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You think Kiss the Villain is dark? Well, let me show you its more deranged cousin. Sick Bargain is DARK, REALLY DARK.

It touches sensitive topics often.

That being said. I'm giving it a 4.7 starts out of 5. Not going to tell you why, to many spoilers if I say it 🤣

Loved the setting. Everyone in that town is FUCKING NUTS. Not saying more than that. Read the book

Krypt is a fucking devil, but not the worse devil out there. You'll see

Remi is so cute, but also crazy in his own way. I love it!

My favorite out of the Vile Boys are: Riot, Kyd, Krypt, Menace and Ransom

I like all of them, but those are my favorites 😊

Listen to me: This book is not everyone's cup of tea.

Again:

THIS

IS

NOT

A

BOOK

FOR

EVERYONE

Maybe you think you can read it bcs you read Dark Romance, maybe that Dark Romance book is softer than this and you're not used to this shade of dark.

Also! This book IS NOT for newbies in the genre

READ THE DAMN TRIGGER WARNINGS!!!!!!

Here they are, so you can't say I didn't warned you:

See the trigger warnings? If you still want to read then:

Have a good read! 💗💖

Going for the next book of this series! Fragile Facade!

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thinking abt sieun studying everything he can about suho's condition and filling SEVERAL notebooks cover to cover with suho's symptoms, scope of abilities, progrees. he painstakingly draws diagrams and step by step instructions of the muscle rehabilitation exercises suho's physiotherapist gives him so he can guide him through it when he forgets. he pulls aside nurses at the hospital to take notes on the medication suho's taking, his calorie intake, his BMI and rate of muscle mass regeneration. he stays up late reading case study after case study of long-term coma patients and how well they recovered after waking up. sieun who isn't studying medicine but gets mistaken for it all the time bc even in the uni study halls he's watching some sort of medical video on head trauma and its effect on cognition.

just !! give me sieun who uses studying and knowledge as a coping mechanism because he hates feeling so powerless when it comes to suho's health

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sieun’s eyes on paper

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I always wondered what suho would have done if sieun were the one who fell into a coma :(

in my opinion, anon, if sieun ended up in a coma, suho wouldn’t fall apart the same way sieun did. he wouldn’t send desperate texts begging for him to wake, nor would he break down visiting with grief in his eyes. he wouldn't stop eating, he wouldn't lose sleep. no, suho’s way is different.

he’d show up every day like clockwork, sliding into sieun's hospital room with a kind of casualness that almost feels like denial. he’d drop his bag, pull up a chair, and start talking—about the cafeteria food, the ridiculous homework, some customer at his delivery job? things he used to talk to sieun about. things that kept the world tethered.

“you're still not talking to me? rude,” he’d say with a mock-annoyed voice, though no one’s there to hear it.

he’d fill the silence with his voice, like they were just hanging out; suho yapping, sieun quiet — their usual dynamic. like nothing’s broken. maybe he’d bring snacks, or games, or books sieun liked, but mostly, he’d just be present. no tears. no desperate pleas. just steady, stubborn presence.

because for suho, absence probably wouldn't be about waiting for a miracle. it’d be about holding the space where sieun used to be, refusing to let it vanish.

HOWEVER, the other side of suho? the side that wants revenge? what would he do? he wouldn’t lose control like sieun did. there’d be no blood trails, no shattered windows, no violent echoes through the halls. no screams, no raging outbursts, no expulsion letters from school. because suho doesn’t erupt like sieun.

think about the last time sieun got hurt? suho didn’t rage. he didn’t scream or flip desks or smash a dumbbell on a foot or stab pens into arms. he gathered names like pieces on a chessboard, lining them up on a rooftop like a teacher calling roll. then he broke them — one by one — methodically, like ticking off errands. when it was done, he took a photo. less of a threat, more of a proof. and sent it to beomseok with one cold line: answer the phone or i’ll kill your friends.

he learned that youngbin hurt sieun’s hand, so suho found him, pinned him down, and crushed his fingers underfoot—not with anger, not with haste, but with a casual quietness, like putting out a cigarette. like procedure.

so if sieun were taken from him — if sieun were lying in a hospital bed, unconscious and unreachable — suho wouldn’t collapse. he’d organize.

a car sliding off a road in the rain. a bottle of pills emptied too suddenly. a missing poster curled at the corners, fluttering on a telephone pole. there would be no pattern. no evidence. just absence. and suho would still be at school—on time, composed, making eye contact in the hallway. like everything's normal.

because this wouldn’t be revenge. it would be removal.

sieun fights like something cornered: raw, furious, desperate to be seen. suho cuts like frostbite. he's silent and precise. by the time you notice, it’s already done.

suho would always say "let's not cross the line," but he would, for sieun. and the most insane part is that suho wouldn’t even think he crossed a line. he’d believe there was no line left to cross.

because sieun was the line.

without him, there’s only silence. and a ledger of names waiting to be crossed out.

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to all of my readers, there has been some major scraping on ao3 for generative ai during the last few days. thankfully, none of my fics have been scraped (yet) so until further notice i’ll be locking ALL of my fics.

[this is what it looks like now]

none of my fics are currently visible to guest accounts so i URGE you to make a registered account to continue reading my works!

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Vaughn: Okay. What's the first thing you notice when a man approaches you?

Gareth: The audacity.

Vaughn: ...

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Vaughn: Shut the fuck up or I’m going to put a bullet in your ass

Yulian: Oh, I love things in my ass

Vaughn: ...

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So, a friend @honeyscovet told me about Sick Bargain. Some parts of the plot and all that. And let me tell you, it makes KTV look like a soft dark romance. It also has a 5 🌟 reviews on Storyboard and Amazon and good reviews on Goodreads.

The fucking double standards is NUTS. Like, you love a book that has a WAY DARKER PLOT, but you can't manage that Rina made a DARK book herself? Istg 🙄🙄🙄

KTV still has very good reviews, but do you see what I see? People just hate just to create drama and ruin the experience for someone else

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Gareth: I’m afraid no fruit is ever topping strawberries. They are the best fruit

Kayden: What do you know about topping?

Gareth: I hate you

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Kayden: Gareth, what does "IYKYK" mean?

Gareth: If you know, you know.

Kayden: frowning. But I don’t know, that’s why I asked??

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If Kayden Lockwood has you losers shaking in your boots, you are not going last 3 seconds with Sila Varun or any of the DOV men

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TOOPRETTYFORTHISMESS (WHAT? I AM.)

Not Gareth's reddit username😭

This book really should have been called God of Pride

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will you write VaughnYulian fics?

Yes!! I definitely will!! I love them already and can’t believe I have to wait A YEAR for their book 😭

But yes, feel free to drop VaughnYulian prompts in my request form!!

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I don’t think it was hate from Gaz’s side though 🤷‍♀️ Jealousy, insecurity? Sure, it was. Kill isn’t innocent either. Reading GOM though? Definitely felt the hate Kill has for Gaz

I’m sorry but if you think KTV was hard to swallow and you're clutching your pearls, you are not going to survive the other dark mm romance I read.

KTV is tame compared to that.

Also, FUCK YOU ALL for hating Gareth and suddenly riding into the dawn for Killian (who was hated until two days ago). Your first mistake was thinking Gareth was going to be like Brandon or that Gaz & Kill are going to be like Lan & Bran.

Lan and Bran are dark and light whereas Gaz and Kill are both dark but they still belong to each other and will kill for each other. That’s that. Get that through your thick skull.

You are mad at Gaz unknowingly creating distance between Kill and Asher but forget Kill actually smiled when he saw a rabid dog bite Gaz. Forgot that? Hmm. Or when Gaz was his punching bag for years (mind, Gaz could very well hit him back but he never did).

Kill seems like a good brother only through Gaz’s perspective and due to Glyn’s influence. We saw none of Kill’s “good brother” shebang in GOM.

Haters gonna hate but I unapologetically love Gareth Carson and Kayden Lockwood!! I always will!!

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I’m sorry but if you think KTV was hard to swallow and you're clutching your pearls, you are not going to survive the other dark mm romance I read.

KTV is tame compared to that.

Also, FUCK YOU ALL for hating Gareth and suddenly riding into the dawn for Killian (who was hated until two days ago). Your first mistake was thinking Gareth was going to be like Brandon or that Gaz & Kill are going to be like Lan & Bran.

Lan and Bran are dark and light whereas Gaz and Kill are both dark but they still belong to each other and will kill for each other. That’s that. Get that through your thick skull.

You are mad at Gaz unknowingly creating distance between Kill and Asher but forget Kill actually smiled when he saw a rabid dog bite Gaz. Forgot that? Hmm. Or when Gaz was his punching bag for years (mind, Gaz could very well hit him back but he never did).

Kill seems like a good brother only through Gaz’s perspective and due to Glyn’s influence. We saw none of Kill’s “good brother” shebang in GOM.

Haters gonna hate but I unapologetically love Gareth Carson and Kayden Lockwood!! I always will!!