Sehun lived through two timelines. In the first, he was a simple paladin in training, from a low-key noble house, before his life took a turn and found himself as one of the emperor's concubines. The same emperor that found his way into Sehun's heart, only to be brutality and unjustifiably killed by his hand. The heavens took pity on him and gave him a second chance. In the second timeline... Well he's trying to escape and prevent history from repeating itself, by keeping as f

Tired of watching noble Jongin pine for absent-minded inventor Kyungsoo, Sehun forms a conspiracy with the goal to end his suffering...and bring those two idiots together.

Children are far more complicated than wires and gears.   so this is an adaptation of clockwork fagin, by cory doctorow. i'm sorry (kinda)