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But I'm so concerned about what he means by 'you're so fucked, seyeong' at the end of ch 41. Does he mean that about his unhealthy attachment towards him snowballing into something real or is he running a reverse scam on him but irl. Oof. I'm intrigued.

I wonder if writing this the author reached some point of self awareness about the backstory

He sleeps with his lawyer that he is in overwhelming love with lmaooo

Have the same energy as dudes who say 'shes not a child she's a 3000 year old dragon' meanwhile said character acts like a child.

I always find narratives like these very iffy. They skirt past grooming accusations by ensuring the younger person is the initiator and desirous of a relationship and showing that the older does everything in their power to deny that relationship until they're pushed to a point, relent and grow to be romantically involved with someone they've raised since that person was a child/in childlike state (usagi drop blueprint). I don't think the author is a pedo for doing this, but this trope definitely eeks me out.

As for the weird comments saying 'imagine complaining on an illegal site' I think media criticism should flourish in all spaces because it helps create conversations about narratives that endure in the wider culture of storytelling, regardless of where the conversation takes place. By their logic itself, criticising a media work on this website has no tangible effect on the author themselves, and instead remains purely amongst audience, with whom I believe these conversations should be had in the first place. I hope fans like myself who find this backstory repugnant will not engage directly with the author on a personal level. They are free to do as they wish with their narrative, and readers are free to criticise them without causing them actual harm or mental agony.

I am a fan of the present day dynamics of the couple in this manhwa, so will continue to read it. However, looking at the raws definitely makes me feel freaked with why the author chose this specific backstory when they could've written another equally impactful backstory with just as pervasive but more positive tropes.

But who cares right, after all, we're on an illegal site anyway. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Just to ensure that the slightest human decency from a consistently sexually violent and generally aggressive man makes him fall in love is unforseen levels of crazy.

Goofy ass family lmao

How he was not only forced to deal with his stalker himself, the whole world saw his stalker as his significant other, which is a repugnant thing for any victim to experience. He didn't even harm the dude. Fuck the dad fr. He deserved to lose the elections.

When these two try to do anything it becomes a dorm wide event. Everybody is trying their best to be supportive it's funny as hell. A sex ed class about gay sex? ijbol

Put the pen down mingwa. Put the pen down.

Lends you into a false sense of security about the nature of the story. Every story beat here is so well executed and hard hitting. Even as a child, Parvell has a horrid choice to make: to let the people dock and infect his kingdom, or ensure the disease never enters through the most brutal way possible. In a time where one had no alternative due to regressive medicine (the world feels very much set in a parallel dark ages period), there is unfortunately nothing wrong (in a machiavellian sense) in his choices. Regardless, he will now, ever since childhood, carry blood on his hands, and will do so unrepentantly.

On another side note, it's crazy that as a bastard his rep is so bad people will hear him save his brother, and on witnessing him playing a funeral March, would rather see it as celebration for imminent death than lamentation/processing a possible tragedy. That's a child madam.