YOOO UNRELEASE THIS SHIT

Do you really know what normalize is or is just a new word for you? Exploring dark themes is part of literature since always.
Everyone here with half a brain can get that what Narye is doing is horrifying, there's no trace of any comments saying "this is the type of love I want" or "this is what love should look like" since the first chapters you knew this was a traumatic story. You can be uncomfortable with what you're reading, that's good but you don't need a big moral uproar to feel better. This is just fiction.

Damn you're brutal

Don't like don't read. I find this story very interesting. Not just from the point of view that it takes but also from the POV of how readers react to the characters. Nobody thinks what Narye is doing is remotely ok. Nobody thinks the PTSD that Seoyo has is something he should continue to live with. Nobody wants Seoyo to end up trapped again in the present as he was in his former life - but unless we know what Seoyo went through we cannot completely understand his state of mind and the extent of his trauma.Not all stories are rainbow and sunshine. Not all stories have happy endings. Not all stories are about love, some are about abuse. The fact that the author writes Narye's dialogue in red to emphasise its violence is indication that even the author doesn't think what Narye is doing is ok. We cannot jump to conclusions that this is romanticizing an abusive relationship when it hasn't ended, because as of now, it is not romanticizing that. It is showing how Narye was violent and horrible to the point that Seoyo ended his life because he was haunted by Narye's actions and wanted peace. I don't see that as romanticizing the relationship... but maybe I am wrong. The whole series isn't out on this platform so IDK.

(This reply is to the other person aswell) By normalizing, I mean all of the stories with rapist semes in the yaoi pile don't pretend you don't see those yaoi stories from 10 years ago and it still hasn't imrpoved now, of course no comments are posting how they're in support of that- I'm not blind. Sometimes authors like to put in these scenes just for the audience to feel bad about the main character but never touch up on it again. But the BL genre has always been implementing these traumatic pasts and experiences just to give no form of any payback or karma to the abuser and sometimes the victim even ends up with the abuser. Obviously it's a problem FICTIONALLY, it's obviously fiction but can you also say that to racism online or lolicon shit? Literature can influence the media, that's why jinx and painter of the night are so popular despite having dogshit ass love interests. This is my base of the problem as for this story, as for what I have seen this is just copy paste from what the other toxic manhwas have been doing because it is SOOO obvious that they're going to end up together, go read your dark genre or whatever but it's not for me. We have the comment section for a reason I'M EXPRESSING MY OPINION, so saying don't like don't read won't stop me from leaving a comment after dropping the first chapter lmao. I can see both of your perspectives but I can only see this manhwa in the negatives and that's only my opinion if you continue to read it, who's stopping you to see this shit through the end lol.

Your opinion was really well thought out and I agree the abuse was painted in a negative light but I'm only basing my conclusion at the cover art as both of them are in it and it was why I was drawn to it in the first place. It hasn't finished yet but I can see where it's going, I'd really like to be proven wrong and have the abuser end up in a ditch somewhere but I don't see it happening, for me.

True. It is very possible that Seoyo will get manipulated into being with Chahyeon and not even know he's being manipulated and will again be captive without knowing it. But that too is not romanticizing the relationship because everyone already knows its absolutely not ok and based on what I have seen so far and considering there are only 33 chapters I do not see chahyeon getting a redemption arc. So its probably one of those psychological thrillers where the bad guy wins. But that does happen in real life. that doesn't make it good or ok, but it definitely doesn't romanticise it either.