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1/5 Stars — Honest Review
Nah seriously, even one star is too high for this one. I felt so choked -while-, and frustrated -after- reading this shell of a story. Nevermind the usual tropes (sad past, paying of father’s debts, angst, lots of unmotivated, emotionless smut, pregnancy, yada yada) the whole plot and the dynamics between all of the involved characters utterly lacks any motivation, depth, emotion and logic. The „couple“ (sorry, already forgot their names) never develop any kind of positive relationship, or any relationship at all. It‘s just one typical dramatic situation after another and lots of red flags.
I still don’t get how banging the son of the men who selled out your familiy‘s hide-out is any kind of revenge, even less so, if you simply _know_ that aforementioned son was barely a kid at that time, was attached to you as a „Hyung“ and clearly has no clue what his father did. Quite the opposite: You know that this same son is struggling paying of his father’s debts, just to keep his grandfathers cemetery plot (I didn’t quite understand that explanation though).
Nothing much happens, apart from lots of smut and „mysterious“ business talk between the top and his subordinate, although everyone and their mother knows exactly what they are doing and how they are trying to achieve their revenge.
On that note: The smut was unbearable, since it _always_ felt forced (which it was, no matter how much the top’s saying „i’m not forcing you to do it with me“, but at the same time he‘s cornering him so much and leaves him with no choice BUT to, quote, spread his legs) and (to the end) lacked any kind of intimacy or emotions, I skipped all of it.
The dream scene with the grandfather and the unborn child was just cruel and the author clearly placed it as a tear jerker for us readers — Honestly, it was the only moment I emphasized with the ML for a second, cause it’s just too damn sad and any human with an ounce of emotion would feel sorry after reading that.
But the worst part of this hell of a story is, that the ML actually developed feelings for the top (although I think it was just stockholms) and actually went back to this mofo of an asshole.
I seriously hated the ending the most. If it ended with them just going their separate ways, I would’ve liked it way better.
Anyway, not recommending reading this, except if you want to feel extremely frustrated.