BUT WAIT! There's more... okay so there is ONE scene that I consider a DOUBLE r*pe. Basically because of #reasons the MC and ML are forced to by the Killing Show's Sponsers/higher-ups to have s*x together. They are required to use drugs, follow instructions, and their whole bang session will be recorded and sold like p*rn. This is the first time I've read about a situation I could dare call double r*pe. The alternative to not having s*x with each other (MC/ML) is to get tortured for fun by rich folk for a few days. Between the two options, yeah they were gonna choose to have s*x with each other, but that doesn't mean it didn't feel wrong. Good god, it was their first time together but traumatizing for both of them. Phew yeah okay I think I spoiled enough

Also I can't express enough how much I love switch couples in BLs. I like them so much because it just feels so much more equal. Especially in this story setting, they both deserved to get some of each other, these poor sons of b*tches

Also it's a HE. Mostly. Can't say anything about some of the poor poor side characters though.

die very quickly then the author would go on a rant how they are just props for the TV show. This is what happens in this world. That no ones death matter.

In the easter egg plot, a character tortures another player on an altar. The author mentions oh there is blood in the killing game. Then we have everyone's reaction like oh so bad we can't do anything. We don't want that to happen to us. But what the hell happened on the altar? I bet even the author does not know.

especially as every few chapters, the author mentions how the MC and his actions are going to change and revolutionize the Upper Area.

Even as rich people are getting killed, nobody is doing anything. Police? Law? Never heard of them. The killings are just used as entertainment because they were done after the MC explained the 'law of revenge' that the area he lives in abides by. You'd think the higher-ups would have enacted a law that protects themselves and their own interests at least?

✔ The Upper City → Think Elysium or the Capitol from The Hunger Games—but worse. A floating metropolis where the rich don’t just ignore the suffering below them, they actively turn it into entertainment. Killing games, human experimentation, r@pe, and even reanimating dead people for pleasure are considered normal.

✔ The Lower City → Similar to Cyberpunk 2077’s Night City or Snowpiercer’s tail section—a lawless zone where survival is brutal and morality is blurred. It’s filled with crime, human experiments gone wrong, and people discarded by the system. The rich drop their failed “projects” here, leaving the poor to suffer the consequences.

✔ The Killing Shows → The most extreme version of Battle Royale—but televised. Criminals, debtors, and even random people can be thrown into these live-streamed death matches. If you can’t pay your loans, you might just end up in one.

Even the rich aren’t always safe. One of the major figures in the story, Minkov Jr., is an heir to immense power but was horrifically ab*sed by his own father. He’s one of the people who ultimately burns the system down.

✔ Xia Tian (MC) : A convicted criminal from the Lower City. He has a 6-year-old sister named Deedee, an older sister who was a prostitute, and a mother who was the same. His older sister was ab*sed, and he killed the ab*ser for it. That’s why he’s a mu*derer.

✔ He was literally sold to the Killing Show. Not because he was a contestant, but because the rich needed new entertainment. They wanted to see how someone from the slums would fight for his life.

✔ Xia is a survivor of a Lower City massacre. He hates the rich not just for himself, but because he saw them destroy everything he loved.

✔ Bai Jingan (ML) : He was also a survivor of the same massacre. But unlike Xia, he doesn’t remember his past—he has brain damage.

✔ Bai has amnesia. He had no idea that he was actually a famous resistance leader. He only knew himself as a cold strategist, someone trained for survival. He didn’t have any emotional connection to the cause because he didn’t even know he was part of it.

✔ His tipping point? When the rich captured and tortured Xia. That’s when Bai stopped following the mission and started making it personal.

✔ Their Relationship? Built on survival. Bai was cold and distant at first, but over time, Xia's chaotic energy broke through.

✔ They trusted each other because they had to. Not because of some romantic attraction—but because they were all the other had.

✔ And when Xia was taken, Bai didn’t hesitate. He went to war.

Bai isn’t actually as complex as Xia, but his loyalty runs deep. If Xia says, I want to kill them, Bai doesn’t say, That’s wrong. He says, Alright, let’s plan it right.

And that’s why they work.

Jakowski, the head planner of the Killing Show, is a fascinatingly complex villain. He’s part of the system but protects the protagonist for his own benefit—not because he’s good, but because Xia is making him money.

Minkov Jr., the heir to power, doesn’t join the rebellion because he’s “inspired” by the hero—he does it because he already wanted to burn everything down.

This is realistic revolution storytelling. No one person can bring down a system alone. Fire doesn’t just ignite—it spreads.

When the final battle happens, the world doesn’t magically become better. Some of the rich escape. Some parts of the system still stand.

But the floating cities? They fall. Mostly.

And the last lines of the novel? Perfect.

Minkov Jr.: “I found someone who needs to die. Wanna kill him?”

Xia & Bai: “Hell yeah.”

(Paraphrased)

✔ No forced happy ending.

✔ No sudden utopia.

✔ Just survivors who refuse to stop fighting.

It’s the kind of ending you’d expect from Children of Men, Snowpiercer, or The Road. Not a pretty resolution—just the next step in a long, brutal journey.

Although there is little to no romance between them in the first 100 or so chapters, you will be convinced that they are absolutely made for each other long, long before that. The rest is just inevitable.