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HOLY SHIT PEAK CHAPTER OMG. this is so embarrassing to tell but also very funny lmao : i am severely sleep deprived and when i saw uyun mention a cafe i swear i dropped my phone on my bed and started crashing out and tearing up thinking about the possibility that we might get a songhyeong (songrik and jinhyeong) meetup.... like i was genuinely tweaking for a full five minutes when jinpil arrived and said smth like "it's been a while" i thought for a second it was songrik and started crashing out again lmfaooooo im never moving on from this friendship breakup and it's a fictional one icb
anyways love the detail that jinhyeong still cannot see jinpil's face, i just know it's gonna hit when hes gonna be able to see his father's true self again (just like in no home ..... absolute peak cinema)
me thinking about the implications of jinhyeong confronting jinpil while songrik is present and crashing out over it just bc i read the word café is one of my most embarrassing moments like girl just stop crying and read the rest of the damn thing ik we probably won't see songrik with jinhyeong again, (at least not until the very end of the manhwa imo) but can u blame a girl for having hope crossed in her heart ?
ok i genuinely hate when mcs take revenge on ppl that werent directly involved in what happened to them but honestly knowing the whole truth makes me feel like ian could kill everyone in the high society and id still be like hell yeah he fcking earned it i cant even blame him for how twisted his mindset is, my boy suffered through the seven rings of hell (suffering NEVER justifies inflicting trauma on other btw, im not excusing his actions here) and still walked out alive im dropping this manhwa bc the novel traumatised me and i dont like the main pairing but the art is so good and while i love buff ukes, i cant look at ian in a bed without wanting to bawl my eyes out honestly....... we need the entire ruling class dead and yes that includes michel bc unfortunately when we say eat the rich we even mean twink gay boys with sparkling eyes
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ok so get ready bc ive written a lot : basically, ian was sold into sex slavery when he was just a kid (younger than 10 yo i believe, literally just a baby), bc northern kids were often sold as slaves and prostitutes to southern nobles.
a bit of context : the north is very liberal about sexual relationships but once you're married you're basically loyal to your spouse for the rest of your life, no cheating is allowed. The south instead, has a strong concept of chastity and premarital relationships are forbidden (for both men and women) though many actually have sexual relationships in secret while preaching chastity and even after marriage it's kind of normal to have mistresses.
-> ian's mom was a southern woman who had sex with the shelleg's head of family (who is norhern) and thought he would marry her and never cheat on her bc of tradition but then had to face the truth that she got tricked bc she was a foreigner and ended up killing herself
the one who bought ian was michel's father, who was a pedophilic rapist fucking monster. he had him serve as his sex slave bc his wife was currently pregnant with michel and he couldn't do anything with her. michel's brothers abused and raped ian as well.
one night ian was sick with a high fever but michel's father still went to his room and raped him. right when it was over, a servant called for him to go to his wife bc she went into labor and in that moment ian resolved of taking revenge and how : he would destroy his rapists' family and take the newborn baby. his reason for taking the baby is that ian being a kid who has a distorted and messed up view of the world after all he's been through (plus the fact that he has a high fever that puts him into delirium) concludes that the newborn baby is as good as "his own" since it was born while ian was being raped by the father. the newborn baby is michel, who does not recall ian from his childhood at all. then, i dont really remember how but shelleg finds ian and adopts him into the family as his illegitimate son, and uses that to get closer to the anatole family (michel's family), which is why it says at the beginning of the manhwa that ian and michel's father were still close even when he was an adult (poor ian). the shelleg family also mistreats ian, especially his stepmom and stepbrothers.
at first and for the most part of the novel, ian feels hatred towards michel bc he's the son of his rapist, but also some kind of twisted affection since he saw him as 'his' son. his plan at first is to kill whoever is sent to marry him (he didnt want to marry anyone but michel's brother forced his hand and didnt tell him he sent michel specifically), but is more and more confused and has mixed feelings when he discovers that michel is not like his brothers and father and has good in his heart. everyday he wishes he could kill him and then cant get through with it bc of the genuine affection michel shows him. he was expecting michel to be arrogant and selfish and as much as a monster as his family but it's not the case. ian has suicidal thoughts and he secretly hopes for michel to kill him once he learns everything, bc dying by michel's hand would be like karma to him. michel learns more and more about ian's past, especially when one of his brothers come to visit them and try to abuse ian and michel protects him. the ending is shown as a happy ending as they end up together n stuff but it is very bittersweet bc michel never learns that ian was the reason for his family's downfall and never learns of his whole betrayal plan. ian never told him bc he knows that if michel learns the truth he will never forgive him.
the there are the side stories, which are even worse bc none of them have a good ending
spoilers for side stories ahead !!
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one is omegaverse in which most everything is the same (except there are abo dynamics) but then michel gets ian pregnant but ian loses the baby in a miscarriage
and the other one is a what if scenario where michel meets ian when they are both children and ian is still his family's slave.... michel finds out that ian is a sex slave but doesnt know that ian's owner and abuser is his own father..... then he falls in love with ian and when they are both grown up michel has his first time with ian but hus brother finds out and imprisons ian and it ends there








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