The thing is, this story doesn't give a crap about what we consider more likely: whether a victim of sex traffic would grow to love her "forced husband and baby" or not. This story has it so that in the end she falls for him and wants to sleep with him willingly, with feelings deep enough that she hates the very idea of him ever "replacing her" with another woman after she leaves. I don't know about Stickholm syndrome, other than the fact that she's not blaming her current feelings on that: to her, her current feelings are real. So much so, that now she feels torn between that "love" and the one for her mother. That being so, her child has become important and cherished enough, that she's even dreaming of seeing it grow up... So if she herself doesn't see the baby as a miserable product of abuse, why do you ask us to do that?
I get your point and because in the end this is a story of some kind of dark twisted fetish (e.g the trafficking, breeding, e.t.c) but I just wrote this for people to not fall 100% for the propoganda of this manhwa (because i saw so many comments thirsting over the male lead, saying it's just her fault and that if they were her they would do better - literally wtf??- that kinda stuff). I guess this is just a criticism of these kinds of manhwas in general because it's so obvious that this is some kind of morally corrupt fetish content. And I know this is just smut fap material but I still think it's important to look at the bigger picture of what kind of plot is being put out here because it's disturbing.
I don't think this depiction of Roth during his marriage to Ianna is really honest or accurate. He was forced into marrying her as well and did it for her sake because he knew she was told she'd only be sent home of she did that. he didn't force himself on her in their marriage and was ultimately a very good and considerate husband who was doing what he could to make the situation as good for her as possible. He did wrong her by not telling her she needed her clothes to return home, but she had just told him she'd lost her clothes so he thought that option was gone and it might've hurt her more than anything else to reveal she'd lost her only way to return by losing them. He never forced a baby onto her. They'd slept together only at her desire to do so, and he only tried to get her pregnant when she wanted to have a baby. Things actually would've been easier for her if a child is all he wanted out of her because he would've just gotten her pregnant and fulfilled the deal for her without her needing to convince him she wanted a child out of love.
It wasn't until after Ianna left that he went insane, though I can forgive him forcing himself on Anna their first time because he didn't realize there was an actual person. He would go in that room to take hallucogenic drugs so he could imagine sleeping with his wife, and suddenly there's a woman that is identical to her there? He thought it was part of the hallucination. After, believing it was his wife he wanted revenge because he believed she'd completely deceived him, worked with his father for his father's revenge over the death of his mother, used him, thrust a child onto him, then abandoned them. he was wrong in his actions at that point, but he was also insane. In the novel, he didn't know about her journal at first, why she left or how it troubled her, that she really loved him. Just the parts of his actions he saw for himself.
It's not really fetish content. It's psychological. Some people find stories where you have to think deeper into the characters and their actions more entertaining.
at first i felt so bad for her but tbh... she's right where she wants to be. also some of you are sounding a little misogynistic blaming everything on her. realistically speaking, she was basically sex trafficked into this world to give demons a baby, no one that she loves is there and obviously this world is completely different from our modern one with modern technology, appliances, health, e.t.c. wouldn't you also do everything in your power to get back to your world?? Obviously, her using ml's feelings and abandoning her child is morally wrong but it's disgusting how some of the comments here make it sound like she's the only crazy one/ the one with the most fault in all of this. also another thing people are forgetting is that her mom was sick, old and dying that made her extra desperate to go back to her to say one last thing before she died. i'm not sure if she and her mom were on good terms but it doesnt matter when you're mom is dying in the end. and controversial opinion, anyone saying they would choose a child they were forced to have in order to leave a sex trrafficking situation 100% over their own mother is insane. sorry not sorry.