That's why minors shouldn't be reading shit like that and shouldn't be taking what the adult babies comment under the stories seriously. "Character growth" after the ml literally being a rapist Like, the only growth here is mc becoming coerced due to stockholm syndrome, and therefore less outwardly punished since he's now an obedient little doll. People should call dark stories what they are, deprived and dark, instead of viewing them through flowery lenses just because they can't handle that what they read is what it is.
I am also reading the novel... and it is fucked up.. Like, I really thought this is omegaverse since ML and that manager kept talking about MC carrying a baby to associate it with him eating, sleeping a lot, having high libido in sex, even so far as to give him prenatal supplements again for the baby...
and also that unsettling car sex they will have..

I’m on chapter 4 I’m not even finished it holy shit this man is so fucked. He raped him so much that he had a fucking seizure. The fucking ml even calls what he did rape also the dick sucking part, we don’t see it here but he does it so much and so forcefully that he vomits up blood. U guys this is not for the faint of heart like holy shit. The mc is genuinely so fucking sad and like basically treating this guy like a serial killer. Like it’s so bad and this poor dude is so emotionally traumatized by his childhood and everything that just because he treats him well when he is not RAPING HIM he is just accepting it like he resigned. And this is just chapter 4