Oh lawd. Honestly the people saying it has no plot I’m just sitting here like ‘?????’ It has a plot, the plot is just a bunch of cliches but they are stacked together in a very interesting way. The story is presented out of chronological order but you are never confused and easily slip the info in where it is supposed to be too. Honestly I’ve read ones where the plot is fucking everywhere and nowhere and hard to follow but this isn’t one of them. Plot when you work it chronologically is the Duke has both a mental illness and a predisposition to sadism that he realizes in childhood when his disgusting brother is using his sister to fulfill masochistic tendencies. The whole royal family is mentally ill after years of inbreeding and determined to break the cycle so that the country can finally have a sane ruler he arranges for his sister the only sane member of their generation to have a child with someone outside their bloodline. The princess actually falls in love with that guy and in order to protect him lies that the child is her brother’s but not the king who is forcefully with her and killed her first husband but the duke. The lover of the princess would have given up all his power and probably his life for her and the child if she hadn’t lied to him and in his heartbreak he runs off to gather power and becomes the pope. The duke wants the child on the throne since he’ll finally be a sane ruler and thus claims him. The Duke is unable to just kill the current king abusing his sister as he wanted to because his sister told him not to in order to keep the country stable. While waiting for the day the king dies he is highly bored and the voices in his head have him waging war regularly. While on the battlefield he sees a mercenary absolutely dominating and kinda gets horny for him and hires his mercenary group to guard the capital of his dukedom. Then later on while hunting he sees a man who obviously didn’t understand the the Duke’s flag being up at the hunting grounds means the Duke is actually there hunting and out of curiosity follows him to a scene where another mercenary tried to rape him and the guy killed him. The Duke then also follows him to where he met with a woman and while he is fucking the woman the Duke fantasized about fucking him. The Duke is bad at taking the meds that keep the voices away and one of the reasons for that is that it has the side effect of making him horny af so coupled with his interest in this new ‘toy’ he wants to play with due to how hot he was on the battlefield, how unfazed he was killing his would-be rapist, and the sadistic streak in him he decided to take the man as his lover. It allows him to work out the side effects of his meds, pass time while the young prince grows up, and indulge in sadistic tendencies towards someone strong enough not to break. Kinks are wild and while exploring his the duke falls for the mercenary and uses his power coupled with plots and manipulation to try to keep him. The mercenary both unhappy with being trapped and not believing the duke cares enough has misgivings about their relationship obviously and after a particularly sadistic session runs away. Obvi Duke ‘make plots and trap people’ sets a trap and catches him back and makes it clear no matter how much freedom he gives the mercenary will never escape him. Due to realizing the sadistic play is what pushed him over the edge to run the Duke also launches a consent campaign, even though the mercenary can’t really deny him due to the vast power imbalance and inability to escape. But eventually due to the constant asking for consent and the dukes beauty the mercenary eventually catches that Stockholm Syndrome and over the span of 10 years actually falls for the Duke (now king after his brother the previous king got got by the sister who didn’t wanna kill him originally but came to her senses). The relative ‘freedom’ where he can’t go far but he can go out, the constant asking of consent, and the sheer amount of orgasms he’s had drives him insane and eventually the mercenary is full in the relationship but still refuses to be public. Honestly the humor and sass are the best parts too. Honorable mentions to Ilic picturing himself in a queens gown, Ilic punching SaYan in the face multiple times and feeling guilty about the bruises, and the moments where SaYan shows how absolutely insane he thinks but doesn’t act on those thoughts because he loves Ilic. ‘I’m glad I came back on my own’ being an unforgettable line and a bust out laugh moment.
Oh lawd. Honestly the people saying it has no plot I’m just sitting here like ‘?????’ It has a plot, the plot is just a bunch of cliches but they are stacked together in a very interesting way. The story is presented out of chronological order but you are never confused and easily slip the info in where it is supposed to be too. Honestly I’ve read ones where the plot is fucking everywhere and nowhere and hard to follow but this isn’t one of them.
Plot when you work it chronologically is the Duke has both a mental illness and a predisposition to sadism that he realizes in childhood when his disgusting brother is using his sister to fulfill masochistic tendencies. The whole royal family is mentally ill after years of inbreeding and determined to break the cycle so that the country can finally have a sane ruler he arranges for his sister the only sane member of their generation to have a child with someone outside their bloodline. The princess actually falls in love with that guy and in order to protect him lies that the child is her brother’s but not the king who is forcefully with her and killed her first husband but the duke.
The lover of the princess would have given up all his power and probably his life for her and the child if she hadn’t lied to him and in his heartbreak he runs off to gather power and becomes the pope. The duke wants the child on the throne since he’ll finally be a sane ruler and thus claims him. The Duke is unable to just kill the current king abusing his sister as he wanted to because his sister told him not to in order to keep the country stable. While waiting for the day the king dies he is highly bored and the voices in his head have him waging war regularly. While on the battlefield he sees a mercenary absolutely dominating and kinda gets horny for him and hires his mercenary group to guard the capital of his dukedom. Then later on while hunting he sees a man who obviously didn’t understand the the Duke’s flag being up at the hunting grounds means the Duke is actually there hunting and out of curiosity follows him to a scene where another mercenary tried to rape him and the guy killed him. The Duke then also follows him to where he met with a woman and while he is fucking the woman the Duke fantasized about fucking him.
The Duke is bad at taking the meds that keep the voices away and one of the reasons for that is that it has the side effect of making him horny af so coupled with his interest in this new ‘toy’ he wants to play with due to how hot he was on the battlefield, how unfazed he was killing his would-be rapist, and the sadistic streak in him he decided to take the man as his lover. It allows him to work out the side effects of his meds, pass time while the young prince grows up, and indulge in sadistic tendencies towards someone strong enough not to break.
Kinks are wild and while exploring his the duke falls for the mercenary and uses his power coupled with plots and manipulation to try to keep him. The mercenary both unhappy with being trapped and not believing the duke cares enough has misgivings about their relationship obviously and after a particularly sadistic session runs away. Obvi Duke ‘make plots and trap people’ sets a trap and catches him back and makes it clear no matter how much freedom he gives the mercenary will never escape him. Due to realizing the sadistic play is what pushed him over the edge to run the Duke also launches a consent campaign, even though the mercenary can’t really deny him due to the vast power imbalance and inability to escape. But eventually due to the constant asking for consent and the dukes beauty the mercenary eventually catches that Stockholm Syndrome and over the span of 10 years actually falls for the Duke (now king after his brother the previous king got got by the sister who didn’t wanna kill him originally but came to her senses).
The relative ‘freedom’ where he can’t go far but he can go out, the constant asking of consent, and the sheer amount of orgasms he’s had drives him insane and eventually the mercenary is full in the relationship but still refuses to be public. Honestly the humor and sass are the best parts too. Honorable mentions to Ilic picturing himself in a queens gown, Ilic punching SaYan in the face multiple times and feeling guilty about the bruises, and the moments where SaYan shows how absolutely insane he thinks but doesn’t act on those thoughts because he loves Ilic. ‘I’m glad I came back on my own’ being an unforgettable line and a bust out laugh moment.