Reading this is just gets more sickening, it’s pretty obvious that ml was groomed/abused, it’s genuinely so horrible and disgusting. Looking at younger him broke my heart.
I want that old fucker dead in the most painful way possible, beat him then nurse him until he’s not on the cusps of death and beat him again and rinse and repeat. Death would be a mercy for him
The way the auther writes a realistic abuser with lister, from listening to people who have abusive parants it’s not always bad, there’s good moments with abusers, and that is what makes it so dangerous, lister is generally the worst character and I hate him but he’s written very well, I hope I see him dead.
I also like how they potrayed his sister- She still turned a blind eye and prioritised her own house over doing what was right. She knew her family relied on underhanded means and still stood by them. She saw the abuse Slan was facing as a sad but ultimately justified cost. Even her decision to marry Slan away was never about improving his conditions; it was about solidifying Lister’s position first and foremost. She only ever truly tried to fix things when there was no more room left to benefit (when she saw Listers undoing and the fact her house was on borrowed time and her being unabe to change things)
The downfall of their house was never about Slan; it was about who they were as people. The way they operated never allowed space for a real, strong foundation. Everything was built on avoidance, pride, and short‑term self‑preservation, so collapse was inevitable.
She represents a less acknowledged but equally harmful form of abuser: someone who may recognise the harm being done and even sympathise with the victim in front of them, but whose choice to enable the situation makes them just as complicit as the "main villains".
You couldn’t have said that better. Lysbet (if that’s how you spell it) was selfish to the end, in some aspects. while she wasn’t the physically abusive or verbally abusive, she kept mc in the cycle of abuse by allowing him to stay. She could’ve easily have gotten him out and Atleast to pay a fraction of her sins, but she didn’t. If anything her dying from illness is the mercy of not hurting mc but the death is payment for keeping him there.
That was a change I didn’t like in the manhwa. In the novel, Lysbett survives, and that feels much more punishing. She has to watch the consequences unfold, especially how the house’s collapse affects her children. Since she always acted for the sake of her loved ones (the house, Lister, her children) seeing their disgrace exposed and the burden they now carry becomes a harsher punishment than letting her die with any sense of hope or uncertainty. It also feels satisfying that the social stigma they placed on and weaponised against Slan becomes the exact thing that now holds them prisoner. They are seen as the "damaged goods" the same way Slan was once seen.











They were not mad enough at the twin WHAT???? Like how are you not mad at the fact that you slept with him thinking it was your boyfriend, honey you didn’t consent to have sex with the other twin beat him to death please!!
LITERALLY!!!!!!!