The kind of story you read ONCE. Once is definitely enough. The brutal rapes, abuse is insane.
I’m glad that the mc and the brother found peace together by the end, but for the first 30 chapters or so the older brother had me seething. You live everyday, hearing your little brother get brutalized, you can smell his flesh burning from your father torturing him. He was a traumatized young boy too, but as he got older, he still stayed a coward. It was insane.
That’s why it was so easy to feel like the neon red flag sign “love interest” was looking out for the mc in his own twisted way- you just felt like oh, ok, random rich druggie bought a rent boy to use him for power/ or something, help him kill his perfect older brother that let their father brutalized him daily.
Then the TWIST. The fucking twist. He raised so much hell, caused so much pain, but atleast it made the older brother grow a backbone. It sucks that such an irredeemable character was the key to ending the mc and older brother’s suffering.
It was disturbing and terrible that the older brother got drugged till his health suffered. Opium addiction is HELL, especially in that era. There’s so much literature romanticizing it, love how how the author firmly shows how it deeply affected people in the 19th century.
The brother suffering from that felt like the author’s way of exacting poetic justice in a way, I’m glad we find out later that his health is better, and the author really made it clear that he isn’t mad at the MC for his involvement in that. They both have hurt each other, and they’re both victims. Both chose to forgive one another, for things that many never could.
There are so many parts that is so difficult to read, the mc being raped by his father, the older brother being gang raped to induce trauma bonding by the fucking psychopath—- honestly all of that made me hate this, but I had to see it to the end, all that suffering can’t have been for nothing.
Anyway, interesting and hellish story, 8/10. If you can stomach it, you should finish the story too, then never pick it up again.
And also for some side stories ┗( T﹏T )┛ this was a wild ride, one of the better redemption arcs I’ve ever seen in a ABO universe. would love sidestories, there’s so much the author can do- the MC discovering how beautiful life is, having goals, aspirations, dreams, their WEDDING, their baby— they deserve all of it
Technically mild spoiler, cause I only know up to this chap-
so the MC thought he was isekai-ed into a novel that he read, where it’s an alpha omega world- the characters in the novel have the same name as him and his best friend.
The novel is the real world. Everything happened to him and the ML, it was terrifying and depressing and both of them died tragically.
The MC had wished he could live a better life, a ‘perfect’ life, and he was ‘reborn’ into the life he had at the beginning of the story- a mom, sister, a sweet best friend. There’s no alpha or omega in the world, everyone’s regular people.
The plot twist-
his ‘best friend’ is actually the ML, who was isekai-ed/ technically reborn with his actual memories of their real world into the MC’s ‘perfect’ world. He loves the MC so much, feels so guilty for all the pain and suffering that happened, so they were just best friends, he takes care of the MC.
He remembers they both died, and that this is second chance at making things right with the MC, eventho the MC doesn’t remember anything from their previous life. Unfortunately, neither of them stay in this world, cause at 21, MC was transported back to this real world.
Here’s where it probably got confusing for some ppl, so I’ll try to explain.
The ML does not have memories of the ‘perfect’ world at the beginning of the story. The ML at the beginning was just himself at 30, and then they had sex- thats when he remembers it all- the first life they had, which ends with both their deaths, and the short time they had in the second life in MC’s ‘perfect’ world.
So the ML now has memories of all that happened, but the MC only has memories of the ‘perfect’ world, and not his actual life- he can recall bits and pieces of his trauma, but it doesn’t hurt him too much because he thought it was ‘novel huimin’ and not real.
ML now is trying to prevent the MC from remembering his trauma, he wants the MC to be as happy and as carefree as he is now, and it’s depressing because without his memories, the MC still thinks nothing is real, and it’s just a novel, and that he needs to go back to his perfect world.
Also the whole novel thing was also the ML’s doing. He gave the MC’s sister a novel about their whole story up until their death, and that’s how MC knows about it.
I dunno what happened next, but it’s a happy ending, that much I know.
I have zero idea why the side couple had such loooooooooong chapters in between the main story, and then have the ENTIRE side stories dedicated to them. Where’s the main couple epilogue? Why have ZERO epilogue/side story for the first couple we followed throughout? Crazy.
So much that could’ve been done:
Newlyweds phase, Hilarious pregnancy moments- (doyun is so strong, maybe pregnancy is a walk in the park for him, or maybe it’ll be the first time where he feels more vulnerable physically- either way would have the return of his overprotective crying frog faced alpha, which is fun)
Slice of life moments- have a scene where taehyun’s dream comes true, going off to work and seeing his omega & baby wishing him a good day-
Or taeyun having little silly fights with his baby, as two alphas likely would, trying to get doyun’s attention-
Since doyun doesn’t get jealous, maybe a moment where either one of them gets possessive-
Imagine doyun at the park with his son, random omegas and betas assuming he’s an alpha and trying to hit on him-
These are just at the top of my head, there’s literally SO MANY POSSIBILITES for the first couple. This was a cute story, it wrapped up nicely. The second story seems like the author wanted to write alpha x alpha but instead of a different manhwa, the couple’s fked up story is shoehorned into the first couple’s sweet and hilarious story.
7.5/10