thanks i always avoided this story because of the fear of this happening (god knows how many times sh*t like that get thrown at my face and i have to keep reading because i need to know how it ends) they seriously need to put the trigger warning in those story synopsis.
Me too but I decided to give it a chance since I really liked the art - glad I did and glad the MC didn’t suffer. If u don’t mind the ML being like a yellow-ish flag I recommend it.
All the MLs are mostly red flag (or even black flag hhhh) so yellow-ish is like a saint at this point (can't tell you how many times i find myself thankful when they don't keep r-ing most of the time...god some stories really lowered my standard of MLs
“Does something questionable” its just straight up rape bro
Valid - wrote this quickly on a whim. Yes, quite frankly he semi traumatized the bottom after that.
I meant that considering it’s kinda “mafia/illegal business” setting it’s not the worst case where’s he’s being put through every horror. It’s just a semi shitty ML.
How did we genuinely get to a point where an ml being a rapist is considered “semi-bad”? This is why everyone clowns on this genre its so cooked
Lowkey have a theory - since these stories are written by primarily women in countries where SA isn’t taken seriously let alone properly prosecuted, they don’t conceptualize SA like this as an issue, if anything they romanticize it becuz someone being pushy or “doing it for their own good” is as good as some of them can take. This can also apply to men writers too.
And of course this also varies by by writer, not every writer has the same set of standards - but there is no denying there is a majority here.
They don’t function under societal norms of other countries. Hell sometimes even in America straight women still write slop, but it’s mostly confined to their niche group (is booktok even considered niche anymore? They’re just v bubbled). There is some backlash here but even then there’s typically no movement for it.
Now apply that to a Korean writer on a place like Korea where that Korean actor pedophile wasn’t properly prosecuted, got a slap on the wrist from his country, and actively prosecuted and succeeded in oppressing the people who spoke out against him.
Sorry weird tangent I know - but I think that’s how we got here with the “a ML being shit.”
I would probably be less judgemental if it wasnt a bunch of women authors writing gay men like this, its such a common stereotype and it really sucks.
I was worried with the whole drug thing and the gangster situation that the bottom would get slut out of straight up SA’d but it never really happens. It’s like the author was afraid (I was too) of going that far and at most he gets nakified by thugs and smacked, but the ML saves him before anything else happens.
If anything, it’s pretty inoffensive when it comes to bottom abuse - the only one who does something questionable is the top in that one chapter.
Anyway,
I really liked the story overall. The ending and resolution is a little weak, I feel like the bottom never got the proper explanation for some things he deserved but honestly it’s for the best since it kept the story light.
There wa also things that it didn’t clarify for us as readers, but honestly, again it’s for the best since it really did keep the story super enjoyable.
Was the ghost thing a lil out of place and weird? Sure.
Was the drug resolution way too quick and easy?
Yeah.
That’s what made it good lmao.