The kind of story you read ONCE. Once is definitely enough. The brutal rapes, abuse is insane.
I’m glad that the mc and the brother found peace together by the end, but for the first 30 chapters or so the older brother had me seething. You live everyday, hearing your little brother get brutalized, you can smell his flesh burning from your father torturing him. He was a traumatized young boy too, but as he got older, he still stayed a coward. It was insane.
That’s why it was so easy to feel like the neon red flag sign “love interest” was looking out for the mc in his own twisted way- you just felt like oh, ok, random rich druggie bought a rent boy to use him for power/ or something, help him kill his perfect older brother that let their father brutalized him daily.
Then the TWIST. The fucking twist. He raised so much hell, caused so much pain, but atleast it made the older brother grow a backbone. It sucks that such an irredeemable character was the key to ending the mc and older brother’s suffering.
It was disturbing and terrible that the older brother got drugged till his health suffered. Opium addiction is HELL, especially in that era. There’s so much literature romanticizing it, love how how the author firmly shows how it deeply affected people in the 19th century.
The brother suffering from that felt like the author’s way of exacting poetic justice in a way, I’m glad we find out later that his health is better, and the author really made it clear that he isn’t mad at the MC for his involvement in that. They both have hurt each other, and they’re both victims. Both chose to forgive one another, for things that many never could.
There are so many parts that is so difficult to read, the mc being raped by his father, the older brother being gang raped to induce trauma bonding by the fucking psychopath—- honestly all of that made me hate this, but I had to see it to the end, all that suffering can’t have been for nothing.
Anyway, interesting and hellish story, 8/10. If you can stomach it, you should finish the story too, then never pick it up again.
The kind of story you read ONCE. Once is definitely enough. The brutal rapes, abuse is insane.
I’m glad that the mc and the brother found peace together by the end, but for the first 30 chapters or so the older brother had me seething. You live everyday, hearing your little brother get brutalized, you can smell his flesh burning from your father torturing him. He was a traumatized young boy too, but as he got older, he still stayed a coward. It was insane.
That’s why it was so easy to feel like the neon red flag sign “love interest” was looking out for the mc in his own twisted way- you just felt like oh, ok, random rich druggie bought a rent boy to use him for power/ or something, help him kill his perfect older brother that let their father brutalized him daily.
Then the TWIST. The fucking twist. He raised so much hell, caused so much pain, but atleast it made the older brother grow a backbone. It sucks that such an irredeemable character was the key to ending the mc and older brother’s suffering.
It was disturbing and terrible that the older brother got drugged till his health suffered. Opium addiction is HELL, especially in that era. There’s so much literature romanticizing it, love how how the author firmly shows how it deeply affected people in the 19th century.
The brother suffering from that felt like the author’s way of exacting poetic justice in a way, I’m glad we find out later that his health is better, and the author really made it clear that he isn’t mad at the MC for his involvement in that. They both have hurt each other, and they’re both victims. Both chose to forgive one another, for things that many never could.
There are so many parts that is so difficult to read, the mc being raped by his father, the older brother being gang raped to induce trauma bonding by the fucking psychopath—- honestly all of that made me hate this, but I had to see it to the end, all that suffering can’t have been for nothing.
Anyway, interesting and hellish story, 8/10. If you can stomach it, you should finish the story too, then never pick it up again.