Codename Anastasia
Ch50. Korean intelligence operative uke does whatever it takes to keep his flawless mission success rate. He is the only remaining boy in his family after everyone else died as soldiers etc, so he keeps his job secret from mum. He is given a mission undercover to find out if a weapon exists in russia; his mission goes wrong from the start as seme already onto him but uke doesnt find out until later. Instead he believes seme is partner sent by korea to help him, but psycho (a little like him). Train scene where seme picks up women and entices uke into a threesome, but then starts coming onto uke (literally lol). And then bedroom scene, where uke gets drugged by the rich old man theyre investigating and uke then finds out semes real identity and is raped relentlessly before dumped in a river. On reflection, seme tried or considered killing uke many times, but was entertained by playing with his life instead. Uke regroups and uses the seme villain speech where he revealed secrets right before his death (that didnt eventuate) to find the weapon code in semes bedroom. Season 1 ended (novel exists; uke gonna blow that place up, attempt to flee to embassy but seme gonna catch him etc. A second novel was released in 2024, which might one day get adapted).
Following Namsoo To The Bathhouse
Cold-Blooded Beast
Seme is born a SNAKE. So good. He one day was able to become human, met uke in prev life, ill fated love tho - seme was supposed to eat him to ascend as a dragon but refused to - led to bad luck and uke died. Uke wished to meet seme again. Seme wished for uke to have a normal afterlife and sacrificed years of pain etc for it. Then uke reborn, meets seme as his boss. We dont know until later, but seme has been watching over uke since he was a child to protect ag his awful luck (born to horrid parents, abandoned, etc - seme arranged him to be adopted by a nice lady). Uke grows up great but lonely, then seme wonders if uke would fall for seme if he entered his life as a stranger - he does. However bad luck putting uke life at risk etc, seme decides to 'die' as a human and removes himself from uke life. Uke very upset. Eventually seme loses memories in accident, comes before uke as a snake and then turns human - uke shocked to see his dead ex is a snake and alive, takes him home to care for him. Snake has no memories, uke teaching how to do everything, very cute and also naughty... Then gets memories back, they work on a solution together - snake to eat and then regurgitate uke, and all ends well.
Crucial Point