istg this is so true. I personally treated the rape as a bad dream because of how shitty it was for the plot. everything feels rushed cause it is. I say just ignore the rape and enjoy the rest of the ride even though that fuckass chapter left the worst fucking after taste a meal can give you :/// Korean readers really liked the secretary dude as far as I know and there wasn't any backlash from their side (at least not as much as the english speaking community). They actually were rooting for him more than ML...

I’ve marinated it because people were crashing out with how season 1 ended but now I that I’ve read it I really don’t understand how the author just brushed off the rape as if it was nothing?? I feel like there wasn’t enough impact and consequences for it and the author quickly just wanted to do damage control/patch things up because of the backlash from readers with the whole sequence because everything feels too fucking rushed.