Yeah in one of the earlier chapters, the translator said that in a scene where they just kissed, in the novel, the ml actually raped him and that even in ch 1, the mc made a joke about raping the girl he has a crush on cuz he thought he was gonna die. I'm glad that in the manhua, they cut all that out. It's a bummer though. If the novel was like the manhua, I'd love to read it.
It is very old school BL in that sense, I think this story was written before chinas censorship, it’s very explicit. ML does stuff to MC on his mind without his consent. Also MC gets assaulted by another dude later on but they don’t go all the way (if you think critically about it, it’s kinda painted as “let’s make ML look better in comparison to this other guy”). On “real” life I don’t remember if Hein assaulted MC (not that this makes him less worse for hacking into his mind to be a perv). I like that the novel is never boring, the action sequences are very well written and the leads develop a very power couple dynamic later on. Light spoilers but there’s an iconic arc where hein temporarily loses his memory and MC becomes a power bottom and bangs the hell out of him lol.

Broooo I can’t believe this got a manhua this was one of the first BL novels I ever read, I BEGGED 7 seas for a release of the novels, but since the content is so heavy I don’t know if they’ll be brave to license it lol also thanks translators for you amazing work I absolutely love this story