Dogblooded novel but oddly gave me feels in some parts

Anberlin January 18, 2024 8:28 am

I already knew the spoilers and went to read it anyway. The novel is longer and gives more context into their thoughts so it does not feel as rushed, though their relationship does start out toxic (but I can read this kinda shit).
Anyway, <SPOILERS> for all its dogblood moments, it has a morbid appeal cause it's so damn rare to find one where the MC goes from being a top to a bottom (yea I wish it weren't from rape too).
But what really caught me offguard was how it oddly gave me knives in two non-romantic instances. When the MC is scammed of his company's shares and is forced to give it up to his brother by his father, he tells his father he's willing to on one condition that they all move out of the house. Cause his mother had suffered enough losing her husband to a mistress and then losing her life and he doesn't want to lose the room she brought him up in to the mistress and his brother any longer cause they disgust him too much after what happened.
Another is after his psycho brother rapes him, and he just goes off alone leaving the ML and his bro behind. He reaches one of his friend/fling's houses but no one is at home. It's new year's eve and he just gives up and goes to sleep, when someone rings the doorbell and calls him 'brother'. He's on edge cause of the rape but of all people it turns out to be his cousin returned from the military, who thanks him for sending him there for it made him a better person.
I don't know why but these 2 scenes just stuck with me. Like finding something surprisingly emotional and non-dogblooded in a story that's clichéd and toxic yet a guilty pleasure.
Also, author is the same one who wrote Wu Chang Jie, I'm dead.

Responses
    gily January 26, 2024 6:55 pm

    Ok, but does the MC end up living a happy life… or.. not, like what happens to him after the cousin returns, like does he work hard to make another business, since he did work really hard in his father’s business, to, like, make his father’s business go broke. Also, what happened to the MC’s brother, does he do a good job in the company, or does he fail.(like he should, he’s shit 凸) And what happens to the ML does he still love, or like , the MC, does he go back to the MC, or does he end up being with someone else?

    Sorry, that this is so long, but this are questions that are keeping me up at night.
    ( ̄∇ ̄")

    HyeHye January 26, 2024 7:30 pm

    Spoiler alert

    It has happy ending. MC ends up with ML . I don’t know what you mean by the cousin returned but his cousin came to visit him when he’s in kinda low mental stage after being r worded by his half-brother, and he also lost his company to his half-brother. So his cousin come as a visit and cheer up a bit. And his company is not related to his father (but his relatives including his father have shares in his company). His father has his own company as mentioned in novel which is not related to his current company. He built this company by himself at age 21 or 22 (don’t remember exactly) but their relatives did depend on this company as part of their earnings. Regarding whether he performed well or not is unsure but MC did bring most of hid executive levels employees from his old companies with him as these are his people kinda and they question the capabilities of hal-bro who is now known for back stabbing nature so they quit from the old company and follow MC. ML realized he did like him only after he had completely left him and he chased him back by any means lol~ that’s ittt

    gily January 29, 2024 1:58 pm
    Spoiler alert It has happy ending. MC ends up with ML . I don’t know what you mean by the cousin returned but his cousin came to visit him when he’s in kinda low mental stage after being r worded by his hal... HyeHye

    Thank you ♡