MASSIVE SPOILER: LORE DROP

So massive spoiler for whoever wants it. Like dropping lore and all that. Also please read the Novel, the novel has so many subtle things and the depth is just so good.

Basically ML is an alpha and the MC is a beta. The ML mistakes the MC for an omega right?

So the ML’s family line has a special trait that only comes up like once every couple generations. It’s that rare. They are called “Ghosts”.

Ghost have the power to turn betas into omegas by knotting. Which is why the ML freaks out later when they crack and he knots accidentally.

The ML at first is really confused as to why the MC smells and reacts to pheromones like an omega but doesn’t get wet. Which is why he’s just looking at this guys hole as he sleeps lol.

The MC has a suspicion about this ‘good smell’ but dismisses as he’s a beta and it must be cologne, as well as the ML’s friend, Choi Inwu, an alpha, releases pheromone to no effect (this is the dinner convo).

The ML decides to investigate and starts contacting people to find out why the MC reacts like that despite being a beta.

ML takes MC to different art galleries trying to convince him to paint again. This happens for like 6 months to nearly a year I think but don’t quote me on that. And MC puts himself into debt as the couple he traveled with is on the run. The ML helps him hide them in Bali and basically becomes his contracted painter to pay off the debt.

Throughout this whole thing, they crack like crazy! with knotting happening at least 3 times in one session.

Everytime they do crack, the morning after the ML is gone and he’s seen with glasses on. I think at one point the MC notices this and sees his eyes one morning when the ML stays, remarking that instead of their blue they turn ‘smoky’ and more whiteish.

This is a sign that a ‘Ghost’ has successfully started and done a step closer to the changing process. (It’s slow and continuous)

Diamond Dust (the title) is a weather phenomenon where tiny ice crystals float and sparkle like diamonds when the ice crystals are hit with sunlight at certain angle, creating faint shimmering effects, subtle halos and light pillars. It’s really beautiful I recommend it look at photos.

Anyway, while the ML is searching for answers he finds an old record of another ghost with the same problem. This Ghost calls the beta attractive, magnetic, beautiful etc.. as Diamond Dust. (At the time it wasn’t called that but the ghost in the records describes him similar to that phenomenon) The ML nicknames Diamond Dust into Didi.

Just as Alphas and Omegas are each others counterparts and are inexplicably drawn to each other, a Ghost and a Didi are counterparts as well.

Eventually, the MC and ML are really getting it one and they really like each other. The ML is anxious about his secret and about how he was basically changing the ML’s body anatomy without his permission or even knowing.

ML prepares to abandon his art studio in Korea and move somewhere else with MC for his ‘debut’ in the art world but in reality it is so when the ML confesses that he’s done all of this, the MC will be mad but eventually come back because everything that the MC knows is far away and the only path to go is back to him.

The MC has started to eat less and complain of stomach problems (part of the changing process). He also gets wet during sex like twice but brushes it off after ML says it’s just precum. The ML familiar with the symptoms goes to his friend, Choi Inwu, to see the progress of the changing and help him keep it under raps while treating him. Choi Inwu and ShuShu know about the ML’s secret.

Right before they were set to leave (I think about a month or so before), Choi Inwu and the ML get into a big argument and Inwu says that he won’t continue and that he has to tell MC. ML is like yeah when we get to America. Inwu criticizes him and basically exposes his plan for isolation, calling him cowardly.

A bit later (about a week), ShuShu comes to talk to MC basically congratulating him on the relationship between the MC and ML. He says “So you’ve decided to become an Omega and accept him?” MC’s like ‘tf you mean?’ ShuShu is like ‘oh shit’.

The MC says nothing and goes to confront the doctor first. Inwu spills the beans and tells him that he’s about 50% done with the transition (he’s got a uterus but not the ovaries yet). The next day MC confronts ML. ML confesses and doesn’t deny the MC when confronted about the changing and the isolation plan.

MC runs away to the island he was an originally from. His father who has aphasia after losing his wife basically doesn’t really react to MC’s trauma dumping. ML comes to the island to beg for forgiveness some time after. He explains everything to the MC and give the MC a choice, to stay or to leave with support.

The MC leaves to Paris to paint there. He stays away for about a year. The MC goes full time painter and makes many good works.

Eventually they meet again and get back together. The MC decides to become and omega and yeah there should be more but I gotta keep reading.
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