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It’s a weapon for them to both stay financially supported and alive. I mean they made Sooha go through emotional trauma to find the jewel, they abused him on multiple occasions physically, they shot their own spies. Who’s to say they won’t kill Ray/Sooha once they get it to hide all they’ve done?
I think he wanted the feeling of being needed by his grandfather. He didn’t want to give up the jewel because he would be left with only money, no ‘love’.
There is a plot hole that bugs me. If the secret about the jewel was a mean for the mc to stay financially supported, he could have done an exchange years ago. He could have said earlier to his grandfather “I want that much money in exchange” and he would have been free from guards + rich with his own money.
Throughout the story, I was kind of frustrated because if this dumb “detail”