You've convinced me not to read this thank you
I understand your concern and I do agree it's messed up to include slavery into manwhas like this like it's a normal thing but she doesn't groom him or minipulate him she actually wanted him to not be obsessed with her if she treated him well so she pretended to be abusive and was going to let him be free after helping him disguised as an old lady lol. I do half agree with your comment tho in a sense.
Do you even hear yourself? “She pretended to be abusive”??? That’s emotional manipulation. The biggest issue I have with her since I haven’t read the rest of the manhwa is her train of thoughts abt him such as, “He def has a dangerous ability. However, if I take good care of him, wouldn’t he end up being good? At the very least, he won’t live a sad life and turn into a villain.” Her reasoning for saving him screams savior complex to me. She’s not saving him bc enslaving children is wrong, (huge emphasis here abt the intentions behind her actions) but bc she automatically assumes that he will end up as a bad person without her intervention, so she wants to save him in order to literally groom him into her ideal version of him. Just bc someone does smth good doesn’t mean their intentions are good. Her intentions are manipulative and arrogant and what’s worse is that she doesn’t even realize this bc she believes herself to be an inherently good person. What’s even more disgusting is how in chapter 56 she categorizes him as the male slave who becomes obsessed with their savior (aka her) and has this entire montage of weird flowers and shit of this trope like she’s fucking romanticizing it. The way she treats the matter so lightly is my issue with her. I don’t expect her to abolish slavery, but for a protag reincarnated from a version of our modern world, her line of thinking is fucked up.
What also doesn’t make sense is how at the end of the chapter, she decides that she’ll buy him but won’t raise him. Meaning… She’s basically planning on neglecting him bc she doesn’t want him to become the “obsessed male slave” trope she imagines him to be in her fantasy instead of properly raising him so he can learn how to overcome his trauma and not develop attachment issues. There’s literally no excuse for her intentions. Neglect is still abuse even if it’s not physical.
Yeah sorry I didn't mean to downgrade her emotional abuse in any way I always forget she is from the modern era lmao so there really is no justification for her actions. I personally was only reading this to pass time. ( not to downgrade your point any further because it is very valid) but I also believe her godlike or stereotype behaviour is the main plot point of the manwha so the expectations for her to treat everyone in the world like real people wasn't really expected. Sorry for responding again im not disagreeing with you either just giving another perspective.
Sorry, I should properly apologize to you, I shouldn’t have been so rude to you. I get what you mean now, I originally thought you were trying to justify her intentions towards the ML which is why I was so aggressive towards you. It makes sense why she would treat the ppl around her like fictional characters considering that she was reincarnated into a novel.
Its all g i thought your points were very articulate and you were completely justified. I should've explained myself more lol.
I decided to drop this manhwa at chapter 56 despite the high ratings due to how the MC treats slavery and regards the purple eyed boy being trafficked at a black market auction she’s attending with her older brothers. It makes sense for her family to not care about the morality of an auction selling child slaves since they’re written to be villainistic, but the MC is from a version of our world in the modern era and should not he okay with this at all in any aspect despite believing that she’s in a novel, so she has no excuse with her messed up line of thinking. She basically thinks of the boy as an animal to be tamed and wants to raise him for her own benefit, then pats her own back like a hypocrite for supposedly saving him from a life of being used as a tool, despite her literally planning to both groom him (she’s an adult in a child’s body) and use him as a tool! The only difference is that she’s gonna treat him better…
I don’t understand why there’s so many OIs that include slavery in their stories only to completely brush it under the rug. It barely contributes to the actual plot either. I hate how many protags will treat it far too lightly for what it truly is. I get that it’s primarily meant to be focused on romance/child care (for this particular manhwa), but there’s really no excuse for authors to use slavery as a meaningless plot device like this.