The more we learn about wonwoo’s family the more I wish he had gone no contact. They seem awful and then to be forced to put your homophobic bro up for some nights despite your shit mother and abusive father doing fuck all is insulting. The homophobic bro only came around after being gifted something priceless even then it was disingenuous. Fuck wonwoo’s family.
I don’t even know if I should feel vindicated that my previous post about this manwha being the same tired toxic ml and cowardly MC who will be forcibly be roped into some twisted obsession turned out accurate. It’s like all these writers truly can’t think of anything original and rely on the same tried and true romanticized toxic dynamic because it sold for BJ Alex, Painter of the Night, Man of Virture etc and now the genre can only make similar plots because it’s the cycle of writer and readers only writing and consuming these types of abusive works.
The fact that the ML kidnaps, rapes, and hold hostage within a span of 24 hours the “mother” of his all but certain secret love child and for this plot to progress to a romance DESPITE this is some real brain dead delusions. I’m done. How do people defend this shit as EnTertaining
So we are getting your typical reunion story with a typical piece of shit ML. Plus a scenario that makes zero sense in why someone would resume a relationship with someone who’s actively fucking someone close to MC and will contextualize the ML as your standard hyper sexual with little feelings but somehow our MC is “special” because reasons and MC can’t truly stay away from ML despite the blaring red flags that make it quite obvious ML will be an emotional manipulator/sexual pest. Throw in some likely rape or coercive sex spurred on by blackmail of some sort and there you have it. Here’s to hoping I’m wrong.
So the plot is this poor guy was raped against his will and in order to survive he’s going to have to have sexual contact against his will to live many more times. Yeah…
I honesly wish you could just get more than just the embarrassing slim amount of sexual BL manwhas that didn’t include coercion or rape.Here I was thinking ohh I can get into this and yet again another non consented sexual encounter that will later become romanticized. Hooray.
Why do authors in Korea write college educated main characters to be so brain dead in manwhas like it’s baffling that these adults have such little social/self awareness, common sense, and ability to logically thought process. It’s not even endearing. It’s like watching an adult sized child be placed in these hyper sexualized narratives and being comforted that a child acquired a parental romantic partner. Like this is across the board both straight and gay in infantilizing adults and their romantic/sexual ending being the culmination and reward to their ability to even grow as a person. It’s utterly bizarre. Like I get the miscommunication but this is just going beyond into self induced at this point.
What is with these underworld playboy is punished by going to earth only to continue to be a sex pest and be rewarded with a virgin’s love plot? I mean in general who even enjoys this type of dynamic so much to point of seeing some dickhead be redeemed by more sex how is this romantic it’s so unrealistic it’s head scratching.
The servant x master turned romance never really come across romantic realistically. Either there’s a significant power imbalance or the servant is really only going along with the demands or whims of the master because they’ve been conditioned to or see it as a duty to make their master “happy” and if that happiness is coveting their servant then it’s just an add on expected duty. You don’t really know for certain if the servant ever had a choice or they’ve convinced themselves they considered their ability to choose in its entirety with the result being the master as priority and meaning of self worth.
How is the very first chapter drunk rape. For fuck’s sake, can’t these authors actually write without some sort of SA involved?!
Seriously what is the mother doing why won’t she put her son in therapy. I simply don’t understand the refusal to write this as an option. Realistically if someone takes their own life statistically those close to them have a higher risk of self harm or worse! If you ever think someone you know or love is in trouble please reach out to them don’t simply ignore or avoid the situation. This plot is seriously stressing me out. I don’t think I could accept this plot ending with the power of romantic love conquers all especially with a realistic depiction of the various forms of unaddressed mental health. It would undermine the entire plot. For those living in the US dial 988 should you or someone ever need to. <3
Mr. Kang’s reaction is actually realistic. I’m surprised by how readers are this upset by how things proceeded because the author chose to ground the story in even a little bit of reality. I’m actually more surprised the author went this route because Mr Kang is entirely right. This is such a cute story I had expected the author to go the “cute route” and have a saccharine romanticized response of ignoring how both Mr Kang and Yiyoung’s age gap and life experiences is the elephant in the room. I made this comment before that while I love this story truthfully these two wouldn’t end up together if not for the powers of BL and a die hard audience who loves pretty boys getting dicked down by a steaming hot Daddy. But I’m fine with that irrational combo lol.
I really love this but I also don’t love the ideas of putting your life on hold for someone for that long a time. I mean that’s a long time.
What’s frustrating about the plot is while it’s amazing for properly showing the ebbs and flows of mental health and depression there has never been a mention of actual therapy.
I like this plot like I really do. But realistically they just wouldn’t work with this much of an age difference and extreme life experience and that’s reinforced by this latest chapter 19. Yiyoung would be extremely insecure having never been with anyone prior and his need to meet the standards of his much older partner would mean growing up faster than he needs to grow into himself and make the messy mistakes that actually come with his age and the growing pains of your twenties. Literally look at what’s happening with Sophie turner and Joe Jonas* for this very reason, I kind of wish we had a time skip with Yiyoung in his actual 30s before the two of them had become a thing but it is what it is. I still love this plot given how “healthy” compared anything else that’s come out lately, but it certainly isn’t realistic.
Edit: I believe Yiyoung has “dated” before but I don’t think he’s been physical with anyone before Daehyung likely
This is very cliche. Playboy is taught love. Virgin is taught sex.
I don’t even find this sexy it’s kind of terrifying. And with the translation being confusing it doesn’t help in establishing what’s actually happening. All I see is a down on his luck guy falsely informed on a either a “easy robbery/ beat down” only to be brutally raped by some monster and later fall in love with this monstrosity because reasons….
The whole plot is garbage. From the dumb young master allowing his piece of shit crush to crawl his way back into his life after how poorly he treated and abused him. To an older brother who deeply wronged his younger brother and now suffers being raped and blackmailed by a half brother who is the spawn of human waste. The plot is utter garbage.
I really don’t understand what the author has the Ulysses and Randolph side story. You know it’s fan service at its peak for its straight cis female readers when Ulysses’s harem of men who we learned he acquired out of sport through your standard manipulation and underhanded methods that when a stereotypical masculine presenting dominate characters displays readers call foul but when a femme character does it- further playing into the very real stereotypes of “dangerous predatory” gay language surrounding men unable to hide their more obvious sexual inclination- it’s seen as a great achievement to be celebrated. Worse Ulysses has actually physically and sexually assaulted Randolph an act that got a previous shitty blond king assassinated for his harem of sexually dominated playthings subjected to regularly. It’s ironic that Ulysses is a direct juxtaposition to the Demonic king but he gets his own side story and is celebrated for it. It’s gross but ultimately is so expected why am I even bothering myself, but I do want to point out to readers that this subplot is just as problematic as the main story we so angrily sided with in hope for a predator’s demise, but here is celebrated.