Yeah that's probably for the best.
This had potential but unfortunately , it went down the shitty awful stupid route.
I seriously don't understand why the original writer (bcz I'm pretty sure this has a novel) didn't make the seme a simp, or a caring loving patient but horny male lead, or he seduces Cheongwoo (MC) into becoming his personal forever "fairy" or even going down a darker route , worse punishments, harsher confinement, making Cheongwoo feel even more alone & isolated .
Bcz right now, it's stagnated.
It makes no fckn sense to treat someone you need to literally survive & not die prematurely, the way ML has been treating MC who still wants to run away and reunite with beloved grandma.
Like cmon

I skipped straight to chapter 24 because I'm the type of person who read the smut scenes first sometimes, so I don't know how bad he was in the beginning. But reading so far he is not that bad, the latest chapter was kinda cute even.