This is not your typical toxic bl. Infact Jiwook is not Juyeon's victim rather its Jiwook getting his due from Juyeon. While the manhwa and story puts on Jiwook getting abused front and center, the actual story is Juyeon who's battling his inner demons coping the abuse he received from Jiwook and yet still harboring feelings for him despite being abused by Jiwook
To put it short, Juyeon used to follow Jiwook during their school days and Juyeon basically acted as his junior running errands and Jiwook looked out for him. Juyeon developed feelings for Jiwook and confessed, but Jiwook along with his friends decided to abuse Juyeon for being 'faggot' and SA him and recorded the abuse and sent it to Juyeon's mother who after watching it collapsed. While the victim suffered the pain, the perepetrator, Jiwook walked on as of nothing happened. So Juyeon decided to get revenge by doing exactly what Jiwook done to him and make him remember the crime he committed
Jiwook is a extremely proud and self centered guy who knocks down on others just to prop himself up which actually plays into his downfall. His so called friends are lookong for a moment to ditch him and see how he falls and the guys who assaulted Jiwook? It's Jiwook who first insulted him and attacked him. I'm not celebrating or condoning actions committed towards Jiwook but rather stating that its a poetic justice, a karmic lash thats being delivered to him for his actions
Where is this being said? Iv seen spoiler of this, n I can't find it exactly
I actually posted an extensive review about this manhwa. You can check it out if interested or you can look back into older comments and discussions and you could find the link to novel (i lost the link though..)
The inner conflict, fear, anxiety, pain, doubt its felt like i'm the one experiencing it rather than someone observing it. Unfortunately prejudice and hierarchy very much exists in schools. The negative cliches we write it off exists in schools and the social environment in schools is very much toxic and abusive.
Many people write it off as boring and complaining that MC is like 'this and that' is missing the point. He's trying to survive socially in an environment where its basically "dog eat dog" world and him being weak and is from a rich family puts him a big target. We can go on an on about such toxicity and violence and how it exists beyond school but I'm gonna give Jun props for trying to play cards right so that he can emerge unscathed
And for Yohan, its similar in his case too. He's trying to put up appearence so that no one can mess with him as he lost affection and place in his home. He's starved off affection and using his loner status as a currency to put up walls crafting himself as "enigma". I can understand him feeling betrayed and gutted when Jun pulled that stunt (it was meant to be well meaning, but it actually cost Jun Yohan's trust and maybe Yohan father's ire) but the chapter 43 left a bit of bad feeling as he assaulted Jun
And as for from ch 44, everything occuring to him and him drawing parallels to Taeson and Yohan needlessly trying to raise the hell with Jun did send some shivers done the spine as if I'm experiencing it. Miscommunication took hold but I think Yohan should have reached out properly instead of him doing whatever he did upto ch 53 but there's one thing that's bugging me
How did Jun broke his arm? How did he step into glass? I mean Yohan did tell that he would "raise hell" or something similar. If its truly coincidence and Yohan using it to play mind games then its shitty but there's something salvegeable but if its truly Yohan's doing of getting Jun physically hurt then thats a completely different matter entirely. But Yohan did purposefully mess with Jun by needlessly shouting at him openly to gain attention, holding his weakness over him. But Jun also has a hold over Yohan, his weakness at home. If Yohan cross the line too much, Jun can easily pull that card exposing him as gay and reveal that his family is ashamed of him, but it can easily become double edged sword and Yohan's a suprisingly sharp opponent so Jun has to play that card very smartly and carefully
But seeing the special chapters, I guess both did like each other enough where they worked the problems and ended up together, and I think Jun may have gotten his parents blessings (or maybe not, but it'll be interesting to see how that plays out)
If Yohan is sincere about Jun then I would like him to apologize to Jun (it rarely happens in real life, so its fine to expect this much in fiction)
If only I can read the novel, god I miss booktoki, I was unable to find any real equivalent to it...If yall found it, please share the link...
Is the plot with us? Or did it get lost? I have a lot of questions.
whats the Leon's origin? Is Leon transmigrated from Earth or is it another fantasy world? The story kinda hints that Leon have some sort of connection to royalty in his original world
Who's this Cliff guy beyond Leon's guardian and 'lover'? (Cliff hooking up with a kid he practically raised really gives off predatory and grooming)
The part where Cliff got attacked by someone, is that guy Negral?
If that world is perfectly suited for that monsters, then why are the Negral and his cohorts are obsessed with making that world 'livable'? Like wasnt that world already livable?
Are they tourturing Leon out of revenge or for the need? I know for sure that Deus guy is delibrately torturing Leon as a revenge for attacking him and that creepy doctor/scientist guy also does it because Leon's attack caused a parasite to take over half his body
Whats with Negral's obsession with Leon? Why does he dont want Leon to go away? But then is willing to let others have their way with Leon?
Why do they need to repopulate? Dont the population there can reproduce? Why do they need specialized 'vessel' for repopulation?
Why is repopulation heavily dependant on Leon? Just why??
So this plan for repopulation where they are going to breed monsters with Leon, lets assume that for a moment, after this then what? How are they going to create future generations beyond? Do they find someone like Leon? Do they summon creature?
Did they steal the Leon's power once they figured out he's a perfect host? How long were they planning?
So Negral, Deus and others human appearence are all just false? That means like beryl they have true appearence?
Negral is very much focused on controlling Leon and he knows Leon is immune to mind control but is weak to physical touch. Why does he wanr to control Leon? (I suspect after ch 81, Negral threw Leon in purgatory to break his spirit and willpower and make him succumb to physical touch by the monsters so that Leon can be easily to manipulate)
What's the origin of Leon's power? Is it Cliff's? Is the power passed on to Leon as innate or is the source the earrings? If the power source is indeed earrings then why when Leon gets back his earrings unable to fully unleash his power? Did they seal the power itself or did they block the Leon's ability to access the power?
Whats the endgame for Leon before he gets tortured? And whats the endgame for Negral and co? Whats driving them? Whats their goal?
The story has a lot of plot to explain but the majority of content is all about Leon getting tortured to the point its starting to cause discomfort like for what reason is he being put through such pain?
Its not purely billed as fetish porn atleast in that way it can simply be written off as something people use it for their voyeuristic pleasure. It hints at background and story and expects readers to push through a lot of graphic content without any meaningful story to grasp
All excellent questions that I've wondered myself (and what kept me reading), but at this point due to the update pace and the next 1-+ future chapters all being mob rape (which took the author seven real life months to draw), I'm losing hope we'll ever get satisfying answer to this story. If you're interested tho, I have a fanfic that goes into the lore
I found the fanfic link and I am enjoying that version. The conflict of emotions and desire makes it very engaging. I'm currently on ch 4 and Im already hooked. Too bad its not canon but I can already see that this manhwa author would take some inspo from that fanfic and integrate with the story as canon but before the manhwa finally comes arounds making any sense of plot (after torturing poor Leon into oblivion) I would have already finished reading this fanfic. You know what? I'd rather read the fanfic (even if that doesnt end in the way I hope) and be done with this rather than waiting for offical manhwa simply because the plot makes it more interesting compared to the mental pain the manhwa put us through by forcing needless torture of Leon without properly telling the story
Can't agree more
Glad you’re enjoying it!
Hear me out, these are some of the (general) characteristics of Supermodels (that I have gotten to know about, just hear me out lol, not necessarily accurate)
Daddy issues? Check
Eating disorder? Check
Low self esteem and constant self doubt? Check
Got discovered cuz something is "special" with them? Check
Hardships before getting discovered? Check
Snatched waist? Check
Babygirl is practically Supermodel except instead of running down runway, he's running down hunting monsters!!
After all that, while Gray eventually gets his karma, Oscar and Abel just goes on like before and Hardy eventually gets back together with Abel
All it takes is Abel to pathetically cry like a effing man child "im sowwy, i made mistake, please stay, dont leave uwu" and Hardy's like fine....and drops his pants and rides Abel like a cowboy....
I've been seeing this story consistently come up in this site as recommended. Taking a cursory glance gives off similar vibes like Roses and Champagne (completed, wont be rereading it), Codename Anastasia (Dropped it after Volume 1), Mayday (completed, not really a big fan). Black haired uke getting dominated by buff white top who's slightly (or completely) psycho and seeing 5 volumes with 130+ chapters, what's exactly is going on besides a guy called Ilay going poundtown with Taeui for it to have this much chapters??? Some people are loving it and I'm curious
Well.... Tauei gets kidnapped several times and has to get rescued. That counts for plot!
Uhhh....I already got burned by this trope and i'm not ready to deal with ts anymore....
I saw there was a spinoff of this that piqued my interest so I came to take a cursory glance here to see if I gotta read this to read the spinoff... But you listed all the series I avoid like the plague (POTN is included in that even though it's not a white buff Russia torturing a Korean black haired bottom). So I guess I gotta say bye bye to the spinoff because I am never reading this.
As someone who loves those tropes, I’m not completely sure why I like it, for sure I like how possessive and obsessive they, they r willing to cross lines because they love them sm, IK it’s toxic and controversial but I like it. And I like how at first the mls are cold and not emotionally there and they meet the Mc and fall in love and slowly open up and become less cold
Lol it's just that it might have been unique at first but when everyone starts doing the same things, the trope gets tired and boring very fast As an Russian, I also can't with the Russian men glazing ehhhh. 7 foot double door mafia lord icy blonde or whvr who can't understand consent-- all of them r just ai no kusabi ML rip offs.
After being in the scene for 6 years, I don’t get tired of that trope but yeah I get what u mean abt the Russian thing.
It’s understandable, people have different preferences. Just to remind some people who may not know, this novel was released in 2006, so it’s pretty old and slightly problematic, thats why it may seem like a boring and a repetitive plot to others.
I personally think it’s impressive that a novel plot this old can still be interesting to today’s standards and I liked it cause the plot was different from many other manhwas and the art was good too so that was all that it had to have in order for me to like it, it was also one of the bl manhwas I kept rereading along with others, it was personally interesting to me and the characters are unique.
The writing great unlike the bullshit you just listed PASSION came first.
Carlos was born to a woman who worked at a glitzy hostess bar working as a cleaner. She was pumped and dumped by patriarch of Romanov who already was married and had children. So that lady decides to quit working at that bar and worked other jobs and gave birth to Carlos who unfortunately had a mental problem affecting his emotions. Debt and medical expenses pushed Carlos's mom into early grave. Soon Carlos was roaming around the streets and end up at casino and lucky for Carlos, he's a natural genius and was soon noticed by Romanov patriarch and took him under his wing and taught him and made him part of his organization cleaning up the mess and all. He was never meant to be kept for long and soon the patriach set Carlos in a trap meant to eliminate him but he managed to beat up the people sent to kill him and was revealed that it's the patriarch who wanted hi dead and when Carlos confronted him, Patriarch revealed that he's a stain that's meant to be cleaned up after he raped his mom (exact words spoken in black black heart, scenario felt more like pump and dump to me rather than feeling like SA, but then again, par for the course, desnt matter that lady faced something horrible) and Carlos is enraged and offed the entire family and took over the role as the head of Romanov.
Later on he met Misha (who's the birth mom of Alexi, btw Misha is a man and omega, curse the omegaverse) who obviously WAS NOT into Carlos and he's already into Feliks but Carlos met with Misha's parents and they forced Misha to break off with Feliks and marry Carlos and he's NOT happy about it and so is Feliks who thought Carlos stole Misha from him and vowed revenge. Anyway marriage comes and for a while things are going pretty great (except for Misha who'll act up, but credit where due, Carlos did his part as loving husband and treated him with care) and soon Alexi was born and Carlos was bonding rather well with his son and this causes Misha to get upset (Post-partum stress and depression, dont make fun of preggy stuff) thinking that Carlos abandoned him and only used him for baby and rift started to form and by this time, Feliks reentered into Misha's life and they bonded as friends and Feliks started feeding him poison words about Carlos in hope that Misha would break off with him and come to Feliks.
By this time, Feliks already married and had a child, who was Lean, but got mixed up with Terano family and that family's baby (named Illary) ended up with Feliks. Lean now grew up in the Terano household and yeah Feliks's spouse passed away early on. Anyway soon Misha is now starting to rekindle his feelings for Feliks and Carlos got wind of it but looked the other way as the believed Misha wont do any harm and is content so long as Misha was beside him. That trust broke when Misha and Feliks planned to run away and Misha took Alexei with him to cafe and abandoned him in the store while he ran away with Feliks. Alexei almost got run over trying to chase after Misha (who was 5 at the time). Seeing that Misha not only abandoned Alexei but even willing to let him in the path of danger just for his past love broke Carlos's heart and became twisted and hard-hearted and he despised the bonding and all and raised Alexei as cold-hearted bastard.
During the purge, Carlos also killed Former Romanov's lawyer and his wife, that couple had a son, Maxim. now orphaned, Maxin vowed revenge against Carlos. During this time, Carlos and his son's relationship started to deteriorate and Alexei moved away when he was 15. Carlos hired Maxim as Alexei's aide. He knows that Maxim had a grudge but still decided to let him be as he felt sorry for orphaning him as his parents were involved in shady things (It was not specified in both Black Black heart nor here). However, Maxim started to interfere with Alexei's love life and sabotaging wherever possible but Carlos left as is as he believed Alexei would catch on and fire him and he didnt pose much risk, but still decided to threaten him to leave Alexei. Maxim not only served as Alexei's aide but also is dating him. So due to Carlos's pressure, Maxim broke up and left Alexei however soon after, Alexei got shot and went into coma. One of the perpetrators was suprise, suprise, Maxim! So Carlos offed him
however that attack was actually ordered by Feliks who launched this attacks towards Alexei as a "warning shot" (dumb idea, Carlos doesnt particularly care about Feliks and Misha but Feliks in is stupid paranoia decided to do attack Alexei as a warning) Carlos now baying for blood took the path of revenge and decided to destroy Feliks the same way he did to them by looking into Feliks and found the truth about him
Misha felt pretty bad about abandoning Alexei and is now aware that he burned the bridge of any reconciliation and asked Feliks not to target them for his sake and Feliks agree but that doesnt mean he tried to meddle. He colluded with Maxim as Alexei trying to infiltrate and series of events unfolded which got Alexei into life-threatening situation. When Misha got to learn what Feliks did, he slapped him and fight broke between them. However this is soon overshadowed by the fact that the son Feliks thought he sired turned out to be someone else (ie) The children were mixed at birth. This info was sent in secret to Feliks (Possibly by Romanov as a revenge for attacking Alexei).
The truth is Feliks and his deceased spouse had a hard time having child and after much difficulty they bore the child. During the same time, Terrano family also had a child at the same hospital. However Feliks's son was given a diagnosis that the child is weak. Feliks's aide, Visco switched Feliks's child with Terano family's child (Both child look similar) as a way to protect Feliks. Feliks's child, named Lean grew up in Terano household while Terno family's child named Ilary, grew up in Feliks household. Getting to know about the truth, Feliks killed Visco who tried to flee the country. Ilary got to know about it and is now hurt since Feliks now started to avoid Ilary and is now caring about Lean (Blood ties ig.., It seems that Feliks still loved his deceased spouse and cherished her and Lean apparently resembled her too much). Carlos got to know about it and took advantage of it to destroy Feliks the same way and he got to know that Feliks child is now living with Terano family
Meanwhile, Lean's family apparently got into debt is now facing bankruptcy due to Terano's new chariman, Callant due to mismanagement and the only lifeline is Romanov. Carlos took advantage of it and promised him to provide lifeline in exchange for dna sample for Lean and got to know that Lean is actually omega (Lean actually didnt know that he was going to be omega, but eventually got to learn about it)
Carlos planned that holding Lean as hostage would ensure that Feliks wont act up as he knows Feliks already knows about baby switch and is looking for Lean and decided to use Lean as part of his revenge to get back at Feliks and also to get a heir (his grandchild)
So Carlos took advantage of it and pressured Terano to pay back the debt or face eviction. Terano's patriarch decided to pay a visit. Carlos proposed that he'll clear the debt and provide lifeline in exchange for one of his grandson as his son-in-law, Patriarch dismissed as theres no omega. But Carlos revealed that Lean is actually Omega (Basically asking them to hand over Lean) (another thing, Lean did checkup and learned that he is indeed Omega, but didnt tell the family and next day they went to Carlos who broke the news). patriarch immediately declined the offer and went home. But Carlos is after Lean and he sent a message to Lean about paternity test and told him to meet at Hospital where Alexei was admitted and revealed the test (but didnt tell him who his father is) and threatened that he will go after Terano unless he agreed to marry Alexei. Carlos proposed a deal with Lean to marry Alexei who was sick and sire him a baby and he'll clear the debt and wont reveal the secret to Terano. and so facing no choice as he wanted to help his family, he agreed and he married Alexei on paper
Lean eventually told about the deal and the teranos were pissed as they thought Lean is needlessly doing something that he shouldn't do. But Lean blathered about responsibility and wanting to help family left and moved in with Alexei
Carlos basically assigned Lean as Alexei's live in caretaker of sort who was recovering from that attack orchestrated by Feliks. Due to influence of pheromones and such, Lean fell for Alexei and did the deed with unconscious Alexei but immediately ran away as he felt bad about doing something such thing. All of this was recorded secretly which would come to haunt Lean (btw, during this encounter, Lean got marked as fated pair, which pissed Carlos who come to learn about it). Anyway Alexei woke up and learned that his father hitched him to Lean and is pissed (cuz he recently broke up with Maxim and string of his partners were either forced away by his father or killed themselves, like Lilac) and is not willing to cooperate.
He treated Lean like he's a leech but Lean fell in love with Alexei (he loved his angelic face, but beneath that lies a demon which destriyed Lean) and is deluded by the fact that Alexei would eventually come around. During this time, Lean met Sasha, Lean's bodyguard and assumed him as a good person due to his friendly demeanor. But soon things took turn for worse when Alexei warned that Lean wont survive and plans to make him suffer and chocked Lean. Lean thought Sasha would help but Sasha stood there watching Lean getting chocked. Alexei told no one not even Sasha would help and he will suffer a lot. Lean immediately contacted Carlos demanding an explanation as he though all he had to do is to produce an heir and assumed Carlos would protect him. Carlos told that actually no, so long as Lean can bear child, anything is on the table (ie, Told Sasha to turn a blind eye as Lean getting tortured and beat up) Lean begged Carlos do help him as he's already being treated badly and wanted to survive. But Carlos pulled contract card and shut Lean up.
Meanwhile the recorded incident was discovered by Alexei who installed CCTV cameras in his house to record and monitor whats going on (Sasha aint no saint, sure he treated Lean good, but he looked the other way when Alexei and Carlos abused Lean, an enabler and is basically acted as an agent for Carlos who abused Alexei as he wanted to raise someone who cant be manipulated and took advantage of) and this caused Alexei to get mad at Lean and he felt betrayed and things took a dark turn as Lean got beat up everyday by Alexei. During one particular episode. Alexei dragged Lean into room and raped him so badly that red haired guy shocked (bitch, you know Alexei would do this to Lean but instead of helping Lean or calming down Alexei, you just stood guard while Lean cried sounds of help) and another instance Alexei threw a house party and Lean came down and asked what's he doing and Alecei basically asked his friends to strip him and assault him and they did that. Lean pleaded to Alexei that he only wanted Alexei and he knotted and Lean got pregnant
Lean's pregnancy was hid from Alexei under the orders of Carlos. Alexei resented his dad's excessive control and wanted to break away from his control. Lean despite facing abuse, fell in love with Alexei calling him "my alpha" (I SWEAR ABUSIVE OMEGAVERSE RELATION TROPES WOULD BE THE CAUSE FOR MY EARLY GRAVE!!!!!) and yeah Alexei was still abusive to Lean but somehow they managed to hide preganancy. During this time, Alexei arranged to meet with a guy who went against Carlos to gain some info and what he learned shocked him. Alexei learned that Lean married him only because Carlos threatened him and he suffered a lot, plus he doesnt even know who's his father is, but Carlos figured out he's Feliks's son and used him as pawn for revenge, but soon that guy was sniped down by Carlos men and Alexei went into psychotic shock and pleaded with Carlos to let him go and all.
Soon Lean gave birth to baby boy and Carlos kicked Lean out, but Lean pleaded with Carlos for one last time with Alexei. They met and hooked up and Lean bonded him and Alexei allowed it but then Lean left morning and Alexei learned of it and started crying
Meanwhile, before Lean got kicked out from Romanov's, Fight ensued in Lean's family as they learned off the deal as told by Callant. Soon Lean came back to his home and tearful reunion ensued and he immediately left for Edinburgh. Alexei revealed to Carlos that Lean bonded with him one sided. Carlos grew furious and is planning to bring down Lean to fix this but Alexei pleaded with his dad not to as he did too much harm for Lean and this is his repentance and threatened with his own existence if Carlos went against Alexei's wishes. Suprisingly Alexei is a good and attentive dad and really regrets treating Lean poorly and blamed himself for making his child motherless, forcing him to face the same life as he did when Misha abandoned him. but this time, it was him who abandoned Lean and feeling bad for treating Lean so poorly that he ran away. however, one sided bonding seems to cause some sort of health complication but Alexei braved it as something Lean gave him as a punishment of sort but fearing that Carlos would make a move and decided to track Lean
Seven years later, Lean finally settled in Edinburgh and started to lead a normal life and fell in love with a Doctor and opened about his relationship and starting to heal but someone is sending gifts and letters as his "friend" of sort. Lean didnt know who it was (Hint: Its Alexei) but felt happy but wanted to end it as he felt burdened. Anyway, Lean happened to meet Alexei with their child and he immediately grew cold and soon Alexei contacted Lean who didnt know it was him who sent him gifts and asked him to meet. Alexei took the gifts and went to meet with him along with that Doctor and is shocked and petrified to know the mystery person was Alexei all along.
Lean was disgusted and scared of him and wanted to stay away from him. Alexei begged Lean to stay for a while and gave his apologies. Lean for the part begrudgingly accepted so that he could move on and soon Alexei brought their child to meet Lean. Lean met with their child, Czar and bonded and told that he wanted to take custody of Czar. Alexei agreed but Czar cried as he grew up with Alexei. Soon Alexei collapsed and was brought to hospital and that red haired guy filled in the details and Lean started to waver and Carlos went to Lean and told him to stay away and told him if not for Alexei's wishes, he would have captured Lean for his treatment long ago. Soon Alexei recovered and beleived that Lean would give him a chance and they might start afresh and went to seek Lean only to see him and that doctor sharing lovely moment hit that Lean never would smile with him and left. He got caught in rain and got severely sick along with his condition, his health worsened. The only way to cure is that the bonder has to share their pheremone.
Meanwhile the relationship between Lean and that doctor started to change. Lean started to waver and chose to help Alexei. That Doctor though heartbroken, accepted gracefully and even came forward to do the procedure. The procedure went well and soon Alexei cried and begged Lean to stay and apologized for all his wrongdoings and Carlos eventually came around and accepted Lean as his son-in-law and he too apologized for his actions and soon Lean and Alexei reconciled. Despite suffering at the hands of Carlos and Alexei, he treated both of them with kindness and all. This is the main story. Feliks did sought out Lean but Lean rejected him as he told "why now of all time, if you truly cared for me or even though about me, you would have looked for me earlier" and Misha and Carlos had some heart to heart convo regarding Alexei and the things where gone wrong. This has somewhat influenced Carlos to soften and accept Lean and realize what he did is wrong.
Phew, that's it for the main story combining Black black heart and Mated to Ruthless alpha. Start with former to get clearer picture. Lean is truly sorrowful character who got into crossfire between people who wants revenge. Personally I think he should have never got back together with Alexei. In fact he should have immediately left after giving forgiveness that Alexei is fishing for and told him that he does not want to involve with their affairs anymore.
Reading this series kinda gave me a vibe of AO3 and micro drama series crossover. Overall story has some promise but the story is riddled with excessive drama and is basically acted like vehicle for angst (I love angst story but the angst here feels plonked on due to rushed nature of plot development)
Carlos was born to a woman who worked at a glitzy hostess bar working as a cleaner. She was pumped and dumped by patriarch of Romanov who already was married and had children. So that lady decides to quit working at that bar and worked other jobs and gave birth to Carlos who unfortunately had a mental problem affecting his emotions. Debt and medical expenses pushed Carlos's mom into early grave. Soon Carlos was roaming around the streets and end up at casino and lucky for Carlos, he's a natural genius and was soon noticed by Romanov patriarch and took him under his wing and taught him and made him part of his organization cleaning up the mess and all. He was never meant to be kept for long and soon the patriach set Carlos in a trap meant to eliminate him but he managed to beat up the people sent to kill him and was revealed that it's the patriarch who wanted hi dead and when Carlos confronted him, Patriarch revealed that he's a stain that's meant to be cleaned up after he raped his mom (exact words spoken in black black heart, scenario felt more like pump and dump to me rather than feeling like SA, but then again, par for the course, desnt matter that lady faced something horrible) and Carlos is enraged and offed the entire family and took over the role as the head of Romanov.
Later on he met Misha (who's the birth mom of Alexi, btw Misha is a man and omega, curse the omegaverse) who obviously WAS NOT into Carlos and he's already into Feliks but Carlos met with Misha's parents and they forced Misha to break off with Feliks and marry Carlos and he's NOT happy about it and so is Feliks who thought Carlos stole Misha from him and vowed revenge. Anyway marriage comes and for a while things are going pretty great (except for Misha who'll act up, but credit where due, Carlos did his part as loving husband and treated him with care) and soon Alexi was born and Carlos was bonding rather well with his son and this causes Misha to get upset (Post-partum stress and depression, dont make fun of preggy stuff) thinking that Carlos abandoned him and only used him for baby and rift started to form and by this time, Feliks reentered into Misha's life and they bonded as friends and Feliks started feeding him poison words about Carlos in hope that Misha would break off with him and come to Feliks.
By this time, Feliks already married and had a child, who was Lean, but got mixed up with Terano family and that family's baby (named Illary) ended up with Feliks. Lean now grew up in the Terano household and yeah Feliks's spouse passed away early on. Anyway soon Misha is now starting to rekindle his feelings for Feliks and Carlos got wind of it but looked the other way as the believed Misha wont do any harm and is content so long as Misha was beside him. That trust broke when Misha and Feliks planned to run away and Misha took Alexei with him to cafe and abandoned him in the store while he ran away with Feliks. Alexei almost got run over trying to chase after Misha (who was 5 at the time). Seeing that Misha not only abandoned Alexei but even willing to let him in the path of danger just for his past love broke Carlos's heart and became twisted and hard-hearted and he despised the bonding and all and raised Alexei as cold-hearted bastard.
During the purge, Carlos also killed Former Romanov's lawyer and his wife, that couple had a son, Maxim. now orphaned, Maxin vowed revenge against Carlos. During this time, Carlos and his son's relationship started to deteriorate and Alexei moved away when he was 15. Carlos hired Maxim as Alexei's aide. He knows that Maxim had a grudge but still decided to let him be as he felt sorry for orphaning him as his parents were involved in shady things (It was not specified in both Black Black heart nor here). However, Maxim started to interfere with Alexei's love life and sabotaging wherever possible but Carlos left as is as he believed Alexei would catch on and fire him and he didnt pose much risk, but still decided to threaten him to leave Alexei. Maxim not only served as Alexei's aide but also is dating him. So due to Carlos's pressure, Maxim broke up and left Alexei however soon after, Alexei got shot and went into coma. One of the perpetrators was suprise, suprise, Maxim! So Carlos offed him
however that attack was actually ordered by Feliks who launched this attacks towards Alexei as a "warning shot" (dumb idea, Carlos doesnt particularly care about Feliks and Misha but Feliks in is stupid paranoia decided to do attack Alexei as a warning) Carlos now baying for blood took the path of revenge and decided to destroy Feliks the same way he did to them by looking into Feliks and found the truth about him
Misha felt pretty bad about abandoning Alexei and is now aware that he burned the bridge of any reconciliation and asked Feliks not to target them for his sake and Feliks agree but that doesnt mean he tried to meddle. He colluded with Maxim as Alexei trying to infiltrate and series of events unfolded which got Alexei into life-threatening situation. When Misha got to learn what Feliks did, he slapped him and fight broke between them. However this is soon overshadowed by the fact that the son Feliks thought he sired turned out to be someone else (ie) The children were mixed at birth. This info was sent in secret to Feliks (Possibly by Romanov as a revenge for attacking Alexei).
The truth is Feliks and his deceased spouse had a hard time having child and after much difficulty they bore the child. During the same time, Terrano family also had a child at the same hospital. However Feliks's son was given a diagnosis that the child is weak. Feliks's aide, Visco switched Feliks's child with Terano family's child (Both child look similar) as a way to protect Feliks. Feliks's child, named Lean grew up in Terano household while Terno family's child named Ilary, grew up in Feliks household. Getting to know about the truth, Feliks killed Visco who tried to flee the country. Ilary got to know about it and is now hurt since Feliks now started to avoid Ilary and is now caring about Lean (Blood ties ig.., It seems that Feliks still loved his deceased spouse and cherished her and Lean apparently resembled her too much). Carlos got to know about it and took advantage of it to destroy Feliks the same way and he got to know that Feliks child is now living with Terano family
Meanwhile, Lean's family apparently got into debt is now facing bankruptcy due to Terano's new chariman, Callant due to mismanagement and the only lifeline is Romanov. Carlos took advantage of it and promised him to provide lifeline in exchange for dna sample for Lean and got to know that Lean is actually omega (Lean actually didnt know that he was going to be omega, but eventually got to learn about it)
Carlos planned that holding Lean as hostage would ensure that Feliks wont act up as he knows Feliks already knows about baby switch and is looking for Lean and decided to use Lean as part of his revenge to get back at Feliks and also to get a heir (his grandchild)
So Carlos took advantage of it and pressured Terano to pay back the debt or face eviction. Terano's patriarch decided to pay a visit. Carlos proposed that he'll clear the debt and provide lifeline in exchange for one of his grandson as his son-in-law, Patriarch dismissed as theres no omega. But Carlos revealed that Lean is actually Omega (Basically asking them to hand over Lean) (another thing, Lean did checkup and learned that he is indeed Omega, but didnt tell the family and next day they went to Carlos who broke the news). patriarch immediately declined the offer and went home. But Carlos is after Lean and he sent a message to Lean about paternity test and told him to meet at Hospital where Alexei was admitted and revealed the test (but didnt tell him who his father is) and threatened that he will go after Terano unless he agreed to marry Alexei. Carlos proposed a deal with Lean to marry Alexei who was sick and sire him a baby and he'll clear the debt and wont reveal the secret to Terano. and so facing no choice as he wanted to help his family, he agreed and he married Alexei on paper
Lean eventually told about the deal and the teranos were pissed as they thought Lean is needlessly doing something that he shouldn't do. But Lean blathered about responsibility and wanting to help family left and moved in with Alexei
Carlos basically assigned Lean as Alexei's live in caretaker of sort who was recovering from that attack orchestrated by Feliks. Due to influence of pheromones and such, Lean fell for Alexei and did the deed with unconscious Alexei but immediately ran away as he felt bad about doing something such thing. All of this was recorded secretly which would come to haunt Lean (btw, during this encounter, Lean got marked as fated pair, which pissed Carlos who come to learn about it). Anyway Alexei woke up and learned that his father hitched him to Lean and is pissed (cuz he recently broke up with Maxim and string of his partners were either forced away by his father or killed themselves, like Lilac) and is not willing to cooperate.
He treated Lean like he's a leech but Lean fell in love with Alexei (he loved his angelic face, but beneath that lies a demon which destriyed Lean) and is deluded by the fact that Alexei would eventually come around. During this time, Lean met Sasha, Lean's bodyguard and assumed him as a good person due to his friendly demeanor. But soon things took turn for worse when Alexei warned that Lean wont survive and plans to make him suffer and chocked Lean. Lean thought Sasha would help but Sasha stood there watching Lean getting chocked. Alexei told no one not even Sasha would help and he will suffer a lot. Lean immediately contacted Carlos demanding an explanation as he though all he had to do is to produce an heir and assumed Carlos would protect him. Carlos told that actually no, so long as Lean can bear child, anything is on the table (ie, Told Sasha to turn a blind eye as Lean getting tortured and beat up) Lean begged Carlos do help him as he's already being treated badly and wanted to survive. But Carlos pulled contract card and shut Lean up.
Meanwhile the recorded incident was discovered by Alexei who installed CCTV cameras in his house to record and monitor whats going on (Sasha aint no saint, sure he treated Lean good, but he looked the other way when Alexei and Carlos abused Lean, an enabler and is basically acted as an agent for Carlos who abused Alexei as he wanted to raise someone who cant be manipulated and took advantage of) and this caused Alexei to get mad at Lean and he felt betrayed and things took a dark turn as Lean got beat up everyday by Alexei. During one particular episode. Alexei dragged Lean into room and raped him so badly that red haired guy shocked (bitch, you know Alexei would do this to Lean but instead of helping Lean or calming down Alexei, you just stood guard while Lean cried sounds of help) and another instance Alexei threw a house party and Lean came down and asked what's he doing and Alecei basically asked his friends to strip him and assault him and they did that. Lean pleaded to Alexei that he only wanted Alexei and he knotted and Lean got pregnant
Lean's pregnancy was hid from Alexei under the orders of Carlos. Alexei resented his dad's excessive control and wanted to break away from his control. Lean despite facing abuse, fell in love with Alexei calling him "my alpha" (I SWEAR ABUSIVE OMEGAVERSE RELATION TROPES WOULD BE THE CAUSE FOR MY EARLY GRAVE!!!!!) and yeah Alexei was still abusive to Lean but somehow they managed to hide preganancy. During this time, Alexei arranged to meet with a guy who went against Carlos to gain some info and what he learned shocked him. Alexei learned that Lean married him only because Carlos threatened him and he suffered a lot, plus he doesnt even know who's his father is, but Carlos figured out he's Feliks's son and used him as pawn for revenge, but soon that guy was sniped down by Carlos men and Alexei went into psychotic shock and pleaded with Carlos to let him go and all.
Soon Lean gave birth to baby boy and Carlos kicked Lean out, but Lean pleaded with Carlos for one last time with Alexei. They met and hooked up and Lean bonded him and Alexei allowed it but then Lean left morning and Alexei learned of it and started crying
Meanwhile, before Lean got kicked out from Romanov's, Fight ensued in Lean's family as they learned off the deal as told by Callant. Soon Lean came back to his home and tearful reunion ensued and he immediately left for Edinburgh. Alexei revealed to Carlos that Lean bonded with him one sided. Carlos grew furious and is planning to bring down Lean to fix this but Alexei pleaded with his dad not to as he did too much harm for Lean and this is his repentance and threatened with his own existence if Carlos went against Alexei's wishes. Suprisingly Alexei is a good and attentive dad and really regrets treating Lean poorly and blamed himself for making his child motherless, forcing him to face the same life as he did when Misha abandoned him. but this time, it was him who abandoned Lean and feeling bad for treating Lean so poorly that he ran away. however, one sided bonding seems to cause some sort of health complication but Alexei braved it as something Lean gave him as a punishment of sort but fearing that Carlos would make a move and decided to track Lean
Seven years later, Lean finally settled in Edinburgh and started to lead a normal life and fell in love with a Doctor and opened about his relationship and starting to heal but someone is sending gifts and letters as his "friend" of sort. Lean didnt know who it was (Hint: Its Alexei) but felt happy but wanted to end it as he felt burdened. Anyway, Lean happened to meet Alexei with their child and he immediately grew cold and soon Alexei contacted Lean who didnt know it was him who sent him gifts and asked him to meet. Alexei took the gifts and went to meet with him along with that Doctor and is shocked and petrified to know the mystery person was Alexei all along.
Lean was disgusted and scared of him and wanted to stay away from him. Alexei begged Lean to stay for a while and gave his apologies. Lean for the part begrudgingly accepted so that he could move on and soon Alexei brought their child to meet Lean. Lean met with their child, Czar and bonded and told that he wanted to take custody of Czar. Alexei agreed but Czar cried as he grew up with Alexei. Soon Alexei collapsed and was brought to hospital and that red haired guy filled in the details and Lean started to waver and Carlos went to Lean and told him to stay away and told him if not for Alexei's wishes, he would have captured Lean for his treatment long ago. Soon Alexei recovered and beleived that Lean would give him a chance and they might start afresh and went to seek Lean only to see him and that doctor sharing lovely moment hit that Lean never would smile with him and left. He got caught in rain and got severely sick along with his condition, his health worsened. The only way to cure is that the bonder has to share their pheremone.
Meanwhile the relationship between Lean and that doctor started to change. Lean started to waver and chose to help Alexei. That Doctor though heartbroken, accepted gracefully and even came forward to do the procedure. The procedure went well and soon Alexei cried and begged Lean to stay and apologized for all his wrongdoings and Carlos eventually came around and accepted Lean as his son-in-law and he too apologized for his actions and soon Lean and Alexei reconciled. Despite suffering at the hands of Carlos and Alexei, he treated both of them with kindness and all. This is the main story. Feliks did sought out Lean but Lean rejected him as he told "why now of all time, if you truly cared for me or even though about me, you would have looked for me earlier" and Misha and Carlos had some heart to heart convo regarding Alexei and the things where gone wrong. This has somewhat influenced Carlos to soften and accept Lean and realize what he did is wrong.
Phew, that's it for the main story combining Black black heart and Mated to Ruthless alpha. Start with former to get clearer picture. Lean is truly sorrowful character who got into crossfire between people who wants revenge. Personally I think he should have never got back together with Alexei. In fact he should have immediately left after giving forgiveness that Alexei is fishing for and told him that he does not want to involve with their affairs anymore.
Reading this series kinda gave me a vibe of AO3 and micro drama series crossover. Overall story has some promise but the story is riddled with excessive drama and is basically acted like vehicle for angst (I love angst story but the angst here feels plonked on due to rushed nature of plot development)
Thank you soo much... You saved me from reading this horrible plot. Even reading sumnary made my blood boil, reading it would have killed mee
Holy moly i feel like ive just read the whole novel
It doesn't feel like an AO3 novel... AO3 novels at least the ones I've read are actually good this was Wattpad levels of horrible writing omfg
Another thing is that this story (including black black heart) really tries, i mean, REALLY tries to redeem Carlos, Alexei and Sasha like they are lil babies who acted out cuz they dont know any better and throwing some sob story behind them, No, these characters knew full on what they are doing.
While I do have some sympathy for Lean who got into crosshairs of their messy affairs, he needlessly walked into the lion's den. Like why did he get shocked and felt guilty about getting swapped at birth when Carlos threatened him with that info? Infact he should have demanded answers from both Carlos and his family. Why did he acted guilty when Carlos revealed that he's omega who himself only got to know about it a day before? He should have asked "how do you know I'm omega? I'm beta (or) i have just got to know that im omega very recently, you seem to be very sure, how did you know?" Like its a pretty obvious plothole that any characters would have asked. I think this story purposefully made Lean to be pathetic so that they can pile on angst
Look, I love angst story just as much as any others in this site, but its pretty obvious that angst here is needlessly being forced because the plotholes allows it to exist, if those plotholes are patched angst wont be here
Your reply makes up for my wasted energy spent reading and processing this story huhuhuhu....
I loved how unserious and nonchalant Sunwon is and his thinking of dominating guys and his smooth talking skills and the overall ridiculousness of the world he's isekied into, but it turns out Sunwon is not just a nonchalant, go-lucky horndog. He's actually a victim of sexual exploitation and abuse and he's behaving like that to mask his pain and suffering
While people are commenting on Vercion and how abusive he is, Alvis on his part did act like that, though he reflect on his behavior and apologized and tried to rectify his mistakes, make no mistakes he abused Sunwon by stripping his clothes and forcefully tried to lay with him. Many are commenting that Sunwon tried to somewhat take control of situation when Vercion was assaulting him by convincing himself that he's in control and Vercion is laying his hands on him cuz he (Sunwon) in control, The same somewhat played out when Alvis laid his hands on Sunwon. True Sunwon did desire Alvis but that doesnt mean he didnt get abused it's just like how Sunwon desired Vercion but ended up getting assaulted by him. To protect himself from further herm, he had to honeytalk Alvis and coaxed him into sleeping with him. Is he a good king? I believe so, he deeply cares about his subjects and his nation and despises the church which is manipulating and holding the nation in hostage and is looking for ways to break the chruch's stronghold and he's right in regards suspecting Sunwon as part of church's scheme. I mean a guy suddenly pops up as visage of god right when the chruch is trying to destabilize the government, that makes anyone pretty sus. I believe he is a righetous ruler, but is he a good man for sunwon? maybe cuz he did play a role of villan but he is making amends
I was rooting for Sunwon to be power-bottom dominating and standing above the people who's trying to dominate him and subjugate him (whether by peace or by force) but as the story goes on, It feels like Sunwon never actually had power, just a illusion of it. True people respect him (as a god) and worship him but ultimately he derives his authority from very men who claim to be his vassals. In terms of religious affairs, It's the Vercion and his sycophants who truly holds authority and in terms of governance, It's Alvis and his loyals who runs the show. I thought Sunwon would establish some sort of divinity over governance by declaring Alvis as his vassal whom shall carry out the deeds and correct course of the church as his seat of authority to whom both clergy and nobility answers as visage of divinity but it painfully mirrors the reality religious and political leader who use their authority to demonish and impose ridiculous rules by literally using the name of god in vain (BTW, devout people, to not speak name of lord in vain means not use the god as excuse to clear the name of the atrocity they commit, not someone who says "god darn it" when they stub their toes)
I feel the only time Sunwon took a decision of his own freely is when he took that Junior priest into his arms. Apart from that it feels like either he's forcing himself to lay with another or others are forcefully laying with him. It's horrible and even more damning when he's regarded as visage.
I honestly think Sunwon failed to properly establish himself as visage. He just assumed that this world is going to be free for all and is going to serve to his needs. Sure as visage of god, however blashpehmous to us in reality, in this fictional story he could do what he want, but I feel like he wasted his authority by being too carefree. He should have used the authority to reprimand Alvis when he laid his hand and stripped his clothes and he should have put some leash and reigned in the people of the church and made them properly treat him as visage and when he sensed something wrong with Vercion, he should have weeded out the issue early on. I think the incident where Vercion dragged Sunwon from the festival market could be somewhat avoided had Sunwon actually used his presumed authority to chide Vercion and told him that he cherishes subjects of his holy kingdom no matter their opinion and reminded him of his role as chief priest's job to guide Alvis as spiritual leader to help him be a just ruler. It may not have worked, but up that point Vercion is devout to Sunwon and would have listened to him and maybe it would have led to Sunwon laying with Vercion as he desired (that guy still had some mind to bed Vercion up that point)
But it no longer matter, by second encounter, Vercion no longer sees him as visage but rather his man and to make that point clear, he actually said "So you decided to share your blessings like a common whore" (suprising that Vercion actually knows the word and the meaning as he correctly used as the world purpotedly shows the nation is extremely prudent and pious, I guess such behavior exists in nobility and ladies of the night also exist in this world or lords of the night ig). Vercion is a embodiment of what we consider despicable person and leader. Sure he was radicalized by the mortal world when people cheated him and found solace and stability in religion and in priestly work but it corrupted his mind, as soon as he tasted stability, power and authority he's starting to think like tyrant (his belief is pretty much fascist).
My argument of Sunwon losing his authority as visage of god holds when we contrast with another nation's visage. Like Sunwon, that guy also indulges in carnal desire (doesnt matter whether he's bot or top) but people there truly seems to worship him, revere him and respect him as divine being. But in the case of Sunwon, they praise him sure but people treat him as possesion and obession veiled as divine reverance. This is what I said, had Sunwon used his authority to reign in the people, beyond praises, they would have truly respected him as divine being
After reading the novel, I observed something about the main characters
Kang Jun has inferiority complex. Even though he thinks strategically, he needlessly obsess over other people's opinions and excessively worries about how he's preceived thinking that he's weak and feeble minded and is obsessive over reputation.
When he met with that american returnee student and talked about how other people perceive Go Yohan as weird and how he seems to pay attention towards Jun, he immediately worries about how others would talk and denounce him. Many people say that Jun is book smart, not street smart, I agree that. When Go Rosah points out that hoe Jun's observation of Yohan being able to take care of himself (basic things like serving food, loading laundry) is ridiculous and says that it simply makes Jun appear as spoiled and lacking basic living skills, I agree. Its not that hard to serve food to eat even if you are rich.
However the most important thing is he seems to seek out someone who can fill the void of his inferiorness. Someone who can command presence, someone who oozes presence and charisma, Someone who's sharp and witty and can outmanuver their way. Thats why he initially fell for Han Junwoo, but when he realizes that Han Junwoo is not sharp and doesnt have much beyond his size, He sides with Go Yohan, not just because he thinks he's a safe bet for his school peace, but rather he sees the ideal version of someone he wants to be (or so I believe). So much so that he's willing to excuse any fault that Go Yohan posesses. This somehow develops into feelings of care and possessiveness, calling him my go yohan, as if go yohan is his thing, his facade of strength.
I do think that Jun is genuinely is shocked and betrayed when Yohan attacked him and is angry (he delibrately cut off contact with Yohan, threw coffee at Yohan after college exams and cursed at him, even not telling where he enrolled) but still he somewhat came to terms with his feelings for Yohan (he mainly ran away in hurry from home to his parents in US just to get off his thoughts of Yohan, but he still thought of him)
But as for Yohan, the more I read he came off more enigmatic. He claims that people in his home hate him, he ignores his family going so far as to dine alone and shuts off in his room and the reason he claims is because he came out as gay in devout catholic home, but his sister says that Yohan is actually spoiled rotten and that their parents actually cherish him and its Yohan who delibrately came out as gay in christmas family celebration (with his extended family) simply because he loves attention (is it like middle child syndrome??) and says that he has ADHD and in one of family portraits where Jun says he wasnt present, was actually Yohan present just behind the camera taking pics with mirror present projecting him holding victory symbol like a cheeky brat
The american returnee guy also said that Yohan does not like someone who seems to surpass him but also hates someone who's beneath him. He likes someone who can augment him like a perfect little chess piece. Yohan hates being played and prefers to be in control. Its still confusing as to why Yohan acted shy in front of family when Jun brought him purposefully when he mistakenly realized his family is mistreating him but acted out so violently like he betrayed. However one thing is clear, Yohan likes Jun, more specifically his attention. Like a child throwing tantrum. Yohan is willing to go any lengths to capture Jun's attention but more than that he's sharp and have good instincts.
The claim of his father hating him is debunked by Yohan's father himself as he claims he loves Yohan but not so much as his "ring finger" (he analogues loving his children as finger and theres only one finger that can wear ring and so theres only one child he holds special)
When Jun avoided him, Yohan threw tantrum and begged and prayed to god to see Jun. He practically threw himself at floor towards Jun, kissing his feet and renouncing god for Jun as his savior, literally throwing himself to prevent acid from burning Jun when Kim Minho tried to attack Jun (Minho planned to take down Yohan with Jun by staging fake proposal to make him out as gay, but sensing that'll ruin Jun himself, he agreed to play along up untill last moment revealed to Yohan about it and Yohan pummeled Minho, causing him to drop out) but still harboring hate towards Jun for lying, abandoning and staging that stunt with family, but his obsessiveness is far greater than his anger. He wants to completely own Jun.
He's like a gleeful child playing with his cherished toy. He hates whenever anyone tries to approach Jun. Yohan has lot of friends but he rarely seems to hang out or even talk or even pay much attention or interest, prefering to playfully torment Jun and hanging out with him instead. So much so when Jun got jealous about Yohan having friends, Yohan said he'll cut ties with anyone in heartbeat, but the thing is its not him willing to cut ties, but rather not wanting Jun to get close, he's projecting that desire which Jun correctly identifies. Yohan actually got into college via early admission but delibrately lowered his requirement to get into humanities degree just to get a chance to meet with Jun. There's this thing, Yohan is just as academically smart like Jun but also street smart. When the Jun's project partner sent this message "Go Yohan r=1−sinθ Kang Jun" as a teasing, Yohan figured out it makes heart on graph (which Jun failed to do) and 128ve980, Jun tried to solve this as a equation, Yohan immediately figured its a viral math puzzle
In college, When Jun's assigment teammate used Jun as his muse for a assigment topic for "Gender and sex" presentation for humanities, Yohan went and confronted him. Yohan is like a ticking timebomb, you dont know what he'll do and you seem to walk around him on eggshells and yet he's charismatic enough that it feels trivial. He's not violent or aggressive, but he carries an aura of danger that tempts anyone to dare play with him (like a devil) and yet throws you off if you make a mistake
Yohan on paper is your typical high spec guy, well built, well endowed, handsome face and rich. More than enough for anyone to put up with some eccentricites. But being with him would pull you deeper into thoughts that it feels like sinking. All in all, it feels difficult to figure out Yohab easily. And as for adult stuff? Yohan is down bad and Jun goes along with flow (though puts on a show of protest) and overall the vibe feels twisted and bit toxic but very interesting. I assumed Jun would hold the leash and walk Yohan like a pet dog, but it feels like its Yohan pulling puppet strings with Jun (but Jun seems alright with letting Yohan to do so and I'm sure he'll cut the string if push comes to shove, but he seems content)