I agree with everything you said except the part where you called it a sick wish. While it’s the absolute worst way to go about it, wishing to no longer having a reality where they are all essentially segregated into specific villages and forced to sell themselves and be surrogates to the highest bidding isn’t a sick wish. Them wanting things to change isn’t sick, what’s sick is what they’re doing to accomplish it. Even if the village elders are the main ones pushing for this, at this point we don’t know if they themselves haven’t been surrogates for years before they stopped being as fertile and became the village elders. They at least hinted they could’ve been the ML’s mother so it seems like it’s a vicious repetitive cycle and I can see why they’d be desperate to break it. Again, ABSOLUTELY SHITTIEST WAY to go about trying to get independence but not a rotten wish at it’s core after everything they have gone through.
Poor Muhan. This poor poor child. He was 15 when he met Jaeheon so he should still be a teen right now. They are torturing a child for their sick wish. I am gonna hurl. I had already guessed what was gonna happen but I didn't know they were beating him near death. No wonder Monster Mugo exists. Muhan was probably so fucking scared.