Holy based response, I'm following
Lolol yww
Also find it funny people call it cheating when like.... The concubine is his legal wife. She is just a maid. If we're going to talk about cheating and ntr... She is the affair partner, not the concubine.
I also do think people have gotten to comfortable with not being uncomfortable. A bad thing or miscommunication or a drama plot point happening in a story is SUPPOSED to make you uncomfortable! If a characters actions bother you .. congratulations the author did their job.
If you're uncomfortable in a scene where the MC is made to watch a mad king sleep with his wife .. congratulations you felt exactly what the author wanted you to.
The problem comes when these kids throw a fit and claim some moral "this is evil and shouldn't be read by anyone" grandstanding.
And maybe my current covid infected brain isn't explaining this right but my god... Why do we want every character to do the right perfect thing all the time every time???
That makes for such a boring story !!!
Drama is good! Angst is good!
I literally already forgot the ntr chapter happened, why is everyone still hung up on it?
Writing whole novels in the comments about how much you dislike something instead of just moving on shows immaturity and insecurity.
Calling people bitches and being horribly nasty Does show immaturity.
If you can't handle scenes of concubines, don't read historical fiction where concubines are integral to the story.
(Also going to mention, reverse harem is literally a genre. There are many very popular stories where women have their own harems)
Plus the entire point of that scene was for him to realize he only liked her.
He's not been with anyone else since.
Idk if y'all just don't know how characters work, but they're supposed to grow, change and develop as the story does.
An emperor with a madness that makes him kill recklessly and have no compassion for others, is going to be someone who does shitty things as he heals from his madness.
He's even mellowed out a lot in the recent chapters.
Don't like don't read, is a great thing to remember here. Remember kids, a drawing that does bad or not nice things, is not an endorsement of those actions but merely a plot device/character foil/metaphor/following a story theme etc etc.
You are well within your right to have an opinion on a story, you're even allowed to dislike it.
However....If you are not mature enough to handle when a drawing does something distasteful, enough to where you spew intense rage filled abusive language at other readers, then you should not be reading this kind of content.
And you should certainly not be nasty to other readers when they try to explain the plot or say "hey it's ok you don't have to read this".
You are not morally superior bc you dislike what a drawing did. You are especially not morally superior when calling people bitches when they call you out on your behavior.