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Read to ch 8 as at 14/6/17 - DROPPED

Read to Ch 4 as at 2/6/17 - DROPPED

Read ch 39 as of 20/01/21 - FL is an annoying fool. DROPPED - Empress gave birth to twins, a boy Rayburn (ML) and a girl Hoya - Queen gave birth to 2nd prince. Queen died and 2nd prince Ferderic was made the Crown Prince. 1st son was said to be too cruel and responsible for Queen’s death. - General Chancellor is Ferderic’s uncle. Would hit him as a child. - Lady Bourbon is Ferderic’s personal knight / escort guard - Foreign Princess Garnet, Ferderic’s fiancé (originally ML fiancé) - Sir Mano is ML’s personal aide/ knight and escort guard - (FL) Angela’s BL fanfic is published by a merchant without her consent. It becomes a best seller and she is forcibly taken by Ferderic’s men to be killed but is rescued by ML and taken to the palace. With her life on the line she agrees to write a sequel to help improve ML image. After a goose chase by FL and arresting the merchant, Ferderic is aware that ML is hiding FL. - Paparazzi (Blen) caught by FL at night outside her terrace but gets away. ML and FL chase him into town. FL tells him she’s been a fan of his drawings for last 5yrs. Conf’d all drawings sketched were eyewitness accounts. He gave up his stash of drawings for a hefty amount. FL thinks these drawings can also help ML image. - Assassin let go by ML but later killed by Bourbon - FL agrees to learn from ML all that’s needed before the victory banquet celebration in 5 days. Hoya reminds ML not to get attached to FL as she’ll be killed if things go astray. - At the ball, FL enters w/ a bang from wrong door. Later Ferderic asks her to dance which she accepts. There’s a misunderstanding between Princess Garnet and ML (caused earlier by Hoya). FL bumps into Blen and they catchup. Sir Mano is poised to kill FL (under Hoya’s orders) but is stopped by ML. At the end ML agrees to dance w/ FL outside, watched from afar by Blen and some noblewomen. - FL gets closer to Ferderic when they come across eachother in town and spend time together. - FL is summoned w/ other scholars to decipher a note in code. FL speaks to people in palace to obtain clues. Princess Garnet runs into ML and tells him coded document is a short fanfic she wrote. - While lost again, FL hides in a closet and overhears Hoya offering to kill ML and take his place in a deal w/ the General. Later Hoya tells FL that she knows FL was eavesdropping and to just carry on as usual to ensure her safety. - As a child FL was helped by ML to hide from slave traders and they cared for a baby bird called Shuran together. He had paid for her ransom but she mistook the presence of slave traders as there to take her away again so she ran away and never came back. This was on the day he was stripped of the Crown Prince title and was getting kicked out of the palace. - Sparring match between Sir Mano and Bourbon. - Sequel to the fanfic is released and trashes the ML. Search for fake author leads to underground auction where original script of the sequel is put up for sale. Burglars break in and runaway w/ the script and the fake author. ML and FL give chase on horseback. Imperial knights involved and they kill the burglars. FL goes back w/ knights and confirms the merchant is the fake author they have arrested. ML gave separate chase to an assassin who turns out to be the General’s RH knight.

Read ch 23.5 as of 23/02/21 - on hiatus (since Apr20) ** Rate 3.5 stars

Rate 4.5 min - Read ch 46 as of 07/09/20 (total 80 chapters)

Ch 24 as of 02/08/22 - Joo Sooin. Trapped in an abusive relationship with his ex-best friend Kwon Sungha. The abuse started when Sooin confessed to Sungha in high school. - Sungha blackmails Sooin by taking photos of him during sex. - Sooin and Sungha have lived together since they graduated high school. Sungha convinced Sooin’s mother. - Sungha has a girlfriend who knows nothing. - Sungha is studying medicine. - Park Chi-hwan, a vampire - He finds human and vampire blood to be disgusting. He eats vampire hearts and absorbs the vampire’s powers. - Vampires have great regenerative powers. He healed all of the wounds and scars on Sooin with his saliva. - Drinking blood has an aphrodisiac effect on both parties. - Chi-hwan is the owner of a restaurant that Sooin works part-time at. The restaurant manager is aware that Chi-hwan is a vampire. One night Sooin cut his finger on a broken plate. His blood smelled sweet to Chi-hwan. He had the manager investigate Sooin. - Chi-hwan makes a deal to do whatever Sooin wants in exchange for letting Chi-hwan drink his blood. - That night Sooin and Chi-hwan are waiting for Sungha when he comes home. He tries to hit Sooin but is knocked down by Chi-hwan instead. At Sooin’s command, Chi-hwan kills Sungha. Then Sooin offers his blood to Chi-hwan and they have sex. - Sooin is marked by Chi-hwan’s scent when he comes inside Sooin. - Chi-hwan used his own blood on Sungha’s body then left it to disappear when the sun rose. - Sooin wakes up at Chi-hwan’s place. - Chi-hwan takes Sooin shopping for new clothes. - They return home and have intense sex. - Sooin wakes up from a nightmare about Sungha to find Chi-hwan gone. A group of vampires snuck in outside to kill Chi-hwan but they were killed by him instead. Their bodies will disappear when the sun rises. - Seo Chan, a bodyguard hired for Sooin. - Choi Joohyun, Chi-hwan’s link who was abandoned. - Link: a contracted person where a vampire opts to drink the blood of just one human. Vampires can only enter this type of contract once in their lifetime. The link shares immortality with the vampire. The link will experience excruciating pain if their contracted vampire doesn’t drink from them within a certain timeframe. - Chi-hwan takes out a group of vampires nearby. - Joohyun arrives when he’s finished and mentions Sooin. - Chi-hwan refuses to drink Joohyun’s blood. - Joohyun says he’ll leave a mark on Sooin then disappears. - Chi-hwan goes to Sooin and checks him for a mark. It’s in his inner thigh and Chi-hwan removes it by sucking it off. - Then Chi-hwan has rough possessive sex with Sooin. - Seo Chan is actually Sungha in disguise. - Sungha is a vampire now and Joohyun is using his powers to capture vampires for Sungha to eat their hearts and grow stronger.