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oh goodie another plot requiring superhuman levels of suspension of disbelief
overwhelmingly mid
the spiral downward of the first 25~ chapters made sense bc ml is a self-centered arrogant prick. hell even the mc's extreme reaction to being holed up in that bedroom made total sense. it was fucking sad but it made sense. but ml did absolutely nothing to deserve the change. within 2 chapters mc went from ***literally*** "i'm going to become a doll with no emotions so this man can just rape my lifeless body over and over" to "oh teehee i'm falling in love"
the whiplash
and bruh him telling you he can only get hard for you is not fucking romantic?????? neither is taking care of you when you're sick??? author had two realistic options: have the story get a whole lot darker and keep the doll scene (which would have been fine but at that point you're at Even If You Don't Love Me territory which is clearly not the story the author wanted to tell) or cut it and lead the ml into a reasonable redemption arc. it suffered bc they tried to do both.
it definitely had too many ideas. the poor traumatized person indebted to a shitty prince ceo is one trope, the doll thing being out of place drama escalation which fell flat due to lack of follow-through, then them bonding over the bait missions which was legitimately cute but ruined because of *waves vaguely at everything that happened before.* the backstory with the mom and whole sacrifice business was actually interesting, but handled flippantly, esp towards the end. it seemed like rather than fully resolving any one thread they just kept tying new threads into it to overlap the old ones, which just ended up making everything feel muddy and unresolved. i won't even get into the ending, ugh.
the art was good (and got better, esp if you read their previous work), you can really tell the artist worked their ass off. and it's not a BAD story. just had some serious issues. take your brain out and enjoy the few sex scenes that weren't dubcon at best and the drama ig.

these freaks lmao

what lmao
i'm usually pretty good at following even the dumbest of "plot twists" but the dragon suddenly getting all pissy was so out of left field
author-nim was rushed that week apparently

aaaahhhhh these two are the best

they keep mentioning vampy boy getting bigger
younger devoted crybaby top??? hmmm???

genuinely do not understand why this has the rating it does, and i really wish uploaders would tag properly. i don't read psychological stuff and would have skipped this had i known it was about 17 different levels of fucked up
author really said "i want to draw an entire manga around what if there was an omegaverse where people weren't immune to family members' pheremones." which like, you don't need to follow through on the intrusive thought my friend
i spent the entire story until the very very end completely and utterly confused as to which twin was which--which was the alpha/omega, which was the one being mean. at least the ending sort of cleared it up
frankly towa "i can fix them" something-or-another was just a lamp, the entire story could have proceeded just fine with any other catalyst for the breakdown of the twins' relationship
recognize this for what it is: a chilling and sad exploration of a deeply fucked up fictional relationship.
clearly this is someone who can craft a decent (if not terribly cliche) story, but this one shoulda stayed in the box

dropped at ch59
i haven't been this angry at a manhwa since Even if You Don't Love Me.
so let's recap
s1 was okay.
s2 either feels like an entirely different author or author took their brain out of their head. it was such narrative whiplash it was like an entirely different genre.
kind and naive rich young man turned into slave, raped repeatedly and held captive by his insane childhood friend who actively ruined his life in every possible way, turning him cold and heartless and proving that being a good person is a Bad Thing.
insane shitty fuckass childhood friend stays winning until FUCKING CHAPTER 50
the once-adorable namwoo spends until ch50 or whatever either suffering or just not there at all.
seriously why was he even in the story. i guess he and the mc reunite or whatever but i just don't care anymore bc by ch59 their vibes are so off it's just uncomfortable to read. mc is traumatized in the most clumsily-excuted and cliche way and namwoo has always been a lamp, a weak foil to fuckass's Plot Cruelty and that still has not changed. it's not balanced and so it just seems like fuckass was the main character. the author spent so much time on his backstory and trauma and motivations that there almost seemed like no other point to the other characters. this is an example of someone who spent way too much time justifying their villain's motivations and then wanted everyone to know.
I was just skipping chapter after chapter after chapter of the fuckass raping the mc over and over again. the amount of time the author spent on that was so ludicrous it became borderline fetishistic or just lazy filler. whatever story was sandwiched in between of allathat could have been wrapped up in like, half a chapter. at least fucking SKIP some of it we KNOW he's being raped day and night do i have to see it every single goddamned time? I literally could not give less of a flying fuck for the literal rapist's pathetic whiny internal monologue about how much he wants to be called fucking hyungnim jesus christ. wrap. it. up.
and then yay mc wins and he's not a slave anymore! but no THAT'S what we get half a chapter of. then his mother dies and he almost dies too. at that point i really had had it. bro what is this writing.
there's no break to the shit piled on the characters. The pacing doesn't give you a second to breathe and has no variation from repeated tragedy. it ends up feeling dramatic but in a campy, clownish, forced way rather than based out of relatable reactions to the narrative. even the good things that happen are either rushed or straight up paid for in blood. there is no happiness in this universe, only zuul.
even whatever political intrigue slipped in was vague and ill-researched. why exactly did mc's entire family, to include the repeatedly narratively-established extremely honorable and talented and well known family members up and down the tree, do to lose their entire fortune and their political standing, to the point of the utter destruction of an entire branch of said tree?? s1 made SO MUCH to-do about how sought-after mc and his family were and how everybody respected them and were squabbling for a chance to lick their boots and it changed in like two whole chapters. what faction was he a part of?? what appeal did he put up that pissed off the emporer or whatever SO bad?? did they call the emperor a doody-head??
at this point whatever ending the author comes to will always feel anticlimactic. it will always feel massively unbalanced by almost a hundred chapters (and who the fuck knows what horrors s3 has in store for us--i will certainly never know bc i won't be reading it) of the kind of trauma that would in any universe that made sense make people just end it.
authors like this piss me off. just write the tragedy you wanted to write and have everyone die.
if you enjoy tragic stories, I truly hope you found this a good one. but i don't, and i wasted my time reading it

also jumping in to say this needed to be longer

honestly I get so distracted whenever uncle priest herbal essences shows up onscreen i forget what's happening but happy pride to us for the gift of say gex

I had to hide my face for like a full minute to regain my composure after the whole hand gesture misunderstanding
also praying for mc's asshole bc 3+ years of unrequited love is about to run a train on it