A dark, evil, chaotic harem novel.
The protagonist died in the second year after eloping with his rival's rumored boyfriend.
He drank himself to death in a cheap hotel room, his body broken, collapsing on the road to freedom alongside the love he had believed was his own.
Once the darling of the art world, he died without a sound. On the day he passed away, his arranged-marriage partner, his childhood friend, and his first love were all attending his rival's award ceremony.
There was an empty seat in the corner of the front row. No one mentioned him in their interviews.
*
Reborn, the protagonist regretted everything.
He returned to the eve of his elopement. By then, he had already been carrying on a secret sexual relationship with his rival's rumored boyfriend behind the backs of both his arranged-marriage partner and his rival.
He no longer dared to steal someone else's rumored boyfriend, or indulge himself by offending his rival and all the other shrewd people around him.
He swore he would never again use his beauty to get away with anything, treating rules and morality as though they meant nothing.
He tried to put an end to this illicit relationship.
But then he received a threatening letter: the other man was going to make their affair public. With no choice, he steeled himself and went to the hotel where they always met in secret.
As the letter instructed, he put on a blindfold, slipped his hands into the handcuffs, and closed his eyes.
Then a hand touched his waist. On its little finger was his rival's ring, a symbol of his commitment to remaining unmarried.
The protagonist was horrified to realize that the person who had come tonight was someone else.
*
The protagonist thought he had betrayed everyone and that the whole world despised him.
After starting over, it took him a long time to discover that those people had been viciously tearing into one another over him.
And at last, they made their choice.
They would rather share him than let him escape.
* All love interests are strictly tops. The rumored boyfriend is only a rumor; don't pair the love interests with each other.
* The protagonist is self-destructive, willful, beautiful, gifted, fragile, addicted to seeking love, and emotionally dependent.
* One-on-one pairings at different stages, with everyone continuously pining for him.
Theme: I was controlled by my little head
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