I appreciate that, density aside, the MC doesn't instantly fall in love with the ML and initially thinks he's a just a nice guy without personally finding him romantically or sexually attractive (though of course he can see that the ML is hot). And after the drama hits the fan, he's alarmed and wary and does want to get away and actually tries to do so, even if he's also confused by the ML's apparent affection and suspicious of his motivations.

Do-hwa: I have amnesia! (I hope Min-jun doesn't realize I'm faking it.)

Min-jun: Oh my, poor seonbae, don't worry, I'll take good care of you.

Do-hwa: (... does he realize I'm faking amnesia? Oh god I hope he doesn't know I'm faking amnesia. I can't tell.)

Min-jun: *private conversation with someone else*

Do-hwa: *eavesdrops* (Oh no! He knows I'm faking amnesia! But as long as he doesn't know that I know that he knows, maybe I can muddle through!)

Min-jun: And how are we today, my dear sweet seonbae?

Do-hwa: EVERYTHING IS FINE, AND I AM WELL, MY MEMORY HAS NOT YET RETURNED. (... does he know that I know that he knows?)

Min-jun: How absolutely wonderful. Let's do the horizontal tango all night.

Do-hwa:... (I can't tell. Also, I'm still scared of him but also I have strange feelings toward him. What are these feelings? I don't understand! Even though it's totally obvious that I'm attracted to him and slowly developing feelings but also I'm still very reasonably terrified of him and want to escape, but also I dunno why I think sometimes he's just so sweet and I want to be with him but oh god he's a mu*derer and what if he kills me too arrrgh!)

I will say that Do-hwa's confused thoughts and emotions teetering between attraction and fear are a bit more interesting than the typical, in that he's sort of really ignorant about his own attraction and doesn't recognize it, while the fear and suspicion remain at the forefront most of the time. So it's not the typical "omg I love him but I'm also scared", it's a more atypical "I am developing strange feelings but I'm also legit terrified."

It's also more interesting a portrayal in that there are times when Min-jun doesn't do anything particularly crazy and Do-hwa gets lulled into a sense of security and forgetting his terror, and then BAM Min-jun will whip out a gun and blood will spill and Do-hwa will be like "HOLY SH*T HOW COULD I FORGET HE'S CRAZY" and resume being terrified.

Of course he's increasingly possessive and stalker-y of Do-hwa, eventually getting to the point of literally chaining and handcuffing Do-hwa to the bed any time Min-jun has to leave the apartment and otherwise always accompanying him anytime Do-hwa needs to go out. This isn't a punishment or BD*M thing though, as he makes sure to leave snacks and a mini-fridge and entertainment within reach to make sure Do-hwa is comfortable with limited movement.

And Do-hwa thinks this is weird and extreme and kind of upsetting, not to mention inconvenient, but he knows he has to tread carefully around Min-jun's possessiveness. However, the emphasis from Do-hwa's thoughts is more on the inconvenience and weirdness of it all, rather than OMFG THIS GUY IS INSANE. (Those kind of thoughts are typically reserved for when Min-jun commits actual violence against others. But being chained up to the bed daily? Nah, that's just worrisome and annoying.)

Min-jun also eventually insists that Do-hwa only pee in front of him and never lets him go to the bathroom alone unless it's to do #2, so chaining him to the bed is an extra perk for him as Do-hwa is now technically unable to reach the bathroom on his own. Note though that if this kink is not to your taste, aside from maybe the R18 scene where Min-jun briefly brings it up because they're getting it on in the bathroom, there's no real further detail or scenes involving it besides simply mentioning it as a point of frustration, inconvenience, and embarrassment for Do-hwa (at least up to chapter 97 or so).

They also engage in frequent R18 marathons lasting for days due to typical omegaverse stuff and Min-jun's increasing pressure/desire for Do-hwa, which Do-hwa isn't intellectually into but physically of course it's a different story and emotionally he's, uh, still confused. Min-jun seems to be aiming to get Do-hwa pregnant sooner rather than later, but also seems to be arranging things in certain ways for still-unknown reasons.

Min-jun is *gaspshock* an undercover agent for the CIA chasing down a drug-dealing mafia family that fled from the US to South Korea, and is working with the South Korean authorities as well as the DEA to apprehend them. This totally explains why Min-jun is posing as a super-wealthy college student flashing designer clothes and driving luxury sportscars while carrying a concealed firearm in South Korea, and chasing down supposed criminals and beating them to death with metal pipes.

That, by the way, is the explanation for (most of) the apparent mu*ders he's committed: they were all supposedly attempts to apprehend criminals and/or self-defense against said criminals, and/or I guess it's sort of implied that he just has legal authority to execute them for being so criminally criminal? It's... yeah it's all pretty questionable.

For even more shocking! Twists! Those random people he killed and/or brutally assaulted all just happened to be connected to that evil mafia family! And that occasionally one-liner referenced background serial killer in the story that's been described as killing omegas was that a**hole guy who bullied Do-hwa back in the day! And and and that guy is also connected to the mafia family!!!

Right. Sure.

Look, I wasn't expecting this cliché-heavy trope-y story to blow me away with plot twists, realism, or credibility, but honestly this is kind of a letdown even for a cliché-heavy trope-y story. Sad to say, I think I would have preferred it if the reveal had been the extremely predictable "Min-jun is actually an assassin". I would have turned less side-eye if it had even been something as dumb as "Min-jun is actually a quasi-legal assassin shadily employed off-record by the CIA, DEA, and South Korea, and/or he's an assassin from a secret government agency". The Big Twist of him being a legitimate government agent pursuing justice albeit as a sort of wildcard just doesn't hold enough water.

Oh and Min-jun's dad is also the CEO of a giant famous tech company so yes, as Do-hwa directly asks him and Min-jun confirms, he is indeed a chaebol too. Also, his dad is a former CIA member himself.

Additionally, that doctor told Do-hwa that Min-jun was diagnosed in childhood as a clinical psychopath, and it's eventually revealed that he went through years of treatment. I find it hard to believe that a special government agency would employ a clinical psychopath chaebol in a sensitive position.

Later in the story, it mentions that Min-jun has a childhood history of abusing and mutilating animals—specifically, he loved rabbits, so he kept many rabbits as pets but they seemed like they were always in poor shape (implied to possibly be because he loved them so much, he never wanted to be parted with them and/or didn't treat them properly as pet rabbits?) and frequently died, and at one point he mutilated a rabbit and threw it under the house. It was at this point that his parents took him to a "mental hospital" for help, though I'm a little unclear on the timeline—the story reveals Min-jun's troubled history in pieces with building details, so I'm not sure if he'd already been diagnosed as a child psychopath prior to this or if this was the revealing incident.

So... like, I know that serial killers often have a history of abusing animals and clinical psychopaths can overlap with being serial killers. And Min-jun has killed at least a few people, although he does not as such appear to have a signature method—well, except for maybe beating them to death with a pipe now that I think about it... but he also shoots people. All, of course, in the name of JUSTICE (usually but not exclusively, he's no Dexter), but yeah it's a pretty creepy and disturbingly realistic set of details for the tropey-dumb popcorn-flick style of story, that poor Do-hwa has a clinical psychopath-rabbit-mutilator-and-probable-serial-killer in love with him, especially when Min-jun has repeatedly in the past compared Do-hwa to a rabbit and said how much he loves rabbits.

On the other hand (and also separately from the above), I appreciate that the author actually did some research on medical terms and clinical psychosis. I'm by no means an expert, just someone who's watched occasional crime documentaries and listened to crime podcasts and read Wikipedia—broadly speaking, the presentation of Min-Jun's diagnosis in the story aligns with what I know, which means it sounds like the author read the Wikipedia page on psychopaths lol. But hey, credit where credit is due: I can't count the number of times I've yelled complaints in reviews about how authors couldn't bother to even use Google for basic-a** research of anything and everything, so the bar is low and this novel rises above it!

Not that it's, uh, necessarily a realistically written, well-researched, medically and psychologically deep portrayal of a psychopath—I mean, it's still a tr*shy, trope-laden BL omegaverse web novel. But the author put in some effort in terms of research and attempting to portray flashback chapters from Min-Jun's POV in a manner that shows how he doesn't emotionally connect with others or understand certain things, and teaches himself how to mask so he can pass for normal. The fact that others see him as charismatic while he lacks empathy are other typical psychopath qualities as well. So for what kind of novel this is, I'd say it's pretty well done, with some research behind it and attempts at accuracy ranging from questionable to shallow to pretty decent.

Well, for one thing, the mpreg. Do-hwa is pregnant with freakin' twins and thought he'd kept his pregnancy secret from Min-jun the whole time, but Min-jun reveals that he'd known for a while. Even before this point, the story didn't really touch on Do-hwa's feelings on being a mother, nor much on Min-jun's being a father (or what Do-hwa thinks of Min-jun being a father omfg for that matter), and then the story just ends with a plot-hasty confession of their feelings for each other, agreeing to take a break from school since Min-jun had just publicly announced their dating (to much campus outcry), and leaves off with them on their way to the hospital for a pregnancy checkup.

And that's it. I think most readers would agree that it feels like it's ending with unfinished business on multiple levels. But there's more unfinished/unaddressed business, alas.

Speaking confessions and feelings, I was still not convinced by the end that Do-hwa had reconciled his mixed feelings for Min-jun. His resolve at the end seemed similar to all the previous times in the story when he'd resolved that he did love or was at least liked Min-jun and wanted to be with him, only to later backpedal because Min-jun is, well, crazy and dangerous and a yandere. I think the story was aiming for his resolve to be firm this time since by this point Min-jun had confessed everything to him and made a point to acquire a photo of Do-hwa's father to replace the keychain he'd thrown out the car window and been unable to find later, so I could see the story angling to show that Min-jun was trying to adapt and make allowances for Do-hwa's feelings even if Min-jun couldn't fully understand them, and for Do-hwa to see that and decide to be with him, but, uh, I think there needed to be at least a few more chapters covering a longer time span to fully flesh that out. As it is, I had to do 80% of the work to fill in the gaps with my own theories.

Min-jun apparently just... quit being a CIA agent cold-turkey. Uh. I'm not sure that's how discharge from the CIA's secret dominant alpha squadron works but then again this is a fictional setting by a South Korean author about an American government agency that has, as previously just stated, a secret dominant alpha squadron that has no qualms about recruiting a clinical psychopath to hunt down international criminals in a foreign country.

All the huge plot reveals and stuff about Min-jun's father wanting to kill Do-hwa before the imprint-bond between him and Min-jun is completed felt like it also kind of cut off. Once the bond is completed via pregnancy, it supposedly means that Min-jun will never be able to bond to another omega, and it's generally implied that there's no reason to kill Do-hwa at that point because it's too late. And so... well... Min-jun got Do-hwa pregnant and... that's that. There's no follow up about Min-jun's dad being pissed as he had plans for his son to marry a different omega and in general seemed like a very powerful and very controlling man who would not be pleased to discover his son had tricked him by going to South Korea on the pretense of assassinating Do-hwa only to end up permanently bonding with him instead. But there is no further mention of Min-jun's father.

This one is a minor gripe but like what are the CP going to do about money in the future? Min-jun is apparently of chaebol background but I doubt his dad is going to let him inherit any of that, and although it's possible I don't remember Min-jun being a master of stocks and investments (as many BL male leads often are in order to be wealthy without apparent effort or going to work), am I supposed to take it for granted that a few years of being a CIA agent is enough to set Min-jun and a partner up for life on a millionaire's lifestyle?

Another minor gripe is that most of the recurring side characters get hasty wrapped-up conclusions at best or nothing at worst. Do-hwa does sort of talk to his friend who Min-jun threatened into helping him keep an eye on Do-hwa and forced to commit arson on his behalf, but there's no real follow up on how these two very close friends' relationship weathered (or failed to weather) all that. Do-hwa's crappy family gets a token mention and dismissal by first Min-jun and then Do-hwa but for Do-hwa I really needed a little more emotion and/or determined resolve that, again, would have been better fleshed out in a fuller scene than rushed in the last chapter or so. Min-jun's doctor uncle Jin-yuri is last mentioned as Min-jun having tortured him by breaking his fingers until the doc broke patient privacy to inform him that Do-hwa was pregnant, and that's the last we hear of him. Noah, Min-jun's supposed fiancé whose mansion Min-jun burned down, is also not mentioned again beyond Do-hwa asking Min-jun to apologize to him for said arson and Min-jun obediently agreeing.

I hate to sound like I want everything neatly tied up in a bow with follow up for every single side character and addressing every single emotional aspect and etc, but again, all this is stuff that could've been easily and much more satisfyingly wrapped up with, oh, 5 more chapters and a time skip or two.

uke isn't attractive character for me. I was okay reading this with hope there's some character development, there won't be any.

1. Uke can't stand up for himself when seme literally said they are couple. And when everyone at school & his older brother jealous over uke because uke has handsome boyfriend, he just s*upidly stand there accepting everything. It even happen to the end. When classmate blatantly asked uke to break up with seme even tho they both already mated, uke just kept silent until seme came and told everyone they both mated and uke is pregnant. Like, wtf, use your own mouth to say something.

2. He clumsily tried to lie to seme. I understand why he said he forgot his memories, but come on. Be consistent. Put better effort. He tried to honey trapped seme but in the end he was swept up and instead he was begging for s*x. For real??

3. Yes he is been manipulated by seme it's true. But seme technically never lied to him no? Uke got scared seme is an assassin so he came up with idea that seme is a gangster. He never even consider asking seme real truth. When seme asked him do you really think I m a gangster? Uke just asked back, you're not?

4. Author put useless story here and there. Like when seme manipulated uke that apartment is the safest place so uke wouldn't run away. But at the same time, uke family + older brother texted uke to run away from seme. The misunderstanding won't happen if he just ask what is seme job

5. Uke is already half imprinted since he was a kid when he saved seme. Seme tried to hid the fact that seme family tried to kill uke every single day just so seme could cut their engraving. While seme trying to get uke pregnant. If omega is pregnant his imprint will be completed, which mean even if uke died, seme can't marry or have another kid with other omega. Uke get pregnant is the only way to save his life. But seme withhold such crucial information about uke life only to put mud in the water making misunderstanding and confusion.

6. Seme never bother tell uke his real job, so uke is gullible enough to be fooled by seme enemy.

7. Uke has to be saved. Many. Many times. By seme. When he was kidnapped, when he was sold, when being bullied. Typical burden.

This is all useless plot. Even if author make seme told uke about his job, uke is in danger to be killed by seme family, seme previous mission, seme fake fiance, etc. There are still a lot of plot. Plot with gangster enemy, plot with seme family, plot with people who are jealous and bully, plot with loan shark. There are plots even if author didn't add dumb misunderstandings here and there. It actually infuriating me when I finished the novel and realize, seme is in love alone. Uke didn't actually 'love' him. Uke is kinda, swept by seme and yeah I m pregnant, so I have to be with him yadayada.