I understand your point. Just like you, I also don’t see Aaron hurting Yujin. So let’s have some faith and wait for the next chapter. At the end, Yujin might cave in the Aaron like he always has. There might be a toxic aspect to their relationship rn since both loves and cares for each other more than they care about themselves. That’s why Aaron felt hurt about Yujin leaving and why Yujin left in the first place. But, I don’t think it’ll extend to SA and physical abuse like other manwhas.
Like, what the fuck are these people saying? “Why are you complaining about SA?” Bro, I genuinely can’t even count how many times we have to ask, “Does this BL have SA?” because it’s THAT common now. Just because authors have the freedom to add SA doesn’t mean readers want to see it. People have become desensitized because authors keep throwing it into stories and everyone is expected to accept it.
And the same people saying “it’s fiction, we’re not desensitized, you just can’t handle it” are literally the ones telling others to “get used to it.” Bro, if you’re so desensitized that SA barely bothers you anymore, just say that. You can’t claim fiction has no effect while simultaneously arguing that everyone should become desensitized to it. If readers consistently dropped stories over unnecessary SA, maybe authors wouldn’t keep treating it like some mandatory BL trope. Let people criticize it instead of telling them to fuck off from the genre.
a lot of people are saying how i should stop reading because apparently this is normal. im sorry what? just because it's there doesn't mean it's right. what do you even mean by that? this trope should change, more so when we have such stories like our sunny days, king's maker (to think this is was SO long ago), and others that portray a fairly healthy relationship. look, there are stories that ensue a violent relationship, and i do steer clear of them. because yeah it makes sense, stories with underground crime tropes, prison tropes, etc etc may have rape and all that violence. but in a story like this, where they clearly love each other, you want me to be okay with one of them raping the other? this isn't the kind of story where rape would be the natural outcome, no. like am i to believe that aaron, who loves yujin more than himself probably, is going to find him after YEARS, when he was almost getting raped, and then bring him back for another violent encounter? that's just forced plot point atp, and bad writing. you don't know how to write reunions so you choose the one that most yaois do, have rape in them. and people are so used to this that they don't even care anymore, thinking that oh yeah this is normal. it's maddening to think honestly.