Wtf

To be fair this author seems to write these kinds of tropes in all their works (Private Scandal, Obedient Heritage...), like physically/sexually/mentally abused bottom + morally gray top, so you can't really expect something different

isn’t the ml in private scandal a green flag though?

Yeah, I didn't mean they are "red flags", I meant they're morally gray not towards the MC but with their means of getting things done and their objectives

Same artist, different author.

But the ML in this one isn't a red flag?
The circumstances are just a bit complicated is all.