Oh they do have many awww(imo) moments. Ch. 83 for example. But Caesar here is.... Emotionally quite far removed from other human beings due to his shitty upbringing. A bit similar to Ilay but I'd say his is worse. Ilay has a 'normal' human family afaik from the manhwa version. Just Ilay himself is abnormal. Caesar doesn't and could've been normal child otherwise, I feel. (Would be spoilers ro say more than this.) Ah, but they share their monstrous strength and "stamina" though. But my impressions on them could be wrong tho. My memory isn't perfect. I guess you should continue reading...
They have minimal cute moments but they're usually overshadowed by the disgusting shit ML pulls. Just like the recent chapter, the cute stuff comes after his shitty actions so the author can go ''look guys!! they're cute!! it's not rape and MC isn't traumatized!!!''
MC just learns to live with it because if he has his own opinions or goals, he'll get raped until he can't and if he runs away he'll get shot AND raped.
I’ve read those comments where he shot and raped him and that’s why I’m genuinely curious about their “cute” or romantic moments because like I mentioned, I’ve read those other novels and I can’t imagine either Ilay or Zhenya doing something like that to their love interests once they became a couple (all the ugly shit they did was before they realized their feelings). It seems that Ceasar did all this after they were in an established relationship and already “in love”?
Yeah ML does pretty much hurt and rape MC whenever he behaves in a way that he doesn't like and MC never gets a proper conclusion or revenge, it just gets swept under the rug and gets forgiven because consequences? who that?
The cute moments are just ML treating MC like a normal human being or spending some dollars on him.
He does want to get married but he drugs and rapes MC for however long because MC had past lovers.
He loves MC but he has no problem using him as a pawn or letting others hurt him if it benefits him at the end.
He loves him death and slits his own throat to show his ''regret'' but it's more of a manipulation tactic like ''I hurt myself for you, don't you feel bad for me? don't you pity me?''
Ofc all of this gets forgiven and erased because ''ML is sooo tragic guysss he's sooo sad he was never taught loveeeee'' even though he's a grown ass man who knows what he's doing is bad.
I’m not $hitting on this story, I haven’t read enough to form a proper opinion, but I do like reading the comments so i have an educated guess of the dynamics and I’ve read some of the unhinged things Ceasar has done to Lee Won. I also remember him being compared to Ilay and Zhenya. I’ve read those novels (Passion and Codename Anastasia) and yes, those 2 also did their share of awful things, but eventually they became cute couples with their respective love interests and Zhenya more so than Ilay really softened up in regards to his love interest. It is very explicitly stated in the novels that he never wants to hurt Taekjoo recklessly again. Ilay isn’t so explicit, but once he figured out his feelings, he didn’t go purposely hurting Tae-eui. Just by reading people’s comments, I can’t see this couple having any cute moments. Do they get any true romantic moments?
I’m seriously curious because he was being compared to those other 2 characters and those other 2 do have some really “awwww” moments.