Crime and Punishment: Done

So Svid lost his attraction to Dunya and is engaged to a teenager. Obviously, there's something wrong with that. Then he goes and kidnap Dunya and locks her in his room and practically gives her an ultimatum: marry him or get raped and if she reports it, he'll report her brother! It turns out, that his wife did indeed die "unnaturally" because he poisoned her. Is it all just for a woman?! and after realizing that she doesn't love him, he goes and commit a suicide and told people that he'll be "leaving for america." But not before, donating (all?) his money to Sonya and his fiancee's family, which was a really kind gesture considering his character. Maybe that was his redemption. Rodya finally confesses to his family and he realizes how much the murder has affected himself and his family and crumbling the future that his mother and sister had worked so hard for. He could have a bright future. He was told to confess midway to the police station and after kissing the ground, he could not go through with it. Really, was is necessary to kiss the floor? that's disgusting. People will think you're a crazier man. Later, after confessing, he goes to prison and has a trial. He has a light punishment due to confessing and is sent to Siberia for hard, unpaid labor! And Sonya goes with him! Raz and Dunya marries and Pulch dies from knowing that her son is murderer. She can't handle the truth, can't she? Despite, being in jail, Rodya is practically the same and the prisoners don't like him, but they like Sonya, haha. Story ends with them revealing their love and getting it on. Gosh, Rodya is one emotional guy.

One question that's on my mind: Why did Nikolai confess? I just don't understand why he would confess something he didn't do. As for the story itself, I felt that this would have been more interesting to read if I was older and had more time to "ingest" it. I had to rush my reading often times and practically skim through the novel so I wasn't able to fully enjoy the novel. The story was pretty good overall but the ending felt a bit cliche with "love" and stuff and gave us too much of a happy feeling. But I guess that's the point because the whole story was depressing until the end. For someone in his teens, I would really enjoy reading a book that I would truly enjoy. I believe there is a book that exists that can provide us with insight to light and profound things while still appeal to the young people. I have to say, the novel was more of an insight in a criminal's mind rather than action. The action was so mundane.