I didn't add the Pure Love tag. The System added it automatically. I changed it once, but that's the only tag I can't remove...
Two male leads + star-crossed love + main character is the bottom + universally adored protagonist + lots of love at first sight and male worship
Doesn't follow the main storyline
Literary version:
They knelt before the angel and prayed:
“Gabriel, if I worship You because I fear the fires of Hell, then let those fires consume me.
If I worship You because I long for Heaven, then deny me Heaven.
But if I worship You for Your own incomparable beauty,
then please do not hide Your peerless face from me.”
The angel lowered his eyes and gazed at the people reaching out to him. He let blood fall upon their foreheads, absolving them of their love and their sins.
Straightforward version:
After losing his memory, Gabriel was taken in by Victor Hugo, who had only just come of age. He should have spent his life cherished by everyone as the angel of the Paris Commune.
But the mission in his mind drove him to gather the seven deadly sins within himself.
He went to the battlefield for this, and from then on came to understand that “rights are power.”
As he sought to control that power, he met many people and tasted many kinds of love and hate. Some were his enemies, some his companions, and some his pawns.
When at last he stood at the pinnacle of power, he looked back and discovered that the family he had wanted to protect as a boy had drifted farther and farther away.
Those who loved him and those he loved all became jewels, brilliant or dim, in his crown.
Pride made the Morning Star fall. Which sin will make you fall?
“No. I will forever remain the angel hanging high above France, never falling, never content, never still.”, Gabriel
The author has never read the original work and does not even know that Rimbaud and Verlaine changed their names.