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I already knew the spoilers and went to read it anyway. The novel is longer and gives more context into their thoughts so it does not feel as rushed, though their relationship does start out toxic (but I can read this kinda shit).
Anyway, <SPOILERS> for all its dogblood moments, it has a morbid appeal cause it's so damn rare to find one where the MC goes from being a top to a bottom (yea I wish it weren't from rape too).
But what really caught me offguard was how it oddly gave me knives in two non-romantic instances. When the MC is scammed of his company's shares and is forced to give it up to his brother by his father, he tells his father he's willing to on one condition that they all move out of the house. Cause his mother had suffered enough losing her husband to a mistress and then losing her life and he doesn't want to lose the room she brought him up in to the mistress and his brother any longer cause they disgust him too much after what happened.
Another is after his psycho brother rapes him, and he just goes off alone leaving the ML and his bro behind. He reaches one of his friend/fling's houses but no one is at home. It's new year's eve and he just gives up and goes to sleep, when someone rings the doorbell and calls him 'brother'. He's on edge cause of the rape but of all people it turns out to be his cousin returned from the military, who thanks him for sending him there for it made him a better person.
I don't know why but these 2 scenes just stuck with me. Like finding something surprisingly emotional and non-dogblooded in a story that's clichéd and toxic yet a guilty pleasure.
Also, author is the same one who wrote Wu Chang Jie, I'm dead.