Can you elaborate your point? I want to read it
Me too
Basically there’s a pattern I noticed in a lot of BLs, that pattern being the rape/sa being out of character. Sometimes when the author can’t think of a good way to add conflict they just think it’s a good idea to add random sa. Usually in those cases the story can stay more or less the same if you remove it and since I’m reading on an illegal website anyway I chose to ignore it. An example of when the rape/sa isn’t in character and can be removed from the story is surprisingly in roses and champagne, in this case the rape was used as a very bad way to show Caesar’s desperation and need for love. Therefore it’s the author’s fault and not the character’s. There are still cases of it fully just being the ml being a shit person like zhenya in Codename Anastasia (that manhwa was absolute dog water I’m never going near it again)
Basically sometimes there are cases in which the author just sabotages their character’s development for drama and when that happens I just pretend like it isn’t part of the story
Or sometimes it’s just the author’s fetish
From what ik from novel readers your half right and the only grape is in the past life with ml's brother from then on its all about ml's redemption arc since in past life ml was a terrible person and that's why Mc has such a strong reaction to ml's brother so I do think it's for the plot this time
(SPOILERS) actually ido himself raped sejin as well. I agree that the brother thing is very much a part of the plot but ido also raping him is not and it’s just such a dumb way to add conflict. What I’m ignoring isn’t the brother’s rape but ido’s since it just doesn’t make sense
Oh I think ido tape was unnecessary honestly it would have been better if he was just upset or ask for divorce in past life
Ngl I think if the author wanted to present him as a bad person trying to be better then just harshness and being extremely cold to sejin would’ve done the trick. There are a few specific things he said during the rape as well but you can easily keep those without the rape itself. If it was just the divorce thing he wouldn’t be as bad a person, another alternative would be financially ruining sejin’s family.
It’s so rare to see a comment section (or wtv you call them here) actually have good opinions that are still different about a manhwa. Tbh I’m still very very split on ido, sejin freaking out rn is obviously a trauma response and ido being secretive isn’t helping at all. Personally I think the whole thing that happened in the past life is the author’s mistake and not the character’s (I can elaborate on this) but ido not communicating with sejin properly is like the one thing that’s holding me back from not disliking him anymore