My journey through the novel

MangaSanctuary December 9, 2024 9:34 am

Generally I would avoid this kind of content, if it were your usual grape porn, though apparently this manhwa was a 'revenge bl' so I decided to continue reading and even get to chapter 5 of the novel.

For the moment it's difficult to know where this is going. For a revenge plot it's very focused on the smut side, even though aggravated. If not for the spoilers, we wouldn't know why the ml is doing all this ravage to mc and the reasons behind his violent actions. The narrator, exterior, just describes coldly and crudely the events as these show up, without any background or explanations that could help to understand better the situation. I think it'll be done much later, but this doesn't help to empathize with the characters. It's a litteraire choice though this could play against the authors as they could be blamed because of the frustration and lack of understanding from the readers. I think the artist does a good job to portray and retranscribe the novel, plus the art is superbe, but they could be blamed again because of their choice of work despite not being the author. The novels they chose to illustrate always contain heavy subjects.

About the plot:
As a victim of SA, gangrape, by numerous boys, the ml could just trap his abuser/s into gangrape by hired thugs as he's rich, and it'll be more fair compared to what's done to him, so why did he decide to rape mc himself?

How did he deal with the other abusers? Does he rape ml himself and sleeps with him only because this latter is... handsome? Or is it because mc was particularly cruel to him, did he decide to handle things in his own hands?
Technically, the text is well-written, so I hope everything will make sense, in the end, and it'll avoid the grotesque clichés we're used to in this genre. But if it does, it will not be a surprise and it'll just reveal to be a waste of time.

Maybe such fiction was necessary, as we're tired of seeing victims of such crime never get real justice, so for once it's a change to see a victim gets back to their abuser/s... But here, the ex-victim now perpetrator, seems to take too much pleasure in taking revenge. He seems void of humanity and it'll be interesting to know why, how, he gets to this point (his real motives); like did the bullies messed with the wrong guy, is he really crazy, or does he intend to get at them ten fold what he (they?) did to him? I hope these questions will find their answers as we advance in the lecture and that this bl has more to offer than what we can see for the moment.

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