For the tjsg, basically the story ends with girl's husband getting framed by the prince as he wanna her to marry him. He said he would spare her husband and their kids would grow up in a safe place if she go with him. She agreed and was forced into the palace, under strict supervision to ensure her compliance. She always beg the prince to know just a bit abt her family when he just wanna spend time with her. One night he had a feast at her quarter, brought her many gifts. She tried to please him, but later when they're in bed he ask again what she want. She wanna know abt her kids and he got extremely mad. Even after so long she think of them all the time. He snapped and told her the truth, her husband has been dead since he caught her. He let his soldier tie her husband up and let the horses seperate him to pieces. And her kids? Unknown, they were left behind in the home, maybe dead now. The girl completely shut down after that, the last thing she rmb is using the hairpin - the only thing she had left of her husband and stab the prince. As blood seep through his robe, she stab the hairpin through her heart.

Back with the tjsg. The white hair man come close to sgr when her bucket fall down. She was thinking abt going back and ask for tj's help when he grab it where it fall and scoop her a new one. Surprised and also a bit skeptical, cuz this is her first interaction since months ago from the the start of tj's last job. Aside from the kids, she doesn't get to see much. Sgr thank him, but keep her eyes downward.
The man is unusual, his face is foreign to sgr, beautiful but unsettling. His lips has a cheerful smile, but his eyes are like knives to her. She need to go back to tj. He wanna know more abt her, despite sgr's vague answers and quick footsteps. He just laugh softly and say she dont hive to be shy, he wont harm her just wanna help (like anyone would believe that). When he said a girl like her shouldn't ve alone out here, she said she's with her husband and kids. That seem to deflate him a bit, she said goodbye and run without looking back.
Now the original end would go like this, tjsg settle down and start their daily life. But during a harsh winter the kids got sick and cold. Tj went out to gather better wood for the fire, sgr had their fever under control when tsumiki cough blood. Worried off her mind, sgr broke tj's rule for the first time, she ran to town herself. She banged on the town's doctor door, begging for her help.

U see, after tjsg got married they talked abt settle down on the outskirt from the capital. Tj can fish, cut woods and do errands in town, and sgr will take care of the kids and the home. She ride along with tj on his last merc mission, as the money from this plus their savings can get them comfy for a long time.
Tj knows well enough to keep his wife hidden, in the day sgr and their kids need to stay put in the carriage. Only come out when tj knock on the door. Most ppl dont know his wife is with him thanks to this. One day tho, this routine changed.
The mission was done so most of the mercs went into the city, or back home already. Sgr thinks the coast is clear so she ask tj if he could go out and lets the kid play outside. Sgr want to get some water to make warm bath for family tonight, so she go to the stream near their camp. Unfortunately her tragedy start here, she was washing her hands and washing some clothes when she caught the eyes of a white hair man.
The man quietly watched sgr when she got near the water, blue eyes sharp like a predator. When she was struggling to hold the bucket of water, he walked his horse closer to her and greet the beauty.

Back to the tjsg story, even when merc toji ignore her, sgr still try to give back. At first it was just gratitude, now its a crush. She fell in love with a sad lonely man whose hands soaked with blood. Yet he feels like warm spring in her heart, unlike the trembling cold she feels everytime a suitor comes. Her parents try to protect her, but everyone has a price. She saw some of them threatening her little neighbor twins miminana for lying for sgr before.
Anw, toji cant ignore sgr forever, and slowly, she made her way to his mind, and eventually his home. They got married secretly, with the kids as their witnesses. Sgr ran away from home, leaving a note to her parents. She's in a better place now (this will have a sad end)