For those who want detailed spoilers!!!

I finished the novel a while ago so I forgot some things but here’s the gist.

After this point, Taekjoo (imma write Taek for him) tries to escape multiple times and obviously fails because like Zhenya said the island is in the middle of nowhere, it’s super cold too (it’s Russia). It becomes a thing where Taek and Zhenya make a game out of it where they compete at certain things (ex. Who can catch more fish, who can hunt better, rock paper scissors at one point etc.) the deal is whoever loses has to grant the wish of the winner. Obviously the only thing zhenya wants is Taek’s booty cheeks while Taek just wants to escape. Even during these matches and while Zhenya leaves the island Taek tries to escape.

Slowly they start developing feelings for each other, more so on Zhenyas part, but because he has the emotional capacity of a toddler and is lowkey a sociopath, he cannot express himself and instead just keeps hurting Taek but there is some development. Zhenya brings Taek Korean food which was his way of thinking about him. At one point Zhenyas sister arrives and starts questioning their relationship and this is when Taek kinda realizes how ridiculous their relationship is and how complacent he is got (at this point zhenya and Taek had been sleeping together in the same bed all this time he has been trapped there). Taek has a moment where he decides enough is enough and tries to grab blankets to sleep in a different room. Zhenya stops him and tells him he has no right to decide what to do bc Zhenya basically controls him and whatever. Taek finally snaps and claps back at him saying he’s had enough which absolutely makes Zhenya tweak out and he starts to choke Taek out. Taek says he’d rather die than keep sleeping with him and laughs which results in Zhenya actually nearly killing him. Realizing what he’s done, he lets Taek drop to the floor and this is the very first time Zhenya had ever been panicked about what he’d done/ almost killing someone. I guess at this point is where he slowly realizes that he actually wants Taek alive/ likes him. He quickly leaves the island to get away from the moment while his sister checks on Taek and provides him with first aid (he’s still breathing but obviously man’s got choked out he isn’t ok).

Taek comes to and this part is a little iffy I think the sister tells him she’d never seen him react like that before when he thought he kills Taek fr so she kinda try’s to tell him like I think he cares for you but in his own very insane way. Then this part is where it gets wild, people come and like bomb the mansion presumably to kill Zhenya who isn’t there at the time so Taek and the sister have to run and try to hide. I think Taek ends up getting shot or injured (but not deadly) but still it’s super cold he’s injured and he hides in a cave to which Zhenya finds him in (at this point Zhenya returns to the island and is trying to fend them off and also find Taek). He finds him and treats him, and is lowkey being more kind whatever that means to him. They have a moment outside where zhenya was sitting outside in the snow and Taek decides to join him with some vodka and kinda make small talk together. This moment was actually pretty cute it was like the first kinda normal interaction they had. Then I think Taek trips or gets knocked onto the snow on his back but he kinda just lays there and admires the sky. Zhenya gets on top and stares at him, and then tries to kiss him but Taek was like nah our relationship isn’t one where we kiss. The stuff after is again iffy to me but zhenyas sister has an illness where she needs an inhaler or something and one of the chemicals in the inhaler thing can make an explosive so while zhenyas sister was about to leave the island on another helicopter, Taek bombs the roof top and uses her as a “hostage” (I think she was in on the plan to help him escape) and Taek ends up escaping the island with her on the helicopter while zhenya watches in despair bc his helicopter was bombed and couldn’t go after him.

———- imma end it here but there’s a whole second part. If there’s enough people who want me to continue I’ll type out the rest. The ending is “happy” one I will say.