark’s angle, Arianne was seemingly too passive. When she was 18 years old, Mark decided not to hesitate anymore. He began to plan to possess her step by step. First to make her fall in love with him, then to make her his wife, and then to a life full of hope for a couple. But he underestimated the weight of guilt in Arianne’s heart. She never dared to admit that there would be love between them, let alone face his seemingly domineering behavior. Either, she never dared to imagine that he would court her. Arianne's evasion and cowardice irritated Mark over and over again, so he decided to provoke her with another woman, to force out her true feeling. Even though Mark was ten years older than Arianne, when love came, he also couldn’t help but take some childish actions because of jealousy. His childishness pushed Arianne further. In this way, there is still a long way to go between the couple-to-be. They not only have to solve the family feud, but also face the embarrassing status between a guardian and an adopted daughter. More importantly, Arianne must distinguish between guilt and infatuation in her depth. What should Mark do? As we can imagine, what he’s gonna do is overwhelming!

 

Final Thoughts about A Ruling Passion: Mr. Tremont's Priceless Little Bride

In their love story, Arianne and Mark have been both stuck in the scars in their depth. They are supposed to face tons of problems that cannot be fixed and stay in the circle of revenge-sustain. But the author found the possibility of love between them and helped them to dig it out, and make it come true. This love is not easy for anyone in the world, and it deserves to be known by us.