I know, it feels very cringe-y and dehumanizing.
However,I think the author is trying to go with the mentality of the times (medieval). During times of monarchs and nobility, they owned their servants too.
I think the author is using that, or it is lost in translation from Korean.
in that time servants were considered objects and not human being's so the author adapted that mentality to her work ig
Yeah but....this is a story ....a male lead should have this nobility or sense of justice to their character.....
But now a days authors as selling this cold-blooded handsome hunk with a tragic past who starts off treating the MC like trash....and ofc girls who fangirls over that.
Cause we're kinky little shits who want to get treated like trash....
Jokes ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ
The utter cringe I felt when he said "You belong to me"
What goes through these authors' heads