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Are there ANY limits to Seungho's horrible, disgusting behaviour? Not only he raped NK for n-hundred time, he continued in front of someone else. And Mr Kim is like a father figure, the only one who genuinely cares about SH and he kept going. Imagine the disrespect. I'm amazed people can still find excuses for this man.

...so I often notice a lot of the readers here hyping up byeonduck's skills a LOT, with meta writers waxing lyrical about her genius (and hey it's all subjective, so it's fine to feel her writing is still good), but i do think, since a lot of ppl seem pretty upset/are experiencing genuine stress from ch 62, that it's okay to recognize that this story isn't some grand classic in the making, that there are mistakes in her writing decisions, there are cliches, things that don't land well, pacing issues, whatever.

it's nothing to get so upset about you go harass her on twitter of course, and it's also absolutely fine to vent your frustration in whatever spaces are welcome to it (and if you have constructive crit that's also good to let authors know). i know it can be disappointing when you build up this ideal in your head about what a story is and then that doesn't pan out, and it's fine to drop a series for that or lowering expectations for it.

my own perspective is that i came into this recognizing it would probably be a kind of trashy erotica with good art, and there are glimmers of potential for unique writing, but there are some pretty obvious mis-steps that reduce it back to, well, trashy erotica (and there's nothing wrong with that necessarily if that's what you want); this chapter's most obvious problem being the too conveniently thrown-in death threat to prevent clear communication when it would be much easier/more believable to just show NK experiencing PTSD/him having a panic attack after, y'know, almost being murdered (not that that would prevent the victim blaming going on in the comments....).

as it stands now, it's a pretty typical the Weepy MC Who Occasionally Shows Backbone with his Hot, Troubled, and Abusive (but it's okay bc he's Sad and Loves Him and Might Change One Day) Boyfriend kind of yaoi fare unfortunately, and no amount of hopeful meta writing can undo the fact that the only thing NK and SH have together rn is really good physical chemistry (as has been pointed out, the two don't really talk or do much together outside having sex lmao).