Emanresuym's manga / #rape(24)

The ML is raped by his fiance's little brother and he carries this trauma with him to the end of the manga. He marries and divorces the rapists sister, she carries a lot of guilt too about it and overcompensates with protectiveness. ML befriends M1 whom also has sexual trauma and obv likes ML, but unable to do anything about it at first. ML then sleeps with M2 who has his own closeted issues with his rich fam. Both M1 and M2 overcome their issues, but all their traumas interplay a bit and cause drama. There is a threesome, but it was a bit sad as its clearly a love triangle at that point and destroys them all a bit. Ultimately ML confronts his trauma and builds himself back up. Open ended on the romance bit, but the message of the story seems to be about loving yourself and living your own life before bringing others in so it serves the story. Some hilarious scenes, great portrayal of trauma and some great/relateable lines. It's not a favourite for enjoyment reasons, but for how unique and strong the manga is. Now i need something light and fluffy.

Ch50. Korean intelligence operative uke does whatever it takes to keep his flawless mission success rate. He is the only remaining boy in his family after everyone else died as soldiers etc, so he keeps his job secret from mum. He is given a mission undercover to find out if a weapon exists in russia; his mission goes wrong from the start as seme already onto him but uke doesnt find out until later. Instead he believes seme is partner sent by korea to help him, but psycho (a little like him). Train scene where seme picks up women and entices uke into a threesome, but then starts coming onto uke (literally lol). And then bedroom scene, where uke gets drugged by the rich old man theyre investigating and uke then finds out semes real identity and is raped relentlessly before dumped in a river. On reflection, seme tried or considered killing uke many times, but was entertained by playing with his life instead. Uke regroups and uses the seme villain speech where he revealed secrets right before his death (that didnt eventuate) to find the weapon code in semes bedroom. Season 1 ended (novel exists; uke gonna blow that place up, attempt to flee to embassy but seme gonna catch him etc. A second novel was released in 2024, which might one day get adapted).