I don't enjoy reading the MC with the ML. ML is an asshole who has no charm at all and it's painful, I had to scroll their recent smutt scene because it made me feel so gross. It's not coming off consensual or wanted and it really bothers me. I wish they left the smutt out honestly, the story is interesting but the rape is really killing it for me.
Ps for those who don't agree in earlier chapters he said he knows he can't disobey or refuse him. It's a power dynamic that is questionable, if not outright being abused. Let's not forget Luhak HAS KILLED the MC in the past for failing the empire as he sees it.
Strangely enough this made me a bit LESS suspicious of Doha? We've seen him kill the "villager" guy and he's been shady, but it could be that he really was trying to play the game too and the others were "in the way" of him, so he took their tapes so they wouldn't remember? Why Bada has his and doesn't remember Doha doing this is the question...










You know what? No. Bottom is a piece of and I'm tired of everyone in the comments acting like that reaction was in ANY way valid. Projecting his paranoia and shitty behavior onto other people when he hasn't been lied to isn't okay. As a person with many issues related to abandonment and trust, I say with assurance it's not okay to hurt people because you have trauma. He's humiliated him in front of everyone twice now, tried to literally fw subordinate girl, all while seducing the top in private. He doesn't deserve sympathy at this point. Not saying the top is innocent obviously, just annoyed at those giving excuses for the bottom.