Dude

If there really are two versions, one hardcore and the other somewhat mellowed then I don’t understand that how a sex machine will help someone cope with loneliness and self harm. Like how the fuck? Where’s the damn logic? Did you read with google translate? Or is it legit?

I read it on the official site. Paid money for it and everything. Idk, it would probably sound more credible on my end if someone could corroborate it but the gist of the story is that Jiwook develops extreme separation anxiety and starts obsessively self-harming so that Jooyeon will worry about him. And he keeps having auditory hallucinations that can only be remedied with medication, but he keeps getting tempted to stop using it so that Jooyeon will get angry. So Jooyeon concludes the way to fix the problem is to calm him down with sex, and he buys a fucking machine (I know, the logic is not in the room with us rn) and after using it to overstimulate Jiwook until he passes out, Jooyeon concludes that they’ve found a solution that benefits both of them. I was like ok. sure. BL logic or whatever. It’s explained by saying Jiwook can no longer be satisfied with regular sex but it made me chuckle to think that severe mental illness can be fought with dildos.

OMG it corroborates so much with the dog storyline. In the other version, Jooyeon brings a dog for Jiwook to help him calm down. Then he watches the surveillance video of Jiwook using the dog to lick his hole while masturbating when he is alone at home and Jooyeon confronts him about it. In his inner monologue, he is not angry but rather he is happy that he’s found something that can satisfy both him and Jiwook. He makes jiwook understand through beastiality scene that his body now wants degrading sex and stimulation.

I believe that is why there are contradictory reviews, with people saying there is dog scene and some saying there is not. I think author might have changed it after the backlash or Boomtoon has a restriction for some certain topics so the author had to create two versions for this particular plot.

Geez how fucked up that they still opted to created a more fucked up version. And for whom? More deranged people? Disgusting.

So the whole plot is exactly the same, hallucinations, trying self harm and suicide attempts to see Jiwook shaken and worrying about him, the medicines, and then finally dog but in this version it’s a sex machine.

There's likely two versions and I'm inclined to believe that the original one is the one with the dog. The spoiler-filled review from 2023 talked about it, I tried to dig it up on Twitter and while there were no explicit mentions the two fans who actually kept up with the novel as it was being updated tweeted a dog GIF after the side story released and they also talked about a dog after. The raws someone posted here had it in side story 2, and in the free raws site, a user talked about a dog scene.

I'm assuming that the current or revised version is the one with the machine. The user in the free raws site ended up clarifying things with another user that "I just saw it, it was originally in the side story but it was edited" regarding the dog scene. I just had no idea what the hell replaced the dog because no one talked about it so this all checks out. I got no idea if the version sold on Ridi was edited but I guess this confirms that the one sold on Bomtoon was. There was a notice back then stating which chapters were edited but it didn't seem to have side story 2 in it which made me extremely wary but I guess it really was edited.

At the very least, readers probably won't witness that insanity in manhwa form since I'm assuming the adaptation will follow the revised version with the machine instead. Still gives me the ick despite the revision though if only because the original one is so fucked up.

This also makes me believe that the author just took a premise of sexual assault revenge to fulfil a torture porn plot for the culprit with various degrees of depravity and humiliation. I actually applaud the korean netizens who boycotted this work since it actually resembles the nth room case.

This novel had no depth portraying the trauma of victims rather it just served as a convenient tool to depict such disgusting acts that it is horrifying. I personally believe that psychological novels are not bad. They are just another type of media that has a certain audience. But this is not psychological. It’s something I wish never existed.

LMFAOOOOOOOOO honestly I doubt it was changed because of the controversy. Bomtoon is still hard endorsing the series and it's doing pretty well for a new release. I think the revision was made because someone on the adaptation team was like "woah, too much cringe, I can handle all the other fucked up stuff but not the dog stuff." which is also super funny. The standards for content is beyond my mortal imagination.

Honestly, I don't blame the adaptation team because the dog stuff was truly too much. I get them. Everything happening before that was all within the yaoi wheelhouse so no surprises or anything. Not being able to stomach all that after reading that summary and knowing about Sabeau BL is lmao. The surprise dog, however...

Violence is fine, that happens even in mainstream manga. Rape and gangrape are in every other yaoi comic so that's also whatever. Same goes for confinement, kidnapping and blackmail. Hell even gore can be passable. Bestiality though?? Uhh, insta drop I fear. The dog stuff is so unusual and too fucked up especially when you have pets so I get them. Something something I can excuse violence but I draw the line at animal cruelty something something.

I recall bomtoon said they'll change a few stuff because of koreans hating it

guess my reaction after reading this whole conversation like what the fuck is this shit

Your 100% right. This author tends to write asshole-type characters then has the sadistic seme "put them in their place" by blackmailing and r*ping them. Like, that's their whole shtick