So basically, I guess the main character was in so much dispair from his parent's death that he allowed himself to be consumed by the ml's desire for him, like literally getting "digested" which had truly transformed the ml's to his final stage of form, a true monster devoid of his human rationality now with the main character consumed into his body.

It might've also been because of the fact that I've always preffered HE but this BE just felt so dreadful I hated it so much despite being fully aware of the story's intentions

But I guess in a sense, they both got what they wanted.

It had more of supernatural creepy ghost theme which was what I preffered and expected originally compared to the first story taking an apolocolyptic theme.

TW: MC was r*ped by the ML's original body while he was sleeping, as well as MC getting persuaded into committing su*cide.

Despite the many extreme things that had happened in this story, I was glad and happy that it at least had a HE where the main characters at least got to be together, even if the ML is in another person's body hiding his true self, you can tell they truly love each other even though many extreme things that had happened

Although we all our spectrum when it comes to whatever gets us fearful and traumatised, the last story was just dreadful.

Literally not a single person 'fully' survives and even MC's one friend who managed escape came back years later only have one year left of living, ready to depart life despair and hopelessness.

The ending, which was right after the friend's monologue was also basically your worst possible nightmare kind of ending where death would be considered the mercyful ending for the main characters as well as the readers cause all that's left are the bits of fragments of the MC during his death and the ml's worm forms along with their offsprings ready to destroy the world.

You can tell that how he descends into madness as the story goes by then going into numbness with that remaining resentment towards the ML that never seems to cease until he was left in that bits of fragments of his formal self. It seemed that before he even came to the village, the formal self of the ML's obsessive actions truly messed him up, and the night that the ML r*ped him was when he truly lost it and accidentally killed the ML.

The MC genuinely despises to the point where he attempts to kill the ML multiple times after the first time happened and it gets quite normal at some point. The dark layers and depths of the MC could be seen where it's even scaring the friend. It was also later revealed that he didn't actually want the ML to come back from that well, he just wanted an excuse to cover up his 'accidental' killing. This was why he could mercilessly bring himself dismember the ML's body into pieces.

MC had this nightmare making him think he was the source of the apocalypse and there was gonna be angst about it since he was avoiding ML. The ML thought it was because he was afraid and fair, their initial interactions were that of a stalker and stalked, erm. you get the idea. However, it was resolved really quickly and some part of that is due to ML blurting out and asking how he would be able to date MC if he (mc) is scared? that silenced both of them. Flabbergasted.

ML blushing because he might like the MC... which is atypical of BL novels so I always appreciate it when the author emphasized that ML’s blushing :>

damn, shouldve not gotten attached to his seatmate, no one there survives, also rip guy who tried to help the MC initially in the pharmacy, wouldnt wish being a singular whole family unit on anyone

err MC too... prly literal? author blurred the line between dream and reality, I personally think he got digested 💀

MC creating monster offspring with the ML, and dooming humanity, cos MC, was as that crazy man said, 'a human, yet also a monster, a monster but also human', created by his parents in an attempt to both get humans to evolve to not let humans become extinct and to not let him die from being so sickly. The apocalypse was due to him being in his breeding period, making him unconsciously transform people around him into monsters to make strong offspring. This is also why he gave off such a sweet smell that no one could resist. So technically it's a merry bad end, as they are sorta in 'love' but well the world's doomed.

the guy ends up with the 'mirror immortal' dude. Like I got tricked by the spoilers and thought MC actually ended up with Li Bo, but nope. It's the vengful spirit which everyone thought the MC managed to kill, but actually broke it's constraints, the mirror. It took over Li Bo's body and is living happy as can be, haha. You can see that 'Li Bo's had a thin, mirror-like crack-like pattern faintly flickering on his iris at the end. I feel bad for Li Bo, Aunt Qian and Li Chen. Like imagine ur in Li Bo's shoes. Basically forced into the Li family by his mom, then after being saved by his mom, being told that she regretted doing so, then after being in that loveless family, u find that ur lil bro had it worse and has half gone mad. U try to help him protect the person he liked after his death, to ignore the fact that ur bro was very much stalking and obsessed with the MC, after what he went through, but in the end u fail and u are forced to see the mirror immortal being in your body. U are possibly being trapped for eternity watching him in your body pretend to be you with the MC, who you have half fallen for. As for Aunt Qian, she did so much to help Li Bo and his mom, but instead they are all dead. And as for Li Chen, imagine you're being ab*sed as a child, and there is just one person, the light of your life, who helps you despite his own circumstances. Then, you get dragged away to the Li family, and all you want is to go back. In the Li family, they throw you to suffer in the cold, dark basement for a year or two, where the only thing inside is a mirror, and you then get half taken over by the demon your family is raising. So now, he sees Siguang too and wants to drag him down to be his. Your sickening grandparents also want you to have more children to sacrifice to the demon before you die, but since you refuse, they put a death curse on the MC. So, although you can finally see the light of your life again, you have to act cold to him, and you make a deal to the demon to give all you have to him in return for him not touching the MC, and you have to die as part of the deal. But that ass doesn't keep his promise, and so you struggle as a remnant ghost to help the MC in getting out of his clutches. But in the end MC still got tricked ahhh, even tho you helped him get out of the underworld...

the MC alr hates the original body of ML due to him forcing himself on MC. MC used a lot of methods and finally escaped to the countryside. But original body of ML followed him there, becoming ML when he died. ML took over ori ML's memories and feelings, and also took over everyone in the village as food cos he wants to bring MC underground and make him his breeding nest. He technically loves MC, but MC doesn't rly like him. The end is that MC gave himself up to ML to let a friend leave safely, and err after 40 years the friend bought the place and is trying to destroy it to contain the monsters, but... welp, him and the kids are too strong now... haha

so basically at the end of arc 1 the ML consumes the MC and basically succumbs to being a monster bruh I thought it was a metaphor or some shi, though it was consensual I hated it the struggle to survive over the past 40 lor more long ass chapters was just for nothing wtf The ML kept struggling to stay human just to end up as a monster in the end....

The ending was not even Li or chen it was the freaking mirror gost wowwowoow okay I guess