-Grape from the get go.
~Not Stockholm exactly but super close. He doesn't outright fall for captor.
-ML is an assassin that gets hired to murder mc's parents.
-ML demands MC as payment for contract instead of MC getting murdered.
-MC falls into depression spiral not long after.
-MC threatens suicide unless ML murders the one who hired him to kill MC's parents. In return the MC will always stay with ML and attempt to love him in return for this nearly impossible task (target is the emperor).
-ML accepts bc he has loved MC since they knew each other as children.
-Last few panels of final chap is them seemingly living normal and fairly happy lives.
2/10
Not worth reading.
Not once does MC have sex when he legitimately desires ML. He does it for survival, trying to feel something beyond the endless boredom of nothing to do beyond sleep, or its transactional.
So not a single enjoyable BL scene to be found.
This is not an enjoyable toxic BL at all.
10/10 chefs kiss!!! Okay kiddos this story is fantastic, one of my top 10.
If you are angsty to finish this one as soon as you can go to NU. It is fully translated with no pay wall, NU just hasn't listed that its completely translated.
You can pick up from ch 11 in novel with some minor overlap of manwha ch 38.
Happy reading kids!











You get kids coming to stir the pot. Ugh...
Whelp, now I will religiously confirm uploader before opening any chapters of my current reads.
Hope these children get bored of this soon.