Considering a soul pair can only recognize each other as such after the omega's first heat has come, and it was said Beryl was just a token mate, I wouldn't be surprised if the twist is going to be that Shaia is Beryl's soul pair after all. I suspect Daath is going to give Shaia an earful when he finds out about Shaia's second condition, and at how insensitive Shaia is behaving towards Beryl.
I was thinking the same thing. Both daath and juda will tear him apart when they realise how he is treating his ‘potential’ mate.
Little BDSM lesson here: The SM in BDSM doesn't stand for the dom and sub (I suspect the author thought it was Slave/Master), it's actually for the term sadomasochism (or Sadism/Masochism). The BDSM acronym represents the main categories of BDSM play: Bondage and Discipline (BD), Dominance and Submission (DS), Sadism and Masochism (SM). And from the context, it should really be noted that the dynamic between the doms and subs in this manga is actually more of a Master/slave one, not a Dom/sub one. Someone can be a Dom without being a Master and someone can be a sub without being a slave. The main difference is that you usually see this "orders are absolute" aspect in a Master/slave relationship, whereas in a D/s relationship, the sub has all of the control and chooses to submit/obey, and what's allowed between the two is thoroughly negotiated and agreed upon, and safe words are established and used. The Dom can't tell the sub to do anything they want and expect to be obeyed, and the sub can refuse to obey an order and end the play whenever they want, which any decent and normal Dom would immediately comply with. In a Master/slave relationship though, the slave usually gives up full control to the Master and the slave is expected to obey their Master completely, with the expectation that the Master will act with their slave's wellbeing as their top priority. So even if the slave doesn't necessarily want to obey an order, they would be expected to because they agreed to giving up their control when they entered the relationship. In real-life BDSM relationships though, the complete rule of the Master isn't really an absolute part of the relationship, it's just typical. An M/s relationship could still have limits imposed by the slave or the option to negotiate if something comes up; everyone has to be happy in these relationships or they don't survive, so the details of the relationship are defined by the people taking part in it, and there's no law that says it can't be customized to fit the Master AND slave's needs. The entire foundation of BDSM is built upon clear and open communication between all parties and the necessity of all participants giving their informed consent prior to anything happening. Something like "the dom's orders are absolute and even if the sub hates it they can't disobey" is purely a fictional concept. Which is fine, it's fiction, we can indulge in the taboo of it while understanding that it's only a fantasy and in reality it would not be healthy or sane. There's nothing wrong with enjoying the manga, just don't read it and think it's an accurate depiction of the Dom/sub dynamic. Okay, BDSM lesson over, i'm hopping off my soap box now.
This is accurate for the real world/real life.
For Dom/sub universe stories though (which honestly is just similar to omegaverse sans commands) the sub physically cannot resist the dom's commands. While the universe uses real word everyday terms from BDSM, it is still very much encased in nonrealistic fictional elements such as needing to take suppressants, glares, not being able to hold off on release for too long, etc.
thank you for explaining it nicely!! when I saw that it was dom/sub universe, I got really confused because I know that's not how bdsm works and that the story seems to be making d/s seem a bit ,, forced(?) and was vv similar to omegaverse stories
Pretty sure it's 150,000 won, not 15 million. You can see the numbers in the picture with half of the character for won next to it. So if anyone was curious, the book probably costs around $123 (based on current exchange rate of about 1224 ₩ to the $) and not over $12,000. Still really glad there's an update!
I haven't looked ahead at the raws so I have no clue if i'm even in the ball park, but here's the theory i'm gonna put out there: the cat spirit Na-on is Heejoo and when Yellow Dragon (YD) set time back the last time she was reset as well and started her dream life as a cat, then met Dojin who gave her a name and took care of her, which led to her decision to give up the option of becoming emperor (she mentioned after meeting Dojin again that she was chosen to be emperor before him, although I don't think that necessarily means she would have been YD's emperor, it seems more like she was just eligible to become one when she died). Instead she wished for Dojin to come back to life and chose to take YD's place to die for Dojin to thank him for caring for her and cremating her so her spirit could find peace, which is how she was able to became a guardian spirit and be in YD's dream. And because of that, it circumvented her original timeline so she didn't meet Black Tortoise (BT) and become his emperor (well, empress technically, but that's not important). And that is where everything got messed up. Since YD didn't continue the pattern of dying for Dojin and Na-on did instead of becoming an emperor, someone else had to take Na-on's place to fill the void and that's why the rapey asshole became emperor. I don't know how it works with each god receiving an emperor, but i'm gonna guess that since she wanted to save Dojin and Dojin is YD's emperor, that's why she met with YD instead of BT. But since she was originally supposed to be BT's emperor, that may be why she's able to enter their world when a spirit isn't supposed to be able to unless they're one of the 12 animal spirits. But this is all just conjecture, take it with a grain of salt. Although if I was right it'd be pretty ironic (and sad) that BT causes all this pain and destruction because he blames YD for losing his empress when in reality it was his own empress who caused all of it by doing something kind for someone who was kind to her.
I need to see Chahyeon and Eui-hyeon get together!!