Taking a historical topic like the Civil War and using that time period as the setting of a BL, I knew it wasn't going to end well lol
I think it would have been a better direction to have created a unique world and setting while using inspiration from pieces of history instead of the actual real world history itself.
I had to force myself to finish this instead of dropping it.
I knew it was gonna be toxic. I signed up knowing it'd be toxic. I knew I would have a deep hate-love towards Jaekyung (still do). The 'redemption arc' was lacking in depth imo, and was way too quick of a turn around from toxic af to lovey dovey.
From toxic POS to 'I have seen the errors of my way' in just a short span of several months after being a POS for years. A realistic version would've been several years later, after maybe some therapy, and finally sitting there with a 'Huh... maybe I WAS the problem' epiphany.