Suddenly, various people who are connected or involved with WonPil and his family get dragged inside something that would appear like a Vision, at a first glance.

The characters find themselves in a room of the House of Owl, with everything seemingly regular. But as they will leave Shiinden, they will find out that things are quite off.

For now, they are just there. In the room where the Book of IFs is. The book itself is shining of a bright, yellow light and it's pages are illegible.

As usual, on this particular day of the month, he feels overwhelmingly down. No matter how many years passed or how bad be tries to ignore, it's as if that number tormented him all the time.
And going to North Korea, even if for just that brief time, brought back so many negative memories that right now he'd only feel like to drown himself in alcohol for the rest of the night. He can't, though.

He should go home, it's late, it's dark and it's cold, but he needs some time to clear his mind, before he'll be able to wear a fake smile and return to his children. ZhuShen was surprisingly helpful, since he is really good at taking care of the babies.
He is wandering in the street of Shiirhuang, all alone, after returning from the Unseelie Court.

It's a rescue mission, so they have to do everything well. They have to plan everything in the tiniest detail and… make the kind of mess faeries will never forget for the rest of the eternity.
Since he has some supplies left in a hideout in North Korea, they head to Earth from there. He hurries to steal a car, one that will work for their noble purpose, while the others gather Kalashnikovs, grenades and handguns. Sadly he brought the assault rifle to South Korea and it's still buried in the garden of Ri's house.

When everything is ready, SangPil leads them to a passage to access the Unseelie Court and they rush in with the car, crazy trash music at max volume and making so much noise that they are mistaken for the Knights of the Apocalypse.
They have to use some powers and tricks, but eventually manage to track down where SangPil's kids are.

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When they arrive in front of the kids, the car looks like it fought a T-Rex and made its way out of Jurassic Park after the dinosaurs broke free. Or like Weasleys's car after being caresses by the punching tree.

After almost 10 days, of crying non-stop while unconscious, occasional nightmares and fever outbreaks, he finally wakes up to the even crueler real world.

Mochi is still next to him, as he literally never stepped outside that room once in all those days. He only ate and drank because Jackil and Lani brought supplies to him and he mostly slept on the floor and on the chair.
HaoLin too barely left, sleeping next to WonPil every night, but in his case, the adults had the authority to force him to go out and live.
The surgery on the smallest twin went well and she naturally survived, beyond the odds, although she might be chronically ill.

Another strange mystery is that Elton kept literally "appearing" on WonPil's chest. Eerily, nobody ever saw it happen and can tell how it happened, but every time Mochi fell asleep, he woke up to the baby being there.

When WonPil wakes up, though, Elton is in his cradle, making the usual fierce fuss for not being on WonPil. He only shut up when Mochi would be about to collapse asleep, so that he wouldn't wake him up.
He stands up from the bed and, attracted by the screams, immediately approaches the cradles with the babies. He is naturally not sure if they are all his, even.

Third day, the work in the new house proceeds well. One thing he wanted at all costs was a proper hydraulic system which, for Xuanghen standards, it's a luxury only very rich people can afford, and now it has it. A little above his budget, but he decided that this house must be perfect and have everything, to the cost of getting indebted for all the rest of his life.
For now, he just sold the very few valuable items he still possessed, that he kept that long only because he likes them, for the symbolic value they had for him. That got him enough money to buy materials and some furniture he couldn't just craft. He didn't want to ask more money to WuXin, since he has already leant him that little fortune to buy the house right away.

He is working whole day, every day, without rest. Even when all the helpers from Ming clan return to Shiinden to rest, in the evening, he still stays there to do more, till late night.
And tonight it's not different. He stays to work on one of the terraces until, half frozen and totally exhausted, he is forced to stop.
Since the hydraulic system is already functioning, he decides to wash himself in what will, in a few days of work, be an actual shower in a bathtub, a bit in a northern style, but smaller than average.

While being under the hot water, his mind keeps wandering, on its own, and always in the same direction: Mochi.
'He is rather cute, it's strange that others treat him like that.'
'My family seems to like him a lot, maybe ZhuShen has a thing for him.'
'He is really handsome… if he was in South Korea he would be an idol for sure.'
'Those lips…’
In truth, he has been kind of haunted by thoughts about him for the whole day, the past couple of days. He often caught himself staring at him, getting distracted and having those useless thoughts about him. Which is already weird enough, in his opinion. There is something that makes him attracted to that nimox, in a way that he had not felt in a very long time.

He walks out the bathroom in clean clothes, as he brought his bag with stuff there already, and hair still wet. Everyone else should have left the house hours ago, but as he gets closer to the end of the corridor, he hears some light, repetitive sounds from the living room area.
He stops by the entrance of the house and looks in the direction the sound comes from, freezing entirely at the sight of Mochi, still there, refining the frame of a window.
What really shocks WonPil, at that point, is that… he got hard. Just like that. Something that literally didn't happen since the first weeks with TiHao, when he had not much control over it. It's as if he suddenly entered puberty again and that the source of it was that nimox.

What makes it even more strange is that ever since he got tortured, years before, he lost his sexual desire. He still had sex with TiHao, to make him happy, but he didn't have the usual desire for it. And he also had serious impotence issues, that he tried to hide by always wanting to do it belly-down and refusing any kind of BJ or HJ.
In the past five years, his desire never awakened and he never felt the need to do it, not even to just touch himself from time to time. The only occasion in which he felt something was with Song, that night, when WonZi gave them the drink, but it wasn't as strong as it is right now.

WonPil remains motionless, staring at Mochi from the distance. He feels so lost, like he was drunk.
A few moments after, he starts approaching, with his heart beating like crazy, so much he almost struggles to breathe.
He stops when he is just a few centimetres from the other, whom finally seems to notice him. As soon as Mochi turns around, WonPil grabs his left wrist. All he can think about is how much he wants to lie with him, he doesn't even know or care how, he just wants it, desperately.
He throws his body on his and starts to kiss him, very passionately. It all almost feels like a dream, as if it was his body but he wasn't in control of it.

And the unthinkable actually happens.

In the end, WonPil steps back, panting. He cried half of the time and didn't last too long. After so many years of abstinence, his performance was even too dignified, especially considering that it was his very first time as top with a man. It was like having a second first time, and in a way it was really satisfying, but something, or everything, was off and it made him an emotional mess.
Especially the fact that Mochi was… totally weird. He didn't move nor make a single sound. But he neither opposed, fought or said something to stop him. And it all leaves WonPil with a bunch of worries. Did he just abuse that guy?

WonPil ends up bursting in tears again, a moment after. He approaches Mochi and hugs him, starting with an endless chant of apologies.
He isn't the type for one night stands or to go bed with the first guy he finds attractive and what he did makes him so confused and sick. It wasn't natural, Mochi really has something on him that caused all that.