
Except the bear seme and the yandere surgeon seme, all the other Semes were just downright piece of garbages. I am honestly surprised their ukes stayed with them despite everything. All the time while reading the stories i prayed that the ukes would grow some backbone and have even self respect to dump the seme, even if its for a short while to teach them a lesson. The main uke was dumber than a shoujo manga heroine and it literally hurt my head to see him acting so dumb and spineless everytime. This manga contained some of the most toxic couples i've seen in bls. Kunimasa is now in my top 3 shitty seme list. I kept expcting that he would have some character development but he honestly got worse as the story went on. If this was real life, his and the other ukes would be getting LOTS of therapy.
What is it with manga authors and their ukes/semes? Literally all of them have semes that complete assholes and ukes that are so weak, spinless and without an ounce of self respect. Easily accepting cheating by their seme, being mistreated, being raped, being abused physically, mentally, verbally and emotionally. Rape and sexual assaults are so easily brushed off like nothing. I have read more than a thousand bls over the years and this concept still surprises me. I don't understand why these things are so normalised even if its fiction. More so because its fiction, you have the power to create a story/character according to your wish. Maybe its a difference in culture but it still astonishes me, even after all these years of reading bl.
Worse part is i can't stop reading despite all this. I am so used to it now that i have become desensitised. To me seeing an uke being raped or horribly mistreated seems so normal now when a few years back i would stay up nights thinking about it. I love bl so much but i wish this culture of normalizing rape and abuse would stop. For once i wish to read a story where the abuser actually gets punished or pay the consequences for their actions. But stories like that are so rare and hard to find.

I literally agree all of your statements. In fact, this story is one of the I consider a classical yaoi. Promise, I like the theme but I do not like the characterization. One instance is the pairing.
In fact, most of the characters are STRAIGHT being paired for each other. I seriously hate it.
Another is the fucking sort of homophobia of that fucking character.

Lmao I agree with you and it concerns me. We've literally got to a point the semes we think are not downright pieces of garbage are literally the bear seme, who actually raped the uke in the beginning (if I remember right) and the Yandere surgeon seme, who planned to impregnate the uke for years to get a hold of him, and was even planning to force him to abort when he thought the child wasn't his. That's how low our standards got for the pairings of this manga, can't help but find it tragically funny.

This is just my opinion but the last arc with all the drama shit was so unnecessary tbh. It honestly ruined the whole flow of the story for me. This story went from 100 to 0 real quick for me. Its good as a one time read but i definitely wouldn't read it again, ever, especially the later chapters. If you're looking for something fluffy or sweet to read then this ain't the story for ya or maybe it is...idk.

Currently on chapter 1 and i don't understand the FL's logic. Her goal is a quiet and stable life so she decides to marry the emperor, who fyi is fated to marry the heroine and she already knows what disastrous ending that will have. But she still goes ahead and decides to marry the emperor anyway? I mean Even if she become friends with the herione, what's the guarantee that the herione will feel the same way? there's no way any woman would be happy with their husband having another wife. They will quickly want to get rid of the other woman. Why not just marry some duke or find another guy to have a stable and quiet life with? The logic is soooo weird, i swear. But eh, i am only on chapter 1 so let's see how it goes.

She actually wanted to live a comfortable unemployed life and the best way was to become the empress consort in she doesn't even need to do the royal work which the empress has to do and she decided to never love emperor so she wouldn't have felt jealous if emperor decided to marry the heroin and if she married the Duke or other noble then she was bound to do the duties which land upon the mistress of the house..

Idk, i feel kinda bad for Dylan. But yeah i can also see where Wendy is coming from, its too late now for them to save their relationship. The only thing i can hope for now is for Dylan to end up with someone nice who loves him with all her heart. My boy certainly deserves it.
Also idk if its just me but i really disliked the crown prince. No comments about the ML. He seems pretty bland.
Ugh, poor Yul. He seems so mentally and emotionally unstable that i couldn't help but feel bad for him. I wasn't really expecting to empathise with him but as the story progressed, i found myself drawn towards him, especially during the last few chapters. As dumb as it sounds, i feel more pity towards him than the victim. Idk why but i always find myself drawn to broken and deranged characters like him. Seeing him crying honestly just broke my heart. I wanted to hug him amd tell him that everything was gonna be fine. I wish we could've seen more of his journey and see him finally move on from Sian. It doesn't matter if he ends up with someone or not but it certainly would've been nice to see him happy and at peace.
Finally someone I could agree to