this is what someone said on the main page so I'm just going off of this comment but I have no idea if it's true or not:
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seme is psychopath have no empathy love makes fun of uke love to see uke in pain, he wanted to see uke pridless and beg for him he sees uke as toy he always wanted to make uke his concubine uke who didn't wanted to live mother's life denied seme offer lots of time they didn't have sex during their fake lover contract till 2 vol cuz seme sleeps around with young boys and prefer man and uke gotten used to it he only spend afternoon in seme's room playing cards with him and seme left biting marks just to show they had sex but uke fall for seme cuz seme gotten close with other women one woman who is pestering seme to make him his fiance is also clever she actually pities uke that seme made him prideless man and weak so she try to have sarcastic convo with seme ane seme thought she would be perfect marriage partner, he had thought before letting him go he would just kill him so he won't nowhere alive seme also promised that he won't get married to friend's lover, seme thought uke likes his friend, so seme threatened uke that he won't kill friend so have sex with me uke accepted offer to save his friend,seme didn't send uke to imperial concubine palace but to Northern palace where no one would be uke would just wait for him ,will make uke run away that would make seme realise he actually loves uke not as toy but as a person but uke would return to seme ending is not bad or good could be bittersweet, all these fucked up shit would happen after 4 years from now on means seme would be adult a 18 year old and it's not pedo seme was the one who made first move on uke by blackmailing and making him into begging to have sex with him.
Luce is so beautiful and deserves the world but someone said the original novel has a ton of r@pe, imprisonment, etc??? can anyone confirm?? I don't wanna get invested if that's the way it goes because I'm so fucking over black flag redemption stories