For the legal backlash in Korea - I’ve only heard people talk about that (I don’t live in Asia so I don’t know how true it is).
For the dog getting changed to a dildo (or “robotic arm” - basically an automated dildo machine used a lot in irl BDSM) that actually did happen because people freaked out about it. I couldn’t find any links on it, but I’ve read both versions of that scene on lilyofthevalley when that was still up. I think it was the dog at first, that instant freak out happened, then the author changed it before it could seriously impact them. There’s not a whole lot you can find on it just based on the subject matter it is and how small the novel’s reading group would have been compared to other bigger named stories/comics/franchise groups online
Glad to see people are still just spreading hearsay about the dog stuff . If you’re going to make bold statements then you should at least preface it by saying that they’re only rumors and unconfirmed. Bestiality in Korean novels is absolutely a thing. But manhwa sites have slightly stricter regulations. I don’t know anymore than anybody else here but my THEORY is that it was changed specifically for the manhwa release. Assuming this is true, I am not sure if it’s because the extra chapters will be adapted and the artist was like “hell no I’m not drawing dog dick” or because the story’s pivot into the mainstream meant that the author didn’t want to alienate manhwa readers with zoophilia. But the bestiality chapters were allegedly alive and well until right around the manhwa announcement. I remember using the official site back in 2024 and seeing that the dog chapters were unavailable. But they at least existed long enough for someone to grab the original chapters to translate them on cherrymist dot cafe.
Well other than rape being normalised in lot of genres (ive read straight manhwas and gls ones as well and found that rape is just...there) but ig for this story w/o the rape then the story just wont exist or make sense? Bcs it all started since one of the charac raped the other, the story is meant to be dark, twisted and disgusting and there's alot of people who read stuff like these and if not, more darker and twisted as a coping mechanism so maybe thats why

I read the dog scene..