The author had three billion ways to redeem the seme but they chose to make him worse??? I thought he was supposed to be different from the uke's ex! But this is just a "who can manipulate him better" competition, and clearly there is no fucking consequence for being a manipulate rapist in this story! Because the ex just disappears completely after ch 20, the seme just keeps doing whatever he wants to mc and the third guy just acts as if he didn't take advantage of a highly intoxicated person! And do you want to know what's worse? Min hyuk is the only one who shows ANY remorse for taking advantage of the mc, like???
I feel like the MC has lost most of his original personality? It's not blatantly obvious but I feel like he used to be more shrewd and clever than this, he used to push the plot but now it seems like the plot is just dragging him around like a ragdoll, he is literally going from a country to another just to be played around by the seme who apparently just knows every piece of information and plot point they need to solve this whole situation, btw the seme is such an asshole, he says that he is not making the son pay for his father's sins but he still drugs him, rapes him, uses him for his own gain, traps him in a contractual hell and threatens his friend. like be for real man.
Also the power imbalance is just so absolutely staggering between them that I can't imagine the uke ever being happy in their relationship, they can't afford to trust eachother and yet you want me to cheer for their "love"? The ml can simply do whatever he wants to MC, there is no mutualism in this.
Well, I think that was because of helplessness.
Before this whole fiasco started, he was barely able to cope with all of it, being witty and shrewd was okay too because the other party also won't try to push more. But, then he met this titan class bulldozer snake of an ML. What do you feel when every move you have considered executing were actually inside his calculation? Every one of it.
I'm so happy very rarely do I find sane bl enjoyers. I found it so weird that MC all the sudden loses sense with seme ever since he got on the Cruise. I really dislike it when authors are so inconsistent with their characters personalities or design. It's also just really disappointing because I was hoping for a smart and thorough planning MC. Like for example why was he scared of seme after he lied about knowing that one guy at the illegal gambling ring. What does he have to be scared about it just doesn't make sense.
I've read the spoilers and all I can say is godspeed to the people who read this, but I'm jumping out, I know this is a redeem story for the seme but man, just reading what the uke went through because of him and the people around him... And now we see him falling in love with his "past" abuser... Yikers
And the way ml treats MC feels yucky too, it feels like his atonement is more a search for redemption than a sincere attempt to make up for his past mistakes, it doesn't really feel like love but a race to get to the end, the prize being tje forgiveness of someone who doesn't even remenber the past. On that note the ML doesn't even attempt to explain the situation to MC! He is being so cryptic yet so blatantly obvious!
He is taking pictures of her right after she changed her clothes???? Ughhh weird vibes!!! Why did the author turn her into a child?!?! The story could've still worked if she had her adult body, there was literally no need for this.