
A manhwa that started with a dirty cop raping a florist has no business being this cute.

I think it’s definitely worth the read, if only for the art alone lol I mean, it is a rapist to lover’s trope, so keep that in mind, but this is one of the only things I’ve read where the gong actually realizes what he did was horrible, he only has himself to blame and he can’t expect anything, not even kindness, from the uke. I don’t know how the author will pull it together (I swear whenever I praise something they f it up the next day lol) but coupled with the Uke’s backstory, etc there’s a lot of room for nuance and subtext.

My man, MY MAN, all of this bullsh*t could be avoided if literally anyone in this manhwa respected Yeonho enough to tell him even a smidge of the obvious plan young master has going on. Look I’m not saying young master is AS bad as his dad but he certainly ain’t good.
Dad is obvious about his treatment of Yeonho as his possession and son tries to act righteous while obviously viewing and treating Yeonho as beneath him. Classic choice between a turd sandwich and a douche.

Bro, bro, BRRROOO! Reading this novel, I realized that my fictional line doesn’t seem to be rape or imprisonment but fuck boys….And it just gets worse from there. I swear I was literally yelling at the book: “that’s classic f-boy behavior, don’t fall for it!” Spoiler- he fell for it….
All of the authors 188 novel’s follow a similar pattern but this is the only one I truly felt was a BE- it never felt like Shao Qun learned his lesson and poor Chengxiu just gave up after realizing every effort he made was futile. Crematorium novels work when the gong is scummy but devoted, the gong suffers and learns his lesson, there’s a comparable power balance between the two and the shou chooses to be the gong of his own free will- literally everyone of those conditions was not met. I had to keep putting it down because it was legitimately uncomfortable to read. The way it portrayed an abusive relationship based on unequal power imbalances was so accurate, from the way other’s treated him, to the way society viewed his relationship and his inner thoughts; it was just fucking bleak man.
Bro, I don’t trust a single muthaf*cka in that game…