Did Nakyum's mouth get sewn shut? Did his brain turn to mush from the hate sex? Why the fu...

jinhwan (the dude who had hired someone to murder namkyun) had told him that if he told anyone what happened, he would make sure to kill namkyun. obviously namkyun just suffered through a v traumatic experience, he’s not going to think straight, especially after a death threat from his kidnapper :/

From a plot perspective:
This is getting repetitive. Nakyum suffers, sex happens, some relationship progress happens, only for it all to be reversed and you repeat the cycle again. There’s no satisfying end, no break to the rollercoaster, and if you couldn’t tell from the amount of readers complaining, they’re getting sick and tired of the same thing happening over and over again.

From inside the story perspective: Seungho can’t protect Nakyum? He’s one of the powerfulest people in the place, and he literally owns Nakyum. I’m frustrated because instead of responding or thinking over his actions, Nakyum is just always goddamn reacting. He’s not growing as a character from all this abuse, he’s just a shriveled up flower that just takes everything. It’s frustrating when you expect a character to grow from their trauma (Nakyum being sold as basically a sex slave as a favor for his old lover, Nakyum being raped multiple times, Nakyum being degraded and humiliated for basically the entire story) but instead he’s still the same old static character that’s ‘beautiful but weak and naive’.

Maybe I’m expecting too much from this story.

Lol I felt that last part to my core I wonder how the author will turn this story around or is she just going to let him stay "beautiful but weak and naive"?

i completely understand your frustration, but i’m also wondering what you expected from a story like this?

as you said, seungho owns namkyun. as you also mentioned, he is very powerful. there is a very skewed power balance between the two of them. seungho does not see namkyun as a person, he sees him as property, and because of his status, because of his physical strength, because of his wealth, he is pretty much able to do whatever he wants with namkyun, leaving namkyun unable to resist. that’s just how things are. it’s unrealistic to expect namkyun to know what to do in his situation. there are abuse victims in this day and age who never get out of their abusive relationship because they just don’t know how, and some are brainwashed to feel like escape is something entirely impossible. namkyun doesn’t feel like he can escape. he walks on eggshells. his continuous traumatic experience are teaching him to do nothing, because in the past when he has actually done something, he’s suffered greatly. it’s just not worth it to him.

also, in regards to seungho being able to protect him; the fact that namkyun was so easily kidnapped in the first place shows that he cannot. try putting yourself in namkyun’s position. he was kidnapped. two people attempted to murder him. the only reason he wasn’t murdered was not because they couldn’t kill him, but because they didn’t WANT to. he was let go, but under the threat that if he told anyone he would be killed. he was already kidnapped, and the only reason he wasn’t murdered was purely because jinhwan changed his mind in that moment, i imagine he’s thinking that there is absolutely nothing stopping him from actually following it out in the future. jinhwan already risked a lot by carrying out his plan to begin with, he really doesn’t have anything to lose by trying once again. he also has means to make sure that namkyun’s murder would never be traced back to him. it’s really not as simple as namkyun just refuses to speak, and that seungho could easily protect him.

this is a fucked up story. the characters are fucked, the plot is fucked.. everything is fucked. if you’re looking for a story where the underdog who was abused prevails and somehow comes out on top, you’re not gonna get that here. it’s just not realistic, especially for the time period.

I don’t think people understand this but. This is a fucking story, which means that we expect character growth and plot progression, and expect it in a timely manner. Otherwise people will rightfully be bored and frustrated and angry.

Do people in real life stay stuck in horrible situations and not learn from their experiences for years or if ever? Obviously yes. But that’s not the point. The point is that this is a STORY and we expect some progression in the story after goddamn 63 long chapters. We’re reading the same sex scene with slight variations in trauma over and over again, with minimal plot but maximal sex.

Nakyum is static as a character, forever the weak and naive beauty, never learning from his traumas or experiences or mistakes and forever being silenced or taken advantaged of. Does this happen in real life? Yes. Is Nakyum not a real life character but something we are consuming for entertainment? YES. So we expect growth and we expect plot and we expect it not to take forever and a year for both these things to happen.

People have the right it be pissed at this story.

(I appreciate your answer and the fact that you defended yourself. But it still doesn’t get to the core of why this chapter was so deeply unsatisfying)

Again, I completely understand your frustration. I was pissed reading this chapter as well. Things are not going at all how I had wanted, but I’ve come to accept that this is probably how things are going to be for awhile.

I understand that Namkyun is a character, and that readers are going to want him to grow throughout the story. I think that how Namkyun has acted is perfectly understandable, I think it’s realistic. That doesn’t mean it’s not irritating. I think the author is really going for a slow burn type story. I think I read somewhere that she likes seeing him suffer. I genuinely don’t see you getting the change you want anytime soon. At the moment, there really isn’t much Namkyun can do. Imo, how the story goes from here on out & how Namkyun grows as a character is going to rely heavily on Seungho & the side characters actions/thoughts. Hopefully in the next chapter Mr.Kim does something, because as things are now, Seungho is just going to stay the rage filled, emotionally constipated man that he is, and Namkyun is going to stay in this endless loop of abuse ://

I really do understand your frustration, reading the last few chapters has left me very upset & angry, but I’ve accepted the fact that this is just how the author intends for things to be. Accepted, but definitely not happy.