I agree with the romanticing rape I dont get it either but I feel like it wasnt really rape. She didnt seem that she was fighting it in the beginning, she was acting coy but shes seemed interested from how I read it. Only after when she meets him again shes all angry so I'm like 'huh why she mad, was it rape then?' I feel like the artist wasnt very clear on what happened there.
End of Chapter 9, during the flashback scene, we see the guy tearing the girls clothes off without permission and the girl yelling in surprise. In Chapter 10, the flashback scene continues, and the girl states: “Wait, I’m not ready...I can’t get away from him with my limited strength...He’s stimulated by the drug. He’s mighty” and then the scene blurs out to the next morning where she contemplated killing him. Like even if the girl found him handsome and talked about enjoying the kiss that scene was still clearly r*pe. She stated she wasn’t ready and wanted to get away from him, but was unable to because she wasn’t strong enough.
Well that's true.... I seen alot of rape in these types of webtoons it's like it's normal occurrence like a ritual for a manhua. But I feel like right in the beginning she knew he was drugged on aphrodisiac and u even saw his bulge (usually dont show it) lol she should know though that it's very dangerous even if she was a dr trying to help him. I'm not saying it was right and he had the right to but I feel like she kinda wasnt helping the situation at all.
“I feel like she kinda wasn’t helping the situation at all” is victim blaming rhetoric. At the time she believed she could counteract the aphrodisiac using acupuncture (she knew medicine) plus she needed money since she was running away from home. Not that it matters but that was the only reason she didn’t immediately leave/ignore him.
What’s with the romanticization of r*pe? Like when I first read that scene in the beginning I was like okay he r*ped her so why instead of hating him the first thing she did when she saw him again is blushing? And then later in the story we see the girl looking back at that encounter with the Third Prince with fondness??? Like that sends such a messed up image. I don’t get why the author didn’t just have the sex in the beginning be consensual, like our girl is from modern times a one night stand wouldn’t have been a big deal for her? If it did turn into a consensual one night stand the aphrodisiac would have needed to been taken out of the story though to have made it consensual for the guy. Also, throughout the rest of the story we see the guy constantly making sexual jokes towards her where she keeps stating that she is uncomfortable and he also keeps forcibly kissing her? To make matters worse I can’t even be mad at the guy for this because the girl keeps blushing and sending both readers and the guy universal signals that she’s into him? Wtf.....this isn’t how you write a woman character!!!!!