Hello everybody :) This is your regularly scheduled Lili, back from hiatus! In this post, I will first recap what has happened since the beginning of O Serpent Heart, then introduce a sneak peek of the next chapter!
In What It Is To Burn, we were introduced to Han Noona, an 18 year old high school graduate, big sister to Jisung and his best friend Lee Yongbok, 14. Her last summer before adulthood uncovered many secrets (her parents' past involvement with the Seo Family, a criminal organization; Changbin's father, the head of said Family, being released from prison; and the secret of Yongbok's paternity).
Despite the tumult, Noona and Yongbok developed a bond beyond siblings, and Part One ended with Noona going away to college.
O Serpent Heart:
Chapter One - September. College-bound, Noona moves into the Seo Family summer home; a huge house, several hours away, conveniently and suspiciously rent-free. The separation is very difficult for Bokkie and Noona. Unable to be with Yongbok for his fifteenth birthday, Noona promises a special video call instead.
Chapter Two - Lee Yongbok dreams of marriage. He suffers through high school, taking difficult classes to graduate sooner. Jisung and Minho are dating publicly. Changbin is increasingly busy with the Family business. Winter finds herself in a public school for the first time. Chan promises his producing skills to a Romeo and Juliet production, the last before he graduates. Hyunjin and Seungmin are acting weird. Noona’s sexy video call does not go as planned.
Chapter Three - October. Noona and Yongbok have morning visitors bearing information. An oblivious Yongbok discusses the reason he is called ‘Felix’ with his biological father, Seo Yongsun.
Chapter Four - ???
Chapter Five - Changbin’s uncle forces Noona to tour the murder tunnel underneath her house. Karina gets handsy. Yongbok’s mom Lina disappears. Captain Lee Jihoon reveals he has proof of Bokkie’s first night with Noona, but is keeping it to himself for now.
Chapter Six - Yongbok blames himself. A storm brings overwhelming feelings for our boy, who realizes he is completely alone for the first time in years. Noona calls, though.
Chapter Seven - Noona is coming home for Halloween, but gets stuck in traffic (probably I-30). Yongbok is nervous, wondering if things will be the same between them. They are. Also, Noona promises something new.
Chapter Eight - The friend group catches up over Mexican food before a Halloween party. Noona can’t keep her hands off Yongbok under the table. After an embarrassing situation leads to an honest conversation, Yongbok asks his Noona to skip the Halloween party. They decide to spend the night at Chan’s trailer instead.
Chapter Nine - After 150,000 words, Yongbok finally gets a blowjob.
Chapter Ten - Yongbok’s shadow appears. Noona almost takes it too far. Also, butt play for the first time?
Chapter Eleven - While patching Noona’s orgasm injury, Yongbok admits that he scares himself. Noona resolves not to rush him into anything he’s not ready for. Bruised, bitten, scratched and scraped, they go to sleep.
Chapter Twelve - November. Noona lies awake, feeling guilty. Seungmin arrives at the trailer after a fight at the Halloween party. He asks Noona uncomfortable questions about her relationship with Bokkie. Eventually, Seungmin admits he walked in on Hyunjin about to have sex with a man. When Seungmin knocked the man out, Hyunjin himself beat the shit out of Seungmin, who wandered to the trailer. In the middle of the drama, Noona decides to go back to bed.
Chapter Thirteen - Special Hyunjin Chapter. Kim Seungmin is a fucking psychopath. Hyunjin, covered in blood, recalls his last sexual encounter with his stepbrother. When he decides to leave the party (and never speak to Kim Seungmin again), he makes a surprising new friend.
Chapter Fourteen - Back at the trailer, Seungmin breaks down. Chan comes looking for him. The man he hurt is rich and his family wants Seungmin’s head. With a phone call from Changbin’s Uncle Yunho, it is decided to relocate the entire group to the Seo-owned nightclub, the Church.
Chapter Fifteen - On the way to the Church, Yongbok begs to do more butt stuff. Noona considers.
Chapter Sixteen - Captain Lee Jihoon surprises Yongbok for a second time. Noona is prepared to fistfight a cop. It is discovered the Hyunjin’s mother has been working for the Seo’s for some time. As a favor, Seungmin will go into hiding with a Seo Family member. Yongsun steps in and demonstrates his power to a grateful Yongbok.
Chapter Seventeen - Noona gives Yongbok head in the car before going home to yell at her parents. Yongbok is visited by Han Peter for a chat.
Chapter Eighteen - Yongbok spends a day with the people he loves most. Noona’s Dad begs his wife to visit the Seo residence for a cookout - he is eager to spend time with his old friends again. Regina concedes, and Noona sends Yongbok to take a shower.
Chapter Nineteen - ???
Chapter Twenty - The Seo mansion is packed with people; Family, Dad says. Karina pulls an injured Noona through a quick tour of the house to her impressive bedroom. Karina’s bodyguard Jackson makes an appearance. Changbin shows up to the barbecue looking very tired. Noona promises a wild night.
Chapter Twenty One - Sneak Peek
In this chapter, Changbin tries to stay engaged with his party guests - but he keeps slipping into unpleasant memories.
“...and so he’ll be out in a year. Tops.”
Police Captain Lee Jihoon struts around my Uncle’s office like a preening cock. He’s come to the Church to tell us that he, with his almighty power and silver-tongued persuasion, has devised a plan to release my Pops from the pen. It doesn’t make sense to me - he’s the prick that put him there in the first place –
“You’re really going to do this?” Uncle Yunho asks, his face a blank, bored mask during the presentation. “You’re ‘the man that slayed the Dragon’. If Yongsun’s conviction is overturned, what does that mean for you?”
Jihoon leans over the edge of the heavy oak desk, an icy sparkle in his blue eyes. I think he looks like Satan himself, Hitler’s Lebensborn down to the blond buzzcut. In any other setting, Felix’s father would be terrifying - an immovable, immutable authority, probably why he’s been so successful as a fucking pig - but in here, he’s nothing, nobody. I love to see it.
His nearly six-foot frame is dwarfed by present company - the Bull, even when seated, towers over Jihoon’s pretentious ass. The Captain cocks his head to the side without looking at me. “You sure you want to talk about this in front of the kid?”
Maybe he can feel the needles I’m sliding into his eyeballs in my mind. Being in the same room with this man makes me intensely angry. I sit silently on the couch in the corner, a witness to a conversation and nothing more, at my Uncle’s instruction.
“Do you think he’d be in the room if I didn’t?” Uncle Yunho is not someone most people will allow within arm’s reach of their necks. I can’t help but be a little impressed at Jihoon purposefully keeping his jugular so close to a fist as big as his head, considering he’s the reason our lives went to hell. Yunho gently places his cigar-bearing hand on Jihoon’s police badge, ashes falling on the shiny metal of his name plate, and flicks it with his fingernail. “Don’t waste my time with stupid questions, Captain.”
The title is verbally sour; I can feel the disgust expressed from Yunho’s tongue. My Uncle leans back in his massive office chair, obscuring his face in the cigar smoke permeating the air. Lee Jihoon frowns as he brushes the debris from his navy lapel, smudging gray streaks around the badge.
“Kids are stupid and weak, Bull,” the Captain responds calmly, as if he was never touched. “You know how easy it is to get information out of them.” He gathers his keys and gun (magazine cleared) from the desk, preparing to leave for a press conference or something. “Just keep your end of the deal, Seo. And Changbin… don’t slip up. I’ll know if you tell your friends -
my son can’t keep a secret to save his fuckin’ life.”
