In my opinion, the MC liked the butler and genuinely loved him. I felt that his relationships with his stepbrother and the Duke’s third son were conditional. He took the Duke’s son because of his phenomenal issue, and with his stepbrother, he formed a bond for a specific reason. But with the butler, there were no conditions. He genuinely loved him.
As a novel reader, I don't get it. This is part of the canon novel, right? So why add a hypothetical warning? It's the third timeline, and it's canon. That's weird.
One side story is from the POV of Lennox, Aeroc, and Kloff's firstborn in the second timeline. Another is about Kloff getting amnesia and acting like a gentleman, causing everyone, including Martha and Hugo, to panic. One has Aeroc meeting the older Kloff from the first timeline in a lucid dream. There's also a Linus x Raphael story in the second timeline, a "what if" story where Aeroc survives the first timeline, and finally, Ray x Linus from the first timeline.
You could say it's toxic. Ray wanted revenge for his mother, so he made a deal with Linus and tried to seduce him. In the end, the whole thing became a complete mess. Ray ended up as Linus's sex buddy, and honestly, I found it really uncomfortable and disgusting.
I thought I wouldn't like the "what if" story the most, but the Ray and Linus one was actually worse. Maybe that was the author's intention, and it's her story, so it's her call, but... I don't know. I'd genuinely rather read fanfiction of Ray and Linus than the original story.
In my opinion, AveryGreenApple and U_A1111 wrote much better revenge stories for Ray than the author herself.
It was actually a rebound for Linus, and the revenge was completely pointless. It only led Ray to write a book about Aeroc's suffering and Kloff's cruelty. His siblings were angry at him, and the nobles treated it as a dark romance novel rather than Aeroc's biography. Ray was the biggest loser after Aeroc and Raphael in the first timeline.
Come on, the uke's reaction is completely suitable for the situation. Why is everyone throwing shade at him on social media? He's one of the few ukes who has the guts and the backbone to stand up for himself.
If you mean Sunhwa is mostly cause he truly did not like Sanjo he just wanted the idealized version of Sanjo he created, he wanted to mold him to his tastes cause if he had liked Sanjo for who he was none of this would have happened so I guess a lot of people are taking it from that. I also think that Sunhwa showed he really didnt like Nanjo by seeing Mok but icing out Nanjo. Which tbh is the reason I don’t dislike Sunhwa cause im sure if Mok had been honest to at least Sunhwa then he wouldn’t have felt as betrayed. Sunhwa implied that wasnt the first time Mok hooked up with someone that was inside him so its understandable he is mad
Btw just adding, cause i agree all of them are wrong… sadly even Nanjo
I'm so speechless. I don't even know what to say. The poor MC. Imagine growing up with two brothers, only for everything to fall apart like this. That's so traumatizing. And let me guess, he'll still end up staying with them. God, incest is incest. It doesn't matter whether it's between cousins, half-siblings, full siblings, or step-siblings. What a perverted alpha.
Incest isn't just about a blood relationship. It's about violating the trust and safety that family is supposed to represent. Imagining the MC in that situation makes me feel sick. Home is supposed to be your safe place, but then you realize your most vulnerable place has been compromised. Maybe it's because I'm a woman, and constantly hearing news about sexual assault has made me more sensitive to this.
Now, the people defending Kloff's feeling for Raphael in Love Leads the Revenge will finally get their answers in this side story. As I said, it was always a guilty pleasure for him. He was an insecure person who used Raphael's death to fulfill his own lustful desire to control Aeroc. He had always loved Aeroc, but because Aeroc was an alpha, he chose Raphael instead. His anger may have been genuine in the initial stages, but it eventually turned into selfish desire.








I already read novel so..... ( ̄へ ̄)