It could be that he’s (uke) slowly sympathizing with the seme, starting to like him and stuff. It doesn’t have to mean that the person gets kidnap and they start to love their captor. I guess in this case it’s seme blackmailing uke and uke slowly liking his blackmailer. And I’m sure he’s slowly liking him (although he wouldn’t know it yet) because he starts to defend the seme’s actions with his friend, and he tried to appeal leniency to the seme in court( which means lessen sentence), and we can even see that in 10 years the uke still feel something about the seme like how he felt guilty and saying sorry to him when he was drugged/drunk
why tf is the title stockholm syndrome? we’ve experienced nothing like it so far so i can only assume that’s he’s probably going to get kidnapped or something soon. but that also doesn’t make much sense cause we’re already a season in. maybe the title is just off idk.
i also wanna make it clear i’m not trying to hate on or criticize the author or story i’m just asking cause i’m hella scared for what’s to come lmao. that rape scene gave me goosebumps and chills and i’m still shaking whew.