Yeah but this amnesia plot is way different. In most amnesia tropes it’s just a bit of confusion, but the person is still mostly aware and themself. In this case Yan got amnesia and mentally regressed to a child, prompting ml to use the opportunity to rewrite history and raise/groom him into a relationship/marking/children even when he knows that’s not what the actual Yan wants. It’s very gross and really shows that ml was more focused on capitalizing on the injuries he caused than legitimately helping Yan recover.
If I had an abusive ex who caused me to be crippled and lose my memories (much less my mental capacity) and I woke up to find out they used it as a chance to trap my into marriage or kids I would be horrified and disgusted. It’s even worse in this universe because marking is permanent
for the love of god montressor
irl moral biases superimposed upon fiction =/= basic understanding of literary devices.
i'm sure you meant well but... this is not a call for ethics in fiction. this is a desperate plea for fellow readers to learn simple literary devices and how it spoon feeds us tropes and archetypes so we can improve piss poor reading comprehension.
which sadly seems futile given this response :') farewell, this is it for me.
like i'm not saying it makes the plot good or unique in any way nor does it make the ML less shitty... it's still pretty meh and i'm 100% expecting the 'redemption' arc to be unsatisfying as hell. but amnesia arcs in BL are as old as time; there's always a pattern and it's the prologue for the groveling arc once MC recovers his memories 90% of the time. there's even several extremely obvious context clues that MC is starting to recall his memories.
despite that i see a lot of comments that gripe as if amnesiac bottom is endgame and they'll ride off into the sunset with this huge glaring plot point uncovered, the end. i can't tell if it's just really young readers or this is, idk, their first time reading BL manhua or encountering this trope in ANY book ever... but i worry for the declining reading comprehension and context analysis here.