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Shahid, Durant are first cousins; Shahid's mother, and Durant's father were siblings. Owen and Durant are second cousins; Durant's grandfather and Owen's father were brothers. Devon is Owen's only child. So she is Shahid's and Durant's third cousin.
Hope this makes sense.

Thank you for this!
But for clarification, i think i read many times where Durant called Owen his uncle? And a scene where Devon said somethung like "its weird that you have romantic feelxing for your uncle"....

He isn’t using the formal Korean word for ‘parent’s brother’. He is using the Korean word for ‘older “brother” that is like a father’. Which is informally used as the word uncle.
I believe he calls him for two reasons. One is because it could get confusing with calling both father and daughter cousin. Two, because Durant wants to tie Owen closer to him, making/ reminding Owen that Durant is still dependent on him.

Yeah, the beginning is tough to understand because it keeps jumping time and characters, but if you keep reading without focusing on minor details, eventually it will get easier. If you still want an overview of the beginning, tho, just keep reading. I also asked for an overall explanation when I started because I didn't understand shit haha

Overall you have 4 main characters: Kinard, a young nobleman; Yesing, Kinard's right hand man; Shahid, Kinard's friend and also a nobleman and Alvin, a young boy who was kidnapped and then saved by Kinard (we start at his rescue).
10 years before the main timeline, Kinard was a young nobleman soon to be engaged to a woman named Judith. She and her family is accused of treason, and hence executed. A couple of doctors who were also in Kinard's close friends are murdered as well, and their very young son, Alvin, is kidnapped by a horrible man who does sick things to dead bodies.
Time passes, Kinard feeds on revenge to all people who harmed Judith and is quite bitter. Yesing, a boy he rescued around the same time the whole issue happened, helps him assume an identity as Chaff, a shady character he can use to investigate things. As Chaff, Kinard comes into contact with the sick doctor who kidnapped Alvin, who the doctor renamed as Lyron. Kinard kind of recognizes the boy as Alvin, who he thought had died, and helps him escape, bringing him home to take care of him after years of abuse and mistreatment.
The rest is easier to follow, because it's mostly Alvin and Kinard coping with traumas and developing romance, Yesing being too cool and Shahid being a dense idiot ready to horny jail *bonk*.

Thank u so much!

I feel the same actually

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