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yea raga is way wayy better there’s more romance in it i rmb when i was getting back into bl codename anastasia and passion was trending on tiktok so i read both novels bro even zhenya was more likable than ilay i think i stopped reading passion after when taeui starts to fall in love with ilay bc this shit just makes no sense

I just started passion raga and thought about passion and why I dropped it. Why do people like passion and why do people like illay. I just don't understand. To me it just seems like illay is a dick and is constantly raping taeui and then people think that it's romantic. Is it the plot, I feel like it's not that good and then it becomes really weird about him being the god of luck or something. The art is pretty good from memory but not amazing and the smut is fine but nothing super good. I just don't see how illay can be seen as romantic and then some reason taeui falls in love with him but, like why? Also from raga (I don't remember this in orginal) it seems illay also raped xinlu?
I mean, to me it's just so disgusting and I've read plenty of shitty edgy stuff but people seem to think that this is the creme de la creme and somehow really deep. Like at least mii in the box is just edgy and people acknowledge that it's only interesting because of that or something like 17 sai is about a real life case and how women are treated in japan or something like a crown of thorns is just mindless smut.
Anyway, for those that have read ahead is raga worth reading or is it just stupid edgy stuff? I'm at the bit where illay takes xinlu's eye out.