i started reading this bc the top comments made this seem like a masterpiece but then i started reading it and i am very confused. a rant.
very basically, if you haven’t read the story, if certain humans (aristocrats) are able to bind humans and make them their servants what power imbalance would come with that?
the plot is that mc is working for evil man, and evil man tells him to murder ml. but, to do so, evil man wipes mc’s memories so ml doesn’t know and so they are able to get closer to each other more effectively(?)
mc and ml actually know each other when ml used to work as a hunter, a few years ago. hunters are aristocrat people hunting other corrupted aristocrat people who have been poisoned, and mc was a victim in this case when he was a child. ml promises mc that he will come back (he never does). mc is orphaned and taken away by evil man.
ml proceeds to loses his entire family to the poison and becomes cold hearted against servants and humans bc they betrayed his trust (they fed his family the poison) so time passes till mc (with memories wiped from evil man) is brought to work under him.
yada yada they get close bc they work in the same building, mc keeps prying and prodding at ml, mc likes ml, gets close gets close, turns into ml’s personal sex slave, they get closer, introduced to side couple and some other guy, mc gets pushed into soooo much family drama it’s insane, they like each other, they try, TRY to confront evil man it doenst work, and they live happily ever after? The end???
one criticism I have off the bat about the world building is that we never know what the aristocrats really do? like why there’s so important in the first place. all we know is that they pay servants well, they age slower than humans, they’re considered almost like a ‘different race’ than humans, some of them have magic(??) and when they take a certain poison it corrupts them. WHICH we also don’t know much about??
there’s many things that don’t make sense with this because why are aristocrats so special? just bc they can put marks of ownership on humans?? like they never explain that, just that they’re “different” and that’s it.
i read everything really quickly, even skimmed a few of the early chapters because of how unbearable it was but then i shocked to see how close Kyon (mc) and Luc (ml) became???
at first i thought kyon (mc) was ur typical bottom who couldn’t do shit for himself and yeah, he was, but he was able to change Luc (ml) due to love and, wow, being a good boyfriend or smt. but he was legit so useless and only used as a device to make Luc’s character grow and become ‘more’ caring, especially towards humans and his servants or smt but WOW Luc didn’t grow he just loves kyon that’s it bro did not change at all. thru everything that happened in this story.
there’s a part in the story where Kyon knew Luc from the past? yeah they brought it up ONCE but there was never an issue of “i knew this guy in the past, when he was just a boy, it’s wrong to romance him” at all it was just “oh he’s sick and dying and mentally not okay bc of me oh woe is me” AND THATS IT never gets brought up again, i don’t think Luc even talks to Kyon about finally remembering that either??? like what’s the point then. just to show Kyon has interest in Luc first then Luc falling for him harder? please…
We meet other characters like Ryan, Sihan and Karis. but they’re all really really flawed and trope-y characters imo, heavy on the imo.
Sihan and Karis (the side couple) have an established relationship when we first meet them and they become important characters for Kyon and Luc’s growth.
Sihan doesn’t really grow much as a character he’s more like a plot device and helps Luc’s development, i mean he develops, but just a little bit. it’s super uninteresting bc u think for a guy in a relationship he would know to communicate bc that’s how Sihan and Karis’ relationship even started out but whatever. That was the whole issue that he relearns ig?? Communication with his partner???
Karis is also really a one off character as he’s a pretty big foil for Kyon telling him about the world of aristocrats and whatnot. his backstory with Sihan is interesting i guess because they developed and got together much differently than Kyon and Luc does. but like other than that it was hard to care for this side couple because they don’t really have their own character until way later when you genuinely don’t give a shit anymore and just want to finish the story already.
Ryan is such a weird character because even the author says the reader is supposed to feel differently about him throughout the story but in the end he was just some bastard who was doing shit for himself and trying to make it seem like it was for the better of everyone…when it wasn’t???
he went so fucking far to even manipulate Kyon to krill himself bc apparently “Luc would grow more distrustful of humans if he knew kyon was originally here to krill him” (bc kyon was manipulated by evil man) spoiler!!! he’s still fucking distrustful after ur long dead bitch???
Ryan seems like a good character but becomes a really big piece of shit for seemingly no reason other than to protect Luc but when it doesn’t work he doesn’t try to make things right and just kinda…dies?
did i mention Kyon and Ryan try to break into evil man’s house to understand why he’s after Luc but they never catch him. Like we see that guy ONCE but he doesn’t die, doesn’t pay for what he did NOTHING. like what was the whole point for then. to even introduce him as a antagonist when he’s seen once, motivations not explained and seemingly doesn’t have a purpose by the end of the story.
then Kyon and Luc get together but it’s not satisfying because the way they started to love each other was honestly unrealistic at best. Luc doesn’t do much for Kyon, doesn’t make him a better person or anything. kyon changes Luc but without Kyon near Luc. Luc turns back to the character we see at the beginning of the story so how has he really changed?
you could argue the ending was telling us, the readers, how he is in the progress of changing but nothing imo tells us he’s willing to change how he treats others compared to how he treats Kyon. Because there is an instance where he talks to his servants and humans again and treats them exactly how he did Kyon before they romantically get together. And even he tells Kyon he doesn’t give a shit about changing but yk the ever so sweet Kyon convinces Luc (and himself tbh) he will change Luc for the better.
There’s this one side character that is a servant for Ryan, bro tell me why this guy (I forgot his name so I’ll call him Guy) legit has no plot relevancy. He’s introduced as the only one to serve Ryan for so long but later it’s revealed HE’S the son of evil man sent to murder Ryan but Guy defies orders and continues to serve under Ryan. Guy likes Ryan, not very sure HOW but he likes him and Ryan sees Guy as a son. By the end of the story, Ryan kinda fucks off to go die alone ig and instead of telling Guy himself he’s gonna die. RYAN ASKS HIS BEST FRIEND TO WIPE ALL OF GUY’S MEMORIES OF HIM. Keep in mind, Guy’s been his only servant for the past idk 100 years or smt, it’s weird, and he throws all that connection and time they had together IN THE TRASH and wipes his memory and dies. Guy never knows this happens to him and it’s just kinda sad buy wtf was ur purpose in the story buddy idk. His connection to his dad doesn’t really get brought it maybe like once to get rid of the poisoning for this one aristocrat and that’s it.
Overall this story has WILD pacing, a lot of loose ends that don’t get tied up, at all and the characters are just really sad. Don’t read this, don’t even try, 1/10. One point bc I liked the art style by the end of the reading it.
i started reading this bc the top comments made this seem like a masterpiece but then i started reading it and i am very confused. a rant.
very basically, if you haven’t read the story, if certain humans (aristocrats) are able to bind humans and make them their servants what power imbalance would come with that?
the plot is that mc is working for evil man, and evil man tells him to murder ml. but, to do so, evil man wipes mc’s memories so ml doesn’t know and so they are able to get closer to each other more effectively(?)
mc and ml actually know each other when ml used to work as a hunter, a few years ago. hunters are aristocrat people hunting other corrupted aristocrat people who have been poisoned, and mc was a victim in this case when he was a child. ml promises mc that he will come back (he never does). mc is orphaned and taken away by evil man.
ml proceeds to loses his entire family to the poison and becomes cold hearted against servants and humans bc they betrayed his trust (they fed his family the poison) so time passes till mc (with memories wiped from evil man) is brought to work under him.
yada yada they get close bc they work in the same building, mc keeps prying and prodding at ml, mc likes ml, gets close gets close, turns into ml’s personal sex slave, they get closer, introduced to side couple and some other guy, mc gets pushed into soooo much family drama it’s insane, they like each other, they try, TRY to confront evil man it doenst work, and they live happily ever after? The end???
one criticism I have off the bat about the world building is that we never know what the aristocrats really do? like why there’s so important in the first place. all we know is that they pay servants well, they age slower than humans, they’re considered almost like a ‘different race’ than humans, some of them have magic(??) and when they take a certain poison it corrupts them. WHICH we also don’t know much about??
there’s many things that don’t make sense with this because why are aristocrats so special? just bc they can put marks of ownership on humans?? like they never explain that, just that they’re “different” and that’s it.
i read everything really quickly, even skimmed a few of the early chapters because of how unbearable it was but then i shocked to see how close Kyon (mc) and Luc (ml) became???
at first i thought kyon (mc) was ur typical bottom who couldn’t do shit for himself and yeah, he was, but he was able to change Luc (ml) due to love and, wow, being a good boyfriend or smt. but he was legit so useless and only used as a device to make Luc’s character grow and become ‘more’ caring, especially towards humans and his servants or smt but WOW Luc didn’t grow he just loves kyon that’s it bro did not change at all. thru everything that happened in this story.
there’s a part in the story where Kyon knew Luc from the past? yeah they brought it up ONCE but there was never an issue of “i knew this guy in the past, when he was just a boy, it’s wrong to romance him” at all it was just “oh he’s sick and dying and mentally not okay bc of me oh woe is me” AND THATS IT never gets brought up again, i don’t think Luc even talks to Kyon about finally remembering that either??? like what’s the point then. just to show Kyon has interest in Luc first then Luc falling for him harder? please…
We meet other characters like Ryan, Sihan and Karis. but they’re all really really flawed and trope-y characters imo, heavy on the imo.
Sihan and Karis (the side couple) have an established relationship when we first meet them and they become important characters for Kyon and Luc’s growth.
Sihan doesn’t really grow much as a character he’s more like a plot device and helps Luc’s development, i mean he develops, but just a little bit. it’s super uninteresting bc u think for a guy in a relationship he would know to communicate bc that’s how Sihan and Karis’ relationship even started out but whatever. That was the whole issue that he relearns ig?? Communication with his partner???
Karis is also really a one off character as he’s a pretty big foil for Kyon telling him about the world of aristocrats and whatnot. his backstory with Sihan is interesting i guess because they developed and got together much differently than Kyon and Luc does. but like other than that it was hard to care for this side couple because they don’t really have their own character until way later when you genuinely don’t give a shit anymore and just want to finish the story already.
Ryan is such a weird character because even the author says the reader is supposed to feel differently about him throughout the story but in the end he was just some bastard who was doing shit for himself and trying to make it seem like it was for the better of everyone…when it wasn’t???
he went so fucking far to even manipulate Kyon to krill himself bc apparently “Luc would grow more distrustful of humans if he knew kyon was originally here to krill him” (bc kyon was manipulated by evil man) spoiler!!! he’s still fucking distrustful after ur long dead bitch???
Ryan seems like a good character but becomes a really big piece of shit for seemingly no reason other than to protect Luc but when it doesn’t work he doesn’t try to make things right and just kinda…dies?
did i mention Kyon and Ryan try to break into evil man’s house to understand why he’s after Luc but they never catch him. Like we see that guy ONCE but he doesn’t die, doesn’t pay for what he did NOTHING. like what was the whole point for then. to even introduce him as a antagonist when he’s seen once, motivations not explained and seemingly doesn’t have a purpose by the end of the story.
then Kyon and Luc get together but it’s not satisfying because the way they started to love each other was honestly unrealistic at best. Luc doesn’t do much for Kyon, doesn’t make him a better person or anything. kyon changes Luc but without Kyon near Luc. Luc turns back to the character we see at the beginning of the story so how has he really changed?
you could argue the ending was telling us, the readers, how he is in the progress of changing but nothing imo tells us he’s willing to change how he treats others compared to how he treats Kyon. Because there is an instance where he talks to his servants and humans again and treats them exactly how he did Kyon before they romantically get together. And even he tells Kyon he doesn’t give a shit about changing but yk the ever so sweet Kyon convinces Luc (and himself tbh) he will change Luc for the better.
There’s this one side character that is a servant for Ryan, bro tell me why this guy (I forgot his name so I’ll call him Guy) legit has no plot relevancy. He’s introduced as the only one to serve Ryan for so long but later it’s revealed HE’S the son of evil man sent to murder Ryan but Guy defies orders and continues to serve under Ryan. Guy likes Ryan, not very sure HOW but he likes him and Ryan sees Guy as a son. By the end of the story, Ryan kinda fucks off to go die alone ig and instead of telling Guy himself he’s gonna die. RYAN ASKS HIS BEST FRIEND TO WIPE ALL OF GUY’S MEMORIES OF HIM. Keep in mind, Guy’s been his only servant for the past idk 100 years or smt, it’s weird, and he throws all that connection and time they had together IN THE TRASH and wipes his memory and dies. Guy never knows this happens to him and it’s just kinda sad buy wtf was ur purpose in the story buddy idk. His connection to his dad doesn’t really get brought it maybe like once to get rid of the poisoning for this one aristocrat and that’s it.
Overall this story has WILD pacing, a lot of loose ends that don’t get tied up, at all and the characters are just really sad. Don’t read this, don’t even try, 1/10. One point bc I liked the art style by the end of the reading it.