So after a solid 8-9 hour reading session i finished the main story of the novel and im just gonna leave some spoilers for those who need it, i do recommend the novel but i had issues with it.
First of all Maximus is of course end game and hes probably one of the greenest flags ive seen in a while, very refreshing.
Now as for tiberius, he does regret and suffer for what hes done but i would describe it less like genuine guilt and love for hadi and more like self pity and obsession. Later in the story he will kidnap hadi and keep him as a slave even raping him. It is not explicit rape but the scenes make it very clear that hadi really doesnt like it and he basically disossiates the whole time while tiberius does whatever he wants.
Hes honestly never repentant beyond his own selfish desires and the scene where hadi forgives him leaves a bitter taste in my mouth only soothed knowing he will spend the rest of his life miserable.
Tiberius NEEDS to be thrown in a brazen bull istg, man its been long since i last hated a fictional character this much. He better SUFFER
Trust me, you’ll enjoy his suffering later
Kind of a shame hes just gonna become skinny, wouldve been neat to see a bl where one of the main characters has a different body type.
On behalf of every literate person residing on this planet i ask you to never ever pick up a pen again
I think my problem with these stories is that the rapist always ends up with the victim. I get that ml “atones” (still marks mc without explaining the whole truth though which i think shows how hes still a very selfish person.) but i just think that atonement would have been better and much more impactful if they went their seperate ways at the end. Its okay to have a story where a horrible person atones for their sins but dont make them get together with their rape victim like.
I had the same problem with cozy obsession, except i would argue the ml in cozy obsession did even more horrible things and didnt do nearly as much to atone.
....are you my soulmate?
I get why this sudden turn in the story comes as a suprise to so many people, lord knows i fucking hate it. But the red flags were there slready, i mean remember the side plot from season 3 where a guy got fuckin beaten over the head, kidnapped and raped anf the story basically treated it as “got what he deserved”, i remember that making me very upset when i read it and it felt so out of character for thid story. All of this trash seems like it stemmed from the same part of the authors brain.
Edit it was season 4 epilogue 10
Like dont get me wrong the dude sucked big time but its genuinely disgusting the way the author treated it like he deserved to be raped and confined
Yes I thought the same, it was a weird turn :/
Within just three chapters this author depicted violent rape, made the victim comfort the attacker and invented a new flavor of homophobia!
Manwha authors should be studied, i feel like a lot could be learned about the effects of brain damage if we did!
The amount of people here defending guwon saying he was “doing the right thing” and theyre ungrateful are actually delusional, guwon killed men women and children alike, we saw it with the doctor, he didnt even give him the option to refuse he just killed his wife and kids and took him. “They could just leave if theyre unhappy” dude guwon probably killed anyone that they had left outside, the only thing left for them would be to seek revenge or some kind of freedom from both their own guilt and guwon.
I like guwon, at the end of the day i dont think he could even tell what he was doing wrong, but lets not kid ourselves by saying the townsfolk were ungrateful and are shitty for “backstabbing” the guy that killed their friends and family.
I swear you people would fawn over anyone and ignore their wrongdoings as long as theyre hot.
Y'all acting they wouldn't die anyway if Guwon didn't take them under his protection and leave them for zombies I feel like you're somehow forgetting that they're in an apocalypse and most of the options are certain death
Least they wouldnt die in paralyzing survivors guilt, just because someone is likely to die doesnt make it okay to kill them, sure the doctors wife and kids and even him wouldve died eventually, but they would have had more time together, weeks or even months. Instead that was cruelly stripped away from him by guwon.