I’ve spent some time reading through all the comments on this manhwa, and I’m genuinely disgusted. When the hell did so many openly racist, bigoted people enter a space like this?
The BL community has plenty of flaws, but this is genuinely one of the first times I’ve seen so many people openly defend something like this.
Let’s start with this: it is okay for an author to face criticism when they do something wrong. This author clearly understood that what they wrote was a bad decision, which is why the comic was cancelled. People are allowed to be upset, especially when the subject matter is something as historically painful and deeply rooted as slavery and colonial violence. That doesn’t mean death threats are okay, they absolutely aren’t, but dismissing everyone who was uncomfortable as “snowflakes” is ridiculous. You do not have to baby the author. They’re a grown adult who made a poor creative decision, and criticism is part of publishing your work.
And as for the people defending the premise… I genuinely don’t understand it.
This wasn’t just an “age gap” or “problematic romance.” The story was built around a relationship between a white former slave owner and a Native American man in the aftermath of the American Civil War. That isn’t just “dark fiction, its taking a real history of oppression, genocide, forced displacement, and dehumanisation and turning it into the backdrop for a romantic BL fantasy.
People keep saying, “It’s just fiction,” but fiction isn’t created in a vacuum. Authors can absolutely explore horrific periods of history, but there is a massive difference between depicting historical atrocities and romanticising the power imbalance that came from them.
And before anyone says, “Well, every country has experienced slavery,” exactly. That’s why you shouldn’t do this to anyone’s history. It wouldn’t be okay if the enslaved group were African, Indigenous, Irish, Korean, Chinese, or anyone else. It doesn’t suddenly become acceptable because the victims are Native American. Real people suffered through these atrocities, and those histories still affect communities today.
No one is saying authors can’t write difficult or uncomfortable subjects. They absolutely can. But if you choose to write a romance built on one of history’s most brutal systems of oppression, you cannot act surprised when people find it distasteful or offensive.
The amount of people mocking people in the comments, calling others “too sensitive,” and acting like basic empathy is censorship has honestly been more disturbing than the cancellation itself.
Criticism is not censorship. People expressing disgust is not “cancel culture.” If you publish something publicly, people are allowed to tell you they think it’s in poor taste. That’s how art has always worked.
You don’t have to agree with the criticism, but pretending people are irrational for finding this premise offensive says far more about you than it does about them.
Look at the end of the day, a story about such a heavy, horrific historical time period definitely needs to be written by someone who had a full understanding of this period and the nuances involved and that’s even without trying to place a romance like this one in there (which personally is an insane thing to do imo)
This author is clearly NOT someone who is suitable for that, and for what its worth, I’m glad they’ve realised that, I just really hope they try and think about why exactly they even thought it was appropriate to do so in the first place. In the 21st century, it is simply not acceptable and utterly disgusting to try and romanticise such a tragic part of American history, especially with the continued subjugation of POC rights in the current political climate. And authors need to do better, not write whatever slop comes to mind
Completely agree with you, well said.
Does anyone know if this is completed? And if so, where I could find the raws?
Does anyone have a link for the raws?
It’s up to date. Raws are up until chapter 36, but here’s the link anyways
https://wfwf462.com/list?toon=75431
Thank you!!
Okay it doesn’t seem like there’s gonna be the who’s the daddy trope cuz he takes morning after pills in ch33.
But what the actual fuck is this comic man istg. It was genuinely so good and refreshing for a bit and now it’s j the same old rape slop I’m done
Ikr!? it was so good in the beginning the author just had to fuck this up!!! Ughhh
Do u have any more spoilers?
He takes pills and still cannot remember the promise. He also admits that he doesn't remember most stuff he said to hyundo back then. Then that omega was sent to him by hyundo to deliver shares transfer docs and shit and he smelled that omega's pheromones and knew hyundo keeps an omega around and he was jealous.
People are saying that they don’t like that Cheol is a bit of a loser but I lowkey think it’s great lol. There isn’t enough terrifying freak uke x loser seme out there and this scratches that itch perfectly imo. There’s tons of freak x freak out there if you want that but love this fr
Nah fr this the best part about it
SO TRUEEE
Please if you guys have ANY terrifying uke recs like these one I am begging you send them my way I need more of whatever this is in my life
Look to the right side of this page under where it says "These lists have this manga." Those are rec lists that include this series. I'm sure you can find something similar. Also, the author has another series called In the House of the Damned
Is that second one on here?! Tysm!
Yeah, it's on this site. It's completed too, but it's short.
Actually, on this site it goes by the name The Mansion Summoned by Ghosts
Wait can someone please explain the spider and butterfly symbolism please I’m really stupid
Its probably meant to say that the blue spider (Top) thought he caught his pray (bottom: through the memory loose he is finally his and he can't have anyone because he doesn't remember all the people/places to run too) Meanwhile the blue spider fell for the trap of the red one. The red spider (bottom) shows him what he really wanted to get him hooked and we see it was all a trap everything was planned
Why’s it always the peakest stories that are so damn short I need like 60 more chapters
Genuinely one of the best I’ve ever read honestly