I didn't do any of my college homework for today because I got hooked on this and binged the whole thing. It is THAT good, I can't remember the last time I binged a whole ass manhwa in a night damn. The characters 10/10, THE CHEMISTRY WAS PEAK and UGH THE SLOW BURN WAS SOOOOOOO GOODDD
Like, also damn. The plot was interesting. Ngl I started reading this because of the smut tag thinking it was gonna be a "flop fwop" since the beginning, u know, a lot of office sex (my fav) but damn I got sucked in the story so badly. The story is pretty understandable even though the lawyer lingo they use and it's actually interesting as hell how the protagonist starts following the ML ways to be a lawyer.
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When will this bastard (ml) discover the truth? And how much is left?
Spoiler
It's not long now. First the seme destroys the painting of peaceful waves the MC likes to look at, his only solitude in his depressed state. The MC says he hates the seme, that he'll never forgive him.
Do you remember the old auntie that looked after the MC for a little bit in the story? Who disappeared? Well, she turns up and yells at the seme, saying that the MC's soul is all over him, that it was probably one of the prostitutes that did it (I forgot the prostitutes name.)
Well, seme rushes over to where the prostitute is staying, in his rivals old residence. It turns out that she believed she was in love with his rival (who he killed). She doesn't seem mentally well. She orchestrated the entire attack at the main residence and planted the evidence framing the MC because she just KNEW that the seme would punish him for that. So in punishing the MC, the seme would also know what it's like to lose the one you love the most. She says it was easy to get to him because he loved too many people and couldn't choose MC in the end.
The seme keeps digging for more information, trying to see if the MC was truly innocent- trying to save his own skin, find some kind of fault to relieve his guilty conscience. Anyway, safe to say, the MC was not involved at all.
The woman then tells the seme that she sent a gift to the MC. The seme rushes home and it turns out the gift they sent was a knife for the MC to kill himself with, thinking that the seme put the knife there because he wanted it to be that way.
(The servants couldn't immediately take him to the hospital because of the locked shackles.)
Anyway, they get to the hospital, MC lives but he's utterly destroyed mentally, anyone would be.
I can spoil more if you need me too but I think it's okay to stop there.
More pls. The wait is killing me (〜 ̄△ ̄)〜
Me too. I gotta know
Thank you! And yeah please spoil me more. Thing was getting so depressive that I was like "damn, how long is this gonna take"
Yes, please I want to learn more. Thank you for your hard work :)
Okay so:
Spoiler:
The Flower Auntie comes to the Hospital, sees the blood on the seme and stabs him before being restrained (or fainting I forget which) and starts getting treated for her weak heart at the hospital. Flower Auntie is really, really not well (I'll go into this more later.) MC wakes up and he's in a terrible state. He's mentally destroyed and very unsure of himself, a complete shadow of how bright he used to be. The seme takes MC outside and MC asks why he didn't die if the blade was for him and isn't that what the seme wanted? The seme feels terrible, terrible guilt but acknowledges that death would be too easy for himself and that he must spend the rest of his life making it up to MC.
They end up going back to the estate because that's where Flower Auntie can get the best care- However, MC does NOT stay in the room with the seme and actually has a difficult time initially leaving his room at all (he's very scared and depressed and also going through a cleanse of the drug going through his system. It gets to a point where Flower Auntie has to encourage him to leave whilst all he wants to do is stay in that room and hide from the world with her).
From there, we see the seme make multiple attempts to try and make things easier for the MC but the MC is having none of it for a time. Then Flower Auntie gets sicker and eventually passes. The funeral is a horrible affair and honestly in the novel, the MC's internal monologue about it all is so heart-breaking. Like, what does he even have left at this point? If he leaves the estate, where will he go? He can barely walk, barely write, barely read- Who would be willing to look after him/ let him work other than the seme?
On top of the funeral, seme starts not being able to sleep at all (he previously had sleeping issues which is why he used to have prostitutes come to the estate if you don't remember). Anyway, his men get progressively more and more worried- until they eventually have to ask MC to sleep with the seme, so that the clan can actually function under their fully rested boss. The MC does, I forgot the reasoning behind it- but they end up sleeping, just sleeping, nothing sexual of nature if I remember correctly.
From there, things seem to lightly improve I guess?
Before the MC gets kidnapped at-least.
He gets kidnapped, the seme goes to save him by himself stupidly- and whilst blocking the MC from attackers, the seme gets shot but the bullet goes through him and hits the MC too. They die together that way, with the seme saying nothing but apologies and the MC crying whilst saying he was scared and that he didn't want to die.
After that, they're propelled into a modern world I guess- or an alternate world, where the seme is the MC's secretary/assistant if I remember correctly. MC seems to have his memories whilst the seme doesn't. He tries to stay away from the seme at all costs, fearing that the seme will destroy his life again.
I didn't read much into this part because I wanted to see it illustrated first, hope you can understand- but yeah, that's all I have. The MC's death really broke me because he didn't deserve any of what happened to him. I don't really know how the writer can redeem the seme in my eyes but the decision to continue reading, knowing this information, is ultimately up to you.
You are absolutely the BEST! :) THANK YOU!!!!
Ffs that is craaaazy, I have no words.
Thank you
What a crazy ride